Two British terror suspects - dubbed the Islamic State Beatles - charged in US over killing of Western hostages
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh are accused of being involved in a “brutal hostage-taking scheme”.
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Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh are accused of being involved in a “brutal hostage-taking scheme”.
Nash was found guilty in 2015 of murdering the two women, whose mutilated bodies were found in sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman 21 years ago.
Men, women and children in South Sudan have been shot, hacked to death with machetes and burnt alive.
Gerard Murphy writes about the prison in this extract from his book The Year of Disappearances.
There had been fears a serial killer was roaming the Anchorage trails, picking off one or two people at a time.
The man’s confessions may have solved a quadruple murder that baffled police and investigators for 13 years.
The country’s justice minister said the group’s leader told them they had to rape very young girls to be assured of supernatural protection.
Conor Behan DJs at gay club The George, and says that it’s important we recognise the Orlando attack was an attack on the LGBT community.
Syria’s state news agency SANA said at least 300 civilians were killed.
Tamara Samsonova was arrested on suspicion of poisoning a friend – and her diary details 10 other killings.
The Pope has condemned the killings as “senseless brutality”.
“The killer came here because there were foreigners. He wanted to kill foreigners, that’s for sure,” a waiter at the club said.
A potential motive was a dispute over parking spaces.
The photo features the Mona Lisa in a Hijab.
A psychiatric expert told the trial that the 38-year-old defendant had confessed to the killings.
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More than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad were shot and 14 were killed.
Chester D. Turner is Los Angeles’ most prolific killer.
Israeli air force have responded to the latest rocket attack by hitting 30 targets near Rafah.
TheJournal.ie spoke to a leading Israeli commentator, who fears for stability in the region after the latest round of bloodshed
The local government said, the bloodiest in a series of violent incidents blamed on radical separatist Muslims.
The 34-year-old father was rushed to hospital after being beaten with metal bars.
A priest and a mother of eight were among those shot dead by members of the British Army Parachute Regiment in 1971.
Fighting erupted in the Ramadi area on Monday, when security forces broke up an anti-government protest camp.
The identity of the suspect, who was himself injured according to Norwegian media, as well as the motives for the attack were not immediately clear.
This week’s Washington DC shootings brought to 36 the number of Americans killed in mass shootings in 2013.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are targeting oil facilities, foreigners and security forces.
The death toll is the highest since assaults in July near Baghdad.
After living in Afghanistan, I got to see first-hand what the people of that country go through, writes Noel Scanlon, who says he wishes he could be more optimistic about the country’s future.
A Lithuanian man in his mid-twenties has been charged with the murder of Jolanta Lubiene and the unlawful killing of her daughter Enrika.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Assad’s regime would not use chemical weapons as it is gaining an advantage against the rebels.
Robert Bales is accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers last year, and also faces six charges of attempted murder and seven of assault.
Transferring more weapons to Syria can only “exacerbate a hellish scenario for civilians” says Oxfam, who say extending the embargo would avoid fuelling an arms race.
11 bombings struck Baghdad, as well as the cities of Kirkuk and Tarmiyah.
Boston native, Larry Donnelly reflects on the the horrific events that happened at the Boston Marathon this week, saying he’s been heartened by the expressions of solidarity from countless Irish people who have such a special affinity with the most Irish city in the US.
Police still trying to discover motive behind shooting of three people in a rural area of Pennsylvania.
The conflict in Gaza is the latest to show the power of social networking – but online platforms need to examine the role they play, writes Jillian York.
Complaints range from not having a personal light and TV switch, censored phone calls, “screaming” prison mates and cold coffee.
The Justice Minister has said the “evil perpetrators have absolute no respect for human life” following the death of two men in Laois and Dublin. Both were shot in front of their children.