Indonesia's suffered a number of attacks in recent years. It has long struggled with rebel groups, particularly al-Qaeda affiliated Jemaah Islamiyah, and now ISIL, which has been recruiting in the region.
ISIL claimed responsibility for Sunday's attacks on three churches. Police say the suicide bombings were carried out by one family, including two children aged 9 and 12.
At least 13 people died and more than 40 wounded. ISIL has lost territory in Syria and Iraq, but it's been active in other countries. Can the group be stopped?
Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoom | Guests Rahima Abdulrahim - Executive director of the Habibie Center; Olivier Guitta - Managing Director of GlobalStrat consultancy firm; Greg Fealy - author of " Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook
US criticizes Saudi Arabia and Bahrain for lack of religious freedom. US President Donald Trump's administration says the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant group remains the biggest threat to religious freedom around the world. The US State Department says the murders of Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims at the hands of ISIL amounted to genocide.
The annual report says almost 80 percent of the world's population continues to live under threats limiting freedom to worship.
The countries criticised include US allies Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Al Jazeera's Mohammad Vall reports.
During a press conference with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, the US president offered his condolences to those affected by the Manchester attack and called those responsible ‘evil losers’. He added that the United States stood in ‘absolute solidarity’ with the people of the United Kingdom | * ‘We stand in solidarity’ – Trump leads global reaction to Manchester attack
In this week's UpFront, we speak to former FBI agent and counter-terrorism expert Ali Soufan on the potential consequences of President Donald Trump's Muslim ban.
In the Reality Check, Mehdi Hasan points out the hypocrisy of global leaders of nuclear powers on their ever-expanding nuclear arsenals.
And in the Arena, we debate whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is outmanoeuvring his political opponents both at home and abroad.
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists have destroyed part of a Roman theater and the legendary four-column structure ‘Tetrapylon’ in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syrian TV reports.
The race is over. Donald Trump is president-elect, defeating HIllary Clinton and putting a Republican back in the White House. The 2016 election campaign wasn’t pretty, but it was entertaining. But what's next?
Turkey is stepping up its military involvement in Syria, striking both ISIL and Kurdish fighters.The war in Syria is becoming increasingly complicated. Several factions and international alliances are fighting it out, both on the ground and in the air. Now, Kurdish areas in the north are being heavily targeted. The U.S is warning it won't hesitate to open fire on the Syrian army, if it continues to attack fighters from the U.S-backed Kurdish Syrian National Democratic Council in Hasaka. To the west of the city in Manbij, Turkish forces are attacking Kurdish YPG positions. The Turkish government accuses the YPG of being an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK. Turkey's armed forces has been at war with the PKK separatists for more than 20 years. But is intervention the answer to Turkish security concerns? And how can Turkey's changing policy affect the long running civil war?Presenter: Dareen AbughaidaGuests:Bilal Sambur, Professor of Social Sciences, Yildirim Beyazit University.Renad Mansour, Carnegie Middle East Center scholar.Dlawer Ala'aldeen, President, Middle East Research Institute.
French President Francois Hollande says the two armed men who took hostages at a church in Normandy had claimed allegiance to ISIL The men killed a priest and injured another person. Al Jazeera’s Emma Hayward reports.
Three seemingly coordinated suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia, at the heart of Islam, rounds off a deadly holy month of Ramadan. ISIL is yet to take responsibilty for three, seemingly coordinated suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia. The strikes on Monday at the heart of Islam rounds off a deadly holy month of Ramadan. ISIL fighters have claimed other attacks in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Bangladesh and Iraq. So, what's the message behind the strikes?
