A suspected Islamic State jihadist blew himself up in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border during a police raid, injuring five officers, including one seriously, officials said Sunday. The suspect detonated explosives when police raided [ More … ]
US president Barack Obama will hold talks with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Sunday, according to a US official. This comes as world leaders seek a united response to the bloody attacks in central Paris [ More … ]
A mass grave believed to hold the remains of dozens of Yazidi women that were executed by the Islamic State (Daesh) group was found Saturday in northern Iraq, officials said. The grave, which has not [ More … ]
Police have begun questioning the relatives of the first terrorist to be identified after the attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead, French media reported as the investigation into the attacks widened to take [ More … ]
France’s intelligence services are facing intense scrutiny over whether they could have prevented the Paris attacks, since one of the terrorists was known to the agency.  According to Yves Trotignon, a former counter-terrorism official in [ More … ]
A Syrian who passed as a refugee through Greece last month, an Egyptian and a known French extremist were among the eight terrorists who killed nearly 130 people in a bloody wave of suicide bombings and [ More … ]
One of the gunmen who was killed after attacking a Paris concert hall on Friday had French nationality, and was known to have ties with Islamist militants, a source close to the inquiry said to Reuters. [ More … ]
Last year a consortium of one hundred and twenty Islamic Scholars wrote an open letter to Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi denouncing the organisation’s violent and extremist actions. The letter provides the world with [ More … ]
At least 128 persons were killed, 200 injured in the six attacks across Paris and the French President François Hollande says that the attacks were “an act of war” organised from abroad by Islamic State [ More … ]
Following the terrorist attacks in Paris killing more than 120 people, world leaders have expressed their condolences, and condemnation of the attacks. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani who was scheduled to land in France for a [ More … ]
Supporters of Islamic State (IS) have circulated a lengthy statement in French claiming to be from the group, saying that France was a “top target”. Â The statement claimed that “soldiers of the Caliphate” had attacked [ More … ]
Several attacks targeting Shiites in Baghdad, including a suicide bombing at a funeral in a mosque, killed at least 15 people on Friday, security and medical officials said. The suicide bombing inside the Al-Ashara al-Mubashareen [ More … ]
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have pushed out Islamic State forces in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar. This just one day after Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, along with volunteers from the Yazidi minority, and backed by US [ More … ]
The Israeli army is preparing for the possibility of deploying as many as 70 reserve battalions on operational activity in the West Bank next year, at a cost of some 77 million dollars, reports Haaretz. The [ More … ]
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