MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, July 30 (UPI) -- Nigerian military officials said a top leader of a fundamentalist Islamic sect was killed in fighting sparked by a raid on the group's compound.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, July 29 (UPI) -- A radical Islamic sect exchanged heavy gunfire overnight Wednesday with Nigerian government troops in the northern town of Maiduguri, witnesses said.
BRUSSELS, July 7 (UPI) -- The Indonesian government's allowing hard-line Islamic groups to shape policy could cause widespread unrest, a report by the International Crisis Group says.
ABUJA, Nigeria, March 30 (UPI) -- Nigerian health officials have opened treatment centers to cope with a measles epidemic that has claimed 165 lives in the past three months.
ALGIERS, Algeria, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Algeria sentenced the leader of an Islamist militant group to death for attacking Algerian security forces and civilians.
LONDON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- About 600 of the 1,350 mosques in Britain are run by the fundamentalist Muslim sect that provided the Taliban’s ideology, The Times of London reported.
COLORADO CITY, Ariz., July 13 (UPI) -- The state of Arizona has added eight felony counts to the list of charges against polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.
LONDON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- An investigation by the Sunday Times of London revealed a radical Islamic group in Britain that praised the London bombings and promoted terrorism.
PHOENIX, June 14 (UPI) -- The missing leader of a polygamous sect that broke away from the Mormon Church has been charged in Arizona with felony child sex abuse.
HONG KONG, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- China sentenced the leader of a banned Christian sect to death, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy in China said on Monday. Gong Shengliang,
