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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 18: A staffer takes notes as US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey testify before the House Armed Services Committee. (AFP)

1 New declassified documents show the US knew about the presence and the rise of Takfiri terrorists and the formation of the so-called ‘Islamic State’ in the Middle East.

2 The Takfiri terrorist group Boko Haram attacks Nigeria’s Borno state, killing several people and destroying dozens of homes.

3 An independent human rights group says three out of four Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds are living below the poverty line.

4 ISIL terrorists have killed at least 400 civilians in the Syrian city of Palmyra.

5 An independent human rights group says a large majority of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds is living below the poverty line.

6 Head of the Palestinian Authority's Prisoners Affairs Committee says Israeli interrogators intimidate inmates to force them into confessions.

7 A new media report shows fewer than half of Briton's top universities are monitoring the extent of sexual violence against students.

8 Human Rights Watch says US military service members who report sexual assault, frequently experience retaliation that goes unpunished.

9 Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has accepted defeat in the county's presidential run-off.

 


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