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Akayed Ullah, inspired by Islamic State propaganda, was the chief victim of his attack, authorities said, with the pipe bomb he strapped to himself misfiring and leaving him with burns on his stomach. (Associated Press)

Trump: Chain migration to blame for attempted terrorist attack in NYC

By Stephen Dinan and Sally Persons - The Washington Times

This combo photo comprises of portraits of some of the Rohingya Muslim women taken during an interview with The Associated Press in November 2017 in Kutupalong and Gundum refugee camp in Bangladesh. They said they were raped by members of Myanmar's armed forces. The use of rape by Myanmar's armed forces has been sweeping and methodical, the AP found in interviews with 29 Rohingya Muslim women and girls now in Bangladesh. They were interviewed separately, come from a variety of villages in Myanmar and now live spread across several refugee camps in Bangladesh. The military has denied its soldiers raped any Rohingya women. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

21 Rohingya women recount rape by Myanmar armed forces

By KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017, photo, F, 22, who says she was raped by members of Myanmar's armed forces in June and again in September, cries as she speaks to The Associated Press in her tent in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. The Associated Press has found that the rape of Rohingya women by Myanmar's security forces has been sweeping and methodical. The AP interviewed 29 women and girls who say they were raped by Myanmar's armed forces, and found distinct patterns in their accounts, their assailants' uniforms and the details of the rapes themselves. The most common attack involved groups of soldiers storming into a house, beating any children inside and then beating and gang raping the women. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Rohingya women methodically raped by Myanmar’s armed forces

By KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, left, meets Pope Francis at the Apostolic Nunciature, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: Pope calls Myanmar refugees by Rohingya name

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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, left, meets Pope Francis at the Apostolic Nunciature, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope Francis to greet Rohingya refugees at Bangladesh peace prayer

By Nicole Winfield and Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid, left, holds hands with Pope Francis as he accompanies at the end of their meeting at the presidential palace, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis demands ‘decisive measures’ to resolve Rohingya exodus

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis left the Vatican on Sunday for a six-day trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh. While attention will focus on how Francis addresses the Rohingya Muslim crisis, the trip also holds huge significance for the tiny Catholic communities in each country. (Associated Press/File)

Pope Francis to raise Rohingya crisis in Myanmar

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a joint press conference with Myanmar Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi at the Foreign Ministry office in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. Tillerson said Wednesday that his country was deeply concerned by "credible reports" of atrocities committed by Myanmar's security forces and called for an independent investigation into a humanitarian crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya flee to Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Rex Tillerson: U.S. considers individual sanctions for Myanmar

By Esther Htusan - Associated Press

A view of the Hakim Para camp of Rohingya refugees in Ukhiya, Bangladesh, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. More than 600,000 members of the Muslim minority have fled to Bangladesh since August, when Rohingya insurgents attacked Myanmar police and paramilitary posts, and security forces responded with a scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya villages. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

Myanmar military denies atrocities against Rohingya Muslims

By ESTHER HTUSAN - Associated Press

Gardens connect Bengali women to Detroit food scene

By MARK KURLYANDCHIK - Associated Press

In this image made from Oct. 16, 2017, video released by UNHCR, thousands of Rohingya refugees arrive in Anjuman Para, Bangladesh, from Myanmar. Over 500,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled violence in Myanmar and arrived in Bangladesh over the past seven weeks. (Roger Arnold/UNHCR via AP)

Thousands more Rohingya Muslims cross border into Bangladesh

By DAR YASIN - Associated Press

In this Oct. 2, 2017 photo, newly arrived Rohingya refugee Yosar Hossein, 7, carries his baby sister Noyem Fatima and walks followed by his other siblings and mother Firoza Begum on a mud bank leading to a Bangladesh army run processing center where they will be allotted their camp, in Teknaf, Bangladesh. Barefoot and still wearing his school uniform, the 7-year-old is among more than a half million persecuted Rohingya Muslims fleeing neighboring Myanmar. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

AP PHOTOS: A Rohingya boy’s struggle to reach Bangladesh

By GEMUNU AMARASINGHE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2016 file photo, Bangladesh policemen stand guard after cordoning off the building where suspected militants are hiding, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The country is expanding its anti-terror operations with a new police unit to hunt down suspected extremists. The decision to create the new unit follows several years of deadly attacks targeting writers, atheists, foreigners and other perceived enemies of Islam, though there have been no major attacks since July 2016. Experts said Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, the move would help maintain security control. (AP Photo/File)

Bangladesh to establish new anti-terror police unit

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

United Nations Ambassador from U.S. Nikki Haley address U.N. Security Council meeting on Myanmar's Rohingya crisis, Thursday Sept. 28, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

The Latest: Myanmar denies ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Muslims

Associated Press

In this Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 photo, Bangladeshis crowd an tuk-tuk on a street with a billboard in appreciation of Bangladesh's prime minister Sheikh Hasina for sheltering Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Vast areas in this coastal district are now entirely taken over by a sea of makeshift bamboo and plastic tents, homes for the more than 430,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled here with stories of terrible persecution in Myanmar. The new arrivals spill out of the existing refugee camps for Rohingya Muslims that have existed in this border district since the 1990s. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

‘Too many people’: Refugee influx worries Bangladesh town

By MUNEEZA NAQVI - Associated Press

Alishaan, a Rohingya Muslim man, carries his sick mother Aishya Khatoon to a hospital at Taiy Khali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. More than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when deadly attacks by a Rohingya insurgent group on police posts prompted Myanmar's military to launch &quot;clearance operations&quot; in Rakhine state. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

The Latest: US envoy: Alleged abuses should be investigated

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Royhingya refugees from Myanmar receiving food from Bangladeshi aid workers Associated Press photo

Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar must be managed

By Sajeeb Wazed

Rohingya Muslims stand in a queue to receive food being distributed near Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. With Rohingya refugees still flooding across the border from Myanmar, those packed into camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh are desperate for scant basic resources and fights erupt over food and water. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Bangladesh truck carrying Rohingya Muslim aid crashes; 9 die

By ESTHER HTUSAN and JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

The Latest: US calls for meeting on weapons proliferation

Associated Press

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over recently from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stand in a queue to receive food being distributed near Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them in the last three weeks, after security forces and allied mobs retaliated to a series of attacks by Muslim militants last month by burning down thousands of Rohingya homes in the predominantly Buddhist nation. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

‘Historic exodus’ from Myanmar: US gives $32M for Rohingya

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press