News: Russian Media reported that on Saturday, November 1, the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov met with a delegation of the World Union of Muslim Scholars, headed by Sheikh Ali Muhiddin al-Karadagi. The General Secretary of the WUMS said that today's visit was the beginning of a long path. Earlier, the delegation of the World Union of Muslim Scholars visited Nalchik, where was the International Interfaith Conference "Traditional Religions: call…

News: BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State has executed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq, a tribal leader and security official said on Saturday, part of a mass killing campaign launched last week to break local resistance to the group's territorial advances. Tribal chief Sheikh Naeem al-Ga'oud told Reuters Islamic State had killed 50 members of Albu Nimr who were fleeing the group in Anbar Province on…

News: U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made his second trip to Somalia's capital on Wednesday October 29 2014, walking around the seaside airport complex in a dark business suit. Ban's fashion choices are not typically newsworthy but are significant in Mogadishu: On his trip in 2011, he wore a U.N.-branded bullet-proof vest. The fact that his security advisers did not insist on war-time protection on this trip - at least…

News: The last UK troops left Afghanistan on Monday, after the end of British combat operations, was announced the day before with Camp Bastion handed over to Afghan control. It marked the close of one of the longest campaigns in British military history, which has claimed the lives of 453 British servicemen and women. The British flag was lowered, along with the US and NATO flags, marking the end of…