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Sexual jihad (Arabic: جهاد النكاح, romanized: jihad al-nikah) refers to the alleged practice in which women sympathetic to Jihadist extremism travel to war zones such as Syria and voluntarily offer themselves to be "married" to jihadist militants, often repeatedly and in temporary marriages, serving sexual comfort roles to help boost the fighters' morale.
SARC (from 2014) SLFA (from 2017) SLA-Unity; SLMJ; JEM (Jali) Supported by: South Sudan Chad (2005–2010) Eritrea (until 2008) Libya (until 2011) Uganda (until 2015) 2003 2011 Iraq War. Part of the Iraqi conflict. Invasion phase (2003) United States United Kingdom Australia Poland Peshmerga Supported by: Netherlands Italy Post-invasion (2003–11)
In Islamic law, marriage – or more specifically, the marriage contract – is called nikah, which already in the Quran is used exclusively to refer to the contract of marriage. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In the Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic , nikah is defined as "marriage; marriage contract; matrimony, wedlock". [ 12 ] (
2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine: War in Donbass: The Ukrainian government declares a unilateral one-day cease-fire in order to facilitate for a team of forensics experts and crash investigators to reach the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down two weeks ago, after days of delay caused by heavy fighting in the area.
13 July: The bodies of 12 men, presumably killed while captive, were found in Tawakkul village northeast of Baquba. [68] 16 July: Forty-two captured Iraqi soldiers were killed by IS in Awenat, south of Tikrit. [68] 15 July: A new attempt by the Iraqi Army to recapture Tikrit was repelled; 52 Iraqi soldiers and 40 IS members were killed in the ...
A car bomb killed 18 people, including women and children, in central Hama province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights organization. [10] [11] The New York Times reported that Islamic extremist groups in Syria with ties to al-Qaeda try to identify, recruit and train Americans and other Westerners who had traveled there to get them to carry out attacks when they return home.
Sahih Muslim permits marriage once a person reaches sexual maturity (i.e.: menstruation, voice changing, wet dreams) . [citation needed] Sexual maturity in Sharia law is typically understood to mean puberty. [36] At the same time, intercourse is forbidden until they are able to physically bear it. [37]
6 July – Yobe State school shooting – More than 42 were killed by Boko Haram gunmen in a school in Yobe. Boko Haram also attacked a police station and a bank in the town of Karim Lamido, killing three police officers. [14] [5] 27 July – 20 people were killed by Boko Haram in Baga. [5] 29 July – 12 people were killed by Boko Haram in ...