Ex wife to New York tycoon Donald, Czech born Ivana Trump is on high alert after receiving death and kidnapping threats from the Russian Mafia, prompting her and daughter Ivanka to be accompanied by bodyguards wherever they travel.  The Trump entourage recently attended a party in St Tropez, France, with …

Taliban ambushed a convoy of coalition and Afghan National Army forces and destroyed their 10 vehicles in Panjwai district of Kandahar province. After a while Taliban attacked three security posts in the area which were demolished. 

On Friday afternoon (August 18), a diversion group of Mujahideen blew up a Russian armored personnel carrier in the area of village Eshelkhatoi, killing 2 and wounding at least 4 invaders.

On the night from August 19 to August 20, the houses of two  puppet policemen were attacked in village Alkhasty in the Russian-occupied Muslem Caucasian state of Ingushetia. Two munafiqs (apostates) were killed, their houses burnt;  report local Russian proxies. No other details were given.

The United States has named a “manager” for its intelligence operations against Venezuela and Cuba. North Korea and Iran are the only other countries that have been assigned so-called “mission managers”, who supervise intelligence operations against them.

WASHINGTON — A US-backed diplomatic pact to end more than a month of war between Israel and Islamist fighters in Lebanon may stop the worst of the killing and retire the daily television images of burning buildings and suffocated children.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Three back-to-back explosions killed 47 people and wounded more than 70 Sunday night in a mostly Shiite neighbourhood in southern Baghdad, police said.

GENEVA (AFP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross on Sunday slammed the ongoing heavy civilian casualties in the conflict in Lebanon as “unacceptable”.

GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Gaza Strip, the lesser half of the Palestinians’ promised future state, is home to 1.4 million residents who struggle against poverty and violence on the shores of the Mediterranean.

GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Gaza Strip, the lesser half of the Palestinians’ promised future state, is home to 1.4 million residents who struggle against poverty and violence on the shores of the Mediterranean.