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• Caveat: Changing the custody of the Islamist Terrorists creates consequences

  Counter-extremism expert warns proposal, which has alarmed prison officials, because it could allow Islamic State to establish a structure in UK.

• Blogger Arrested for Posting Photos from KDF Attack

  Yassin Juma has been arrested and interrogated by the police. Police officers in Kenya have arrested a prominent blogger and former NTV journalist. According to sources, Yassin Juma has spent his second night at the Muthaiga Police Station in Nairobi, Kenya.

• Obama secures key vote to protect Iran nuclear deal in U.S. Congress

  President Barack Obama on Wednesday secured the 34th Senate vote needed to sustain a veto of any congressional resolution disapproving a nuclear deal with Iran, ensuring the accord will not fail in the U.S. Congress.

• Pakistan police say kill leader of banned sectarian group

  Pakistani police killed the leader of the sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, his two sons and 11 others on Wednesday in a shootout after gunmen attacked a police convoy and freed him as he was being moved, police said.

• Russian fighters, caught in Ukraine, cast adrift by Moscow

  From his hospital bed in the Ukrainian capital, Russian fighter Alexander Alexandrov feels abandoned by his country, its leaders and even the local Russian consul.

• Gun battle in ethnic Albanian region deepens Macedonian crisis

  Macedonia said on Sunday its police had wiped out a group of ethnic Albanian "terrorists" in a day-long gun battle that left at least 22 people dead at a moment of deep political crisis in the former Yugoslav republic.

• FBI has exemption to arrange payments to hostage-takers: U.S. sources

  While U.S. policy bans federal officials from doing business with kidnappers, the FBI for years has used a secret exemption to government rules to communicate with hostage-takers and sometimes send money to them, U.S. government sources said.

• Egypt lists top Brotherhood leader, 17 others as terrorists: state media

  Egypt's public prosecutor has listed the Muslim Brotherhood's leader and 17 other top members of the group as terrorists, state media said on Sunday, part of a sustained crackdown by the authorities on Islamists.

• South Florida brothers plead guilty to New York terror plot

  Two Pakistani-born brothers accused in a plot to detonate a bomb in New York City to avenge the deaths of people killed by drone attacks in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges on Thursday in Miami.

• American hostage Mueller's family, U.S. government say she is dead

  U.S. aid worker Kayla Mueller, held hostage by Islamic State militants for 18 months, is dead, her family said on Tuesday, but the circumstances were unclear and President Barack Obama vowed to hunt down the culprits.

• Obama lays out security strategy, warns against 'overreach'

  President Barack Obama released an updated national security strategy on Friday that committed the United States to lead on pressing world issues but reflected his cautious policy toward foreign intervention.

• Syria aims to 'flush out all terrorists' in 2015: PM

  Syria's prime minister said on Sunday the country wanted to drive all insurgents out of its territory in 2015 and was prepared to back any attempts to fight global militancy.

• Obama condemns 'barbaric murder' of U.S. hostage in Yemen

  President Barack Obama on Saturday condemned the "barbaric murder" by al Qaeda of U.S. hostage Luke Somers in Yemen during a rescue attempt by U.S. forces.

• Russian charged in Afghan attack pleads not guilty in U.S. court

  A former Russian army officer pleaded not guilty on Friday to terrorism charges for a 2009 attack on U.S. and Afghan forces, and a U.S. District Court judge set trial for April 2015.

• After victory in key Iraqi town, time for revenge

  After helping government forces break Islamic State's grip over a strategic town just south of Baghdad on Saturday, Shi'ite militias decided it was time for payback.