Egypt's descent into violent chaos entered a new phase on Saturday as the military-backed government signalled a plan to outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood, while troops cleared a Cairo mosque of Brotherhood supporters who were protesting against the removal of President Mohamed Morsi last month.
Parents like the father I spoke to are desperate to halt their children's descent into violent extremism, but they get little help and support from the government or anyone else.
Mr. Merah, a French citizen of Algerian descent, was a violent thug and self-proclaimed Al Qaeda sympathizer.
In May 2010, Israeli commandos raided a large flotilla and fatally shot nine protesters — eight Turkish citizens and an American citizen of Turkish descent — after meeting violent resistance on the deck of a Turkish passenger vessel.
Although you might imagine that this enforced intimacy with Williams's harrowing story of a violent rape and a woman's descent into madness would be excruciating or discomfiting, that's not really the case.
Many blame President Nicolás Maduro for the oil-rich country's swift descent into unrest, and violent protests demanding his resignation have rocked the capital for months on end.
Their leader, Jamil Mukulu, was arrested in 2015 and some former members say this marked the beginning of the group's descent from principled, albeit violent, ideology, to simple criminal slaughter.
TALLINN, Estonia — When the Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this Baltic seaport last month, they expected violent street protests by Estonians of Russian descent.
TALLINN, Estonia, May 24 — When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this bustling Baltic seaport last month, they expected violent street protests by Estonians of Russian descent.
