Vienna, Austria – AFP A 19-year-old alleged Islamic State sympathiser planned a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna designed to kill many people, the country’s intelligence agency claimed on Thursday. Austrian authorities detained two suspects Wednesday for allegedly plotting to attack this week’s Vienna concer...
Ankara, Turkey – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that Washington was working “very aggressively” to dramatically expand the amount of aid reaching trapped civilians in Gaza. The top US diplomat held 2.5 hours of one-on-one talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan focused on soothing the anger at...
Brussels, Belgium – AFP A Belgian court on Friday handed out sentences ranging up to life in prison to eight men for the 2016 bombings in Brussels, ending the country’s largest-ever criminal trial. The suicide bombings on March 22, 2016, at Brussels’ main airport and on the metro system killed 32 people and were claimed [&hel...
Near Deir Ezzor, Syria – AFP Kurdish-led forces were sending reinforcements to eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor province on Monday amid days of clashes with Arab fighters loyal to a detained local official, an AFP correspondent said. Fighting erupted after the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) detained Ahmad al-Khabil, head of the...
