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 […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – A bomb attack targeted the party headquarters of Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohamed al-Halbousi in the western Anbar province, according to a local security source on Saturday. The source, who requested anonymity, said the attack on the Progress Party took place on Friday evening and was carried out by unidentified attackers. No c...
MUNICH, GERMANY: Turkiye’s defense minister has said that Ankara and Iraq have agreed on getting rid of terrorism as soon as possible. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said: “We all agree on the fight against terrorism and getting rid of it as soon as [&...
BAGHDAD (AA) – A senior member of the ISIS was killed in an Iraqi airstrike targeting his car in the western Anbar province, according to the defense ministry on Thursday. The attack took place in the desert of Al-Rutba district in Anbar, a ministry statement said. It identified the militant as Muthanna Khader Kamel Shatran, […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least four people were killed and six others injured in mortar attacks in southern Somalia on Wednesday. Several mortar rockets were fired at different places in Barawe while voting for Somalia’s parliamentary elections was underway in the town, which is the capital of Somalia’s South West State. Barawe’s sole voti...
Former Florida Republican Representative Dave Jolly called out Mike Pence and his top aide for not speaking out earlier about attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Attempts, he said, that were spurred at former President Donald Trump’s request. Jolly spoke with MSNBC host Alex Witt on Sunday after watching a clip of former Pence aide [&helli...
