Iraqi Intelligence Directorate announced, on Thursday, apprehending three terrorists in Diyala. It also indicated that one of them participated in a terrorist attack during the Islamic State offensive on the province.
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Dozens killed in heavy fighting in northwest Syria
More than 100 combatants have been killed over the past 48 hours in fighting between Syrian forces and rebels in the country’s besieged northwest, a war monitor has said. Ongoing clashes and aerial bombardment centred on the village of Tal Meleh in the north of Hama province, the UK-based Syrian …
Read More »Trump Warns Iran that US 'Cocked & Loaded' but 'In No Hurry'
The United States was “cocked & loaded,” ready to strike three sites in Iran in retaliation for the downing of a U.S. drone over the Strait of Hormuz but called off the attacks at the last possible moment to spare Iranian lives. The revelation by U.S. President Donald Trump on …
Read More »NATO faces big bill if it fails to pick AWACS successor soon: Officials
A senior NATO official says the US-led military alliance would be facing the unpleasant prospect of paying a significant bill if it failed to come up with a successor to its ageing fleet of AWACS spy planes by around 2035.
Read More »US Senate Scrutinizes Saudi, UAE Arms Sales
Later this week, the U.S. Senate is expected to mount an effort to block an $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as many American lawmakers continue to seethe over Riyadh’s human rights record, the war in Yemen and last year’s murder of journalist Jamal …
Read More »Somalia: Al-Shabaab Claims Bomb Attack in Lower Shabelle Region
Al-Shabaab has claimed the responsibility for an explosion near Wanlaweyn district in Lower Shabelle region, south of Somalia on Sunday.
Read More »Egypt upholds jail terms for 315 Muslim Brotherhood loyalists
An Egyptian court upheld on Monday jail terms from five to 25 years against 315 defendants, mostly loyalists of the currently outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, over acts of violence and sabotage in 2013, official MENA news agency reported.
Read More »Russian jets carry out deadly bombings in Syria's Idlib
Nearly half of 3 million inhabitants of northwestern Syria, a rebel stronghold, have fled due to regime bombardment. At least 25 people have been killed in aerial bombardment carried out by Russian jet fighters in Idlib region, with schools and medical centres knocked down during a continued Syrian military offensive.
Read More »ISIS sleeper cells burn, blow up and slaughter hundreds in uptick of attacks across Iraq and Syria
It has been months since the Islamic State was expelled from its territorial control in Iraq and Syria, but the brutal terrorist outfit continues to wreak havoc in the lands it once deemed its “caliphate.”
Read More »Muslim couple deny terror-related charges in Madrid re-trial
A Moroccan-born Spaniard and his Mexican wife are denying charges in their retrial that they helped recruit militants for the Islamic State group in Madrid.
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