BBC News
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VIDEO: A history of calling Obama a Muslim September 18, 2015
After Donald Trump fails to correct one of his supporters calling Barack Obama a Muslim, we look back on the history of this phenomenon.
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VIDEO: Stars of the Frankfurt Motor Show September 18, 2015
As the Frankfurt Motor Show draws to a close, Theo Leggett looks at what you could be driving away after that big lottery win.
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VIDEO: Pianist of Yarmouk's journey to Europe September 18, 2015
Ayham al-Ahmad, the pianist of Yarmouk, records his journey, as he leaves Syria for Europe.
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VIDEO: Pressure on Zagreb reception centres September 18, 2015
The BBC's Christian reports from one of the registration centres in and around the Croatia capital Zagreb.
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VIDEO: Trump laughs off Obama 'Muslim' question September 18, 2015
Donald Trump is criticised for failing to correct a supporter who said US President Barack Obama was a Muslim and "not even an American".
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VIDEO: Turkey-PKK conflict 'escalating fast' September 18, 2015
The number of policemen and soldiers who have been killed in Turkey since a ceasefire with Kurdish militant group the PKK broke down in July, has risen to more than 120.
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VIDEO: German town 'running out of room' for migrants September 18, 2015
The BBC's Jenny Hill reports from the town of Rosenheim in Germany, where giant tents are being constructed to accommodate asylum seekers.
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VIDEO: Waxworks unveiled of F1 stars Vettel and Hamilton September 18, 2015
As Singapore's Formula 1 Grand Prix gets into gear, the BBC's Rico Hizon meets two of the top challengers, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel - in waxwork form.
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VIDEO: Motor racing hopeful, but no driving licence September 17, 2015
Kenyan Tejas Hirani has won 48 motor-racing championships despite being just 17 and not yet having a driving licence.
Russia
– ABU HAFS AL-URDUNI
Abu Hafs al-Urduni, whose real name is Farid Yusuf Amirat, was born in Jordan in 1973. He became an associate and lieutenant of Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Continue reading
– 16 MILITANTS KILLED IN THE CAUCASUS
Russian security forces in the southern region of Dagestan said, on Saturday 03/21/2009, they had ended an operation in which 16 Islamic militants and 5 security officers were killed. Continue reading
– AMIR MUAZ KILLED IN DAGESTAN
According to the Command of the Caucasus Emirate, Amir (commander) Muaz - Omar Sheykhulayev was killed in the course of fierce fighting, in the village of Leninkent, on 02/05/2009, along with three other militants. Continue reading
– GALASHKI RAID
On 09/19/2002 Ruslan Gelayev, with a force of about 150 men, conducted a large raid from his base in Pankisi Gorge, Georgia, on two villages in Ingushetia, Tarskoye and Galashki Continue reading
– 1999 DAGESTAN’S WAR
On 08/02/1999 a combined force of Islamic militants from Chechnya invaded the neighbor autonomy in the East – Dagestan. Continue reading
– RUSLAN GELAYEV
Khamzat Ruslan Gelayev was born in 1964, 10 years after his parents had returned from the Stalinist deportation of Chechens into Kazakhstan, in a village near Urus-Martan, about 50 km South of Chechnya’s capital Grozny. Continue reading
– NALCHIK SIEGE
On 01/24/2005 Muslim Atayev and six members of his group named ‘Yarmuk Jamaat’ seized a five-storied apartment block on the outskirts of Nalchik the capital of the autonomy of Kabardino-Balkaria in the Caucasus. Continue reading
– RASUL MAKASHARIPOV
Rasul Makasharipov was born in 1972 in South-Western Tsumadinsky District of Dagestan. The district is bordering Chechnya and inhabited by Avars, Muslims from Mongolian descent. Continue reading
– NAZRAN RAID
On 06/22/2004, Islamic groups, part of them from Chechnya and others from Ingushetia, launched a simultaneous pre-dawn raid on government buildings in Magas, the government compound on the outskirts of Nazran, the commercial capital of Ingushetia, Continue reading
– AKHMED KADYROV’S ASSASSINATION
On 05/09/2004, during a military parade in Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, a bomb exploded under the gallery where the Chechen pro-Russian President Akhmed Kadyrov and dignitaries were present. Continue reading