A 37-year-old Pennsylvania man connected to the January 6, 2021 US Capitol riot ended his own life on Feb. 25, according to investigators. Matthew Perna pleaded guilty in December to entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds and other charges stemming from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That includes obstruction of an official [&he...
Turkish security forces claim to have “neutralized” five PKK members in northern Syria and Iraq across Turkiye’s border. The Turkish National Defense Ministry stated that four of the militants had opened ‘harassing fire’ on the Operation Peace Spring zone in northern Syria. Since 2016, Turkiye has launched a trio ...
BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi army launched a military operation on Saturday against the ISIS in the northern province of Salahuddin, according to a local military source. The operation aims to hunt down ISIS fighters holed up in Dujail district, south of Salahuddin, the source said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized […]...
Lebanon has thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to carry out three suicide bombings targeting Shiite religious compounds in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the interior ministry said Wednesday. Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said the instructions for the bomb plot came from an IS operative based in the Palestinian refug...
One Ethiopian soldier was killed and two others wounded in a bomb blast targeting peacekeeping forces of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). A landmine was planted near a well in Wajid, a town in southwestern Somalia, used frequently by Ethiopian soldiers deployed in the area. “The explosion killed one soldier on the spot. […...
AZAZ, Syria (AA) – A car bomb attack killed at least one person in northern Syria on Tuesday, local sources said. The bomb, which was planted in a vehicle, exploded in the Syrian opposition-held city of Azaz. Security forces launched an investigation into the attack, focusing on the possibility that it was planned by the […]
University students whose peers were killed in a rocket attack by the YPG/PKK terrorist group last week in northwestern Syria want the perpetrators held accountable. The terror group has recently increased its attacks on civilians, disrupting security in the safe zones of northern Syria. On Feb. 15, four people, including two students from Ale...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Seven militants were killed in a military operation in eastern Algeria on Saturday, according to the country’s Defense Ministry. A ministry statement said a cache of weapons, ammunitions, and communication devices was seized during the operation in the Wadi El-Dawwar forest in the Skikda state. No information was provid...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces killed at least 13 PKK members in two separate engagements in northern Iraq, the National Defense Ministry said on Saturday. In the first incident, five PKK “terrorists” were “neutralized” in the Operation Pence-Kaplan zone, the ministry said on Twitter. Turkish authorities use the word &...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 10 people were killed and more than 15 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in central Somalia on Saturday, a security official said. The suicide bomber hit a busy restaurant in Beledweyne, the provincial capital of Hiran, a security official told Anadolu Agency over phone on […]
