ANKARA (AA) — Afghanistan’s interim Taliban government has rejected a UN Security Council report claiming that several terrorist groups, including ISIS, are present in the country and have access to weapons left by US-led foreign forces. “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan once again rejects these baseless accusations and . . . in ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – At least 23 Boko Haram members were killed Saturday in operations against the group in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria. Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, director of defense media operations, said in a statement that the army continues operations against the group in Borno. Buba said 23 terrorists were killed but many [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) — The Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will be dismantled and eliminated from Iraq. “The PKK terrorist group is currently hiding within the territories of Iraq. Hopefully, we will clear this virus from Iraq together,” Fidan said at a joint press conference wit...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar has said his country would continue its long-drawn fight against “terrorism” as “surrender is not an option.” “Pakistan will not surrender in front of radicalism, extremism, and intolerance no matter what. This is our home and we...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 12 Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush by suspected terrorists in a village in the southwest of Niger, authorities said Tuesday, the latest attack since President Mohamed Bazoum was deposed in a military coup. An operation by the national guard was the target of an ambush Sunday evening […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye expects Iraq to officially recognize PKK as a terrorist organization, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Tuesday. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, Fidan said: “We expect Iraq, out of friendship and brotherhood, to officially rec...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Six Pakistani army troops and four suspected militants were killed in a clash in a northwestern region near the border with Afghanistan on Tuesday, the army said. The clash took place in the restive South Waziristan tribal district, said a statement from the army’s mouthpiece, Inter Services Public Relations. Two...
BAIDOA, Somalia (AA) – At least two people were killed and as many others wounded in a suicide car bombing in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, police said. The attack took place near Mogadishu stadium that is currently housing Somali military police. Ibrahim Ali, a police officer in Mogadishu, told Anadolu over the phone that [&he...
– Civilians cannot return to their homes due to PKK terrorist threat in region DUHOK, Iraq (AA) – Syrians who fled the civil war and are now staying in refugee camps in Iraq are desperate for help as they cannot return to their homes because terrorists from the PKK, and its offshoots including YPG, have […]
Niamey, Niger – AFP Seventeen Niger soldiers were killed on Tuesday in an attack by suspected militants near the country’s western border with Burkina Faso, the defence ministry said. An army detachment was “the victim of a terrorist ambush near the town of Koutougou”, said a ministry statement late Tuesday. It added th...