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A suspected radical Islamist was arrested today after injuring two policemen with a knife in front of the Tunisian parliament building, Interior Ministry said on Monday, reported Reuters.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) wants to carry out attacks in Germany and the security situation is "very serious", the head of the country's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) told a newspaper on April 10, adding that he knew of no concrete plot to strike. 

German police have shot dead a convicted Islamist in Berlin who stabbed a policewoman with a knife and seriously injured her, the BBC reported.

Police were called to Spandau district, in western Berlin, after reports that a man was wielding a knife in the street, threatening passers-by. The man seriously injured a female police officer before another officer shot and killed him.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has little love lost for Egypt?s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who he sees as a dictator that ousted the country?s democratically elected president in a military coup, and went on to stage-manage an election to give himself the appearance of being a democratic leader. Erdo?an is right, of course, because that is exactly what el-Sisi did. 

Syrian insurgents led by Islamist groups began a major offensive to gain full control of the divided northern city of Aleppo, a monitor and rebels said on July 2.

The fall of Syria's main commercial hub would be a major blow for President Bashar al-Assad, restricting his control mainly to a belt of territory stretching north from Damascus to the Mediterranean coast. 

Prime Minister Tony Abbott vowed Dec. 17 not to rest until he was assured Australians were safe, as he formally announced a review into the fatal Sydney cafe siege.
      

Tearful Sydney office workers and Muslim women in hijabs laid flowers Tuesday at the scene of a deadly siege, as an outpouring of grief and shock gripped the usually easy-going harbour city.
     

At least two people were killed as heavily armed Australian police early Tuesday dramatically stormed a central Sydney cafe to end a day-long siege sparked when an Iranian-born Islamist took several people hostage.
      

A 20-year-old German man was sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in prison on Dec. 5 after he admitted joining Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Syria, in the first trial in Germany of a home-grown jihadi accused of membership of the insurgent group.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Aug. 11 Iraq had taken "a promising step forward" in designating a new prime minister, vowing to step up support for a new Iraqi government in a widening conflict that his administration had hoped to avoid.