The Israeli military on Wednesday released drone video appearing to show Hamas militants at a Rafah-area compound of the U.N. Palestinian relief agency UNRWA, drawing an accusation that the U.N. is itself a “terrorist entity.” “Terrorists were identified in the central logistics complex of the UNRA agency next to U.N. vehicles,” the Israeli military said […]
* Residents say clashes are some of the fiercest in months * Israeli army says forces target central Jabalia in north * Troops also hit Hamas training ground in Rafah, southern Gaza * Militants say they are putting up strong resistance * Gaza rescuers say they are unable to reach the wounded By Nidal al-Mughrabi […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces killed six militants in twin raids Wednesday targeting their hideouts in the country’s volatile northwest region bordering Afghanistan, the military said. Five militants were killed in the first raid in Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said in a statement. It did not provide […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has carried out a new round of airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq, the Turkish defense ministry said Monday. Warplanes struck suspected positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the regions of Hakurk, Metina and Gara in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, according to the statement. The airstrikes […]
A German warship ended its mission protecting merchant shipping from Houthi militants in Yemen and departed from the Red Sea early on Saturday morning. The frigate was part of the EU’s defensive naval mission Aspides and was deployed in the Red Sea in February to protect merchant ships from attacks by the militants in Yemen, […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The head of Russia’s national security council on Wednesday contended that the United States shares blame for the attack by gunmen on a Moscow concert hall that killed 145 people, even though a branch of the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility. Since the March 22 attack at the Crocus City […]
By Saleem Ahmed QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani security forces on Wednesday repulsed a gun and bomb attack by militants on a complex outside the strategic port of Gwadar, which killed all eight militants and two soldiers, officials said. China has invested heavily in the mineral-rich southwestern province of Balochistan, including developing Gwadar, despite a […]
Six alleged members of the Islamic State group were killed in a shootout in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, in what the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) described Sunday as a “counterterrorism operation.” According to a statement by the NAC, late on Saturday the six men barricaded themselves in a third-floor apartment in Karabulak, a […]
A military court in Somalia has sentenced six Islamic State fighters from Morocco to death. The men will be executed by a firing squad if their appeal, which they have one month to file, is unsuccessful. “They came to Somalia to support Isis [IS} and destroy and shed blood,” the court’s deputy chairman, Col Ali […]
Five traitors, including a sniper of the Russian-created illegal paramilitary formation Somalia, involved in hostilities against Ukraine’s Defence Forces in Donetsk Oblast, have been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Source: Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) Quote: “Based on the SSU evidence base, five more traitors who fought against the Defence Forces on the eastern […]
The Russia-controlled “Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic” has sentenced 33 Ukrainian servicemen from the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy and the 17th Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to 27 to 29 years in a maximum security colony. Source: Radio Liberty; Russian Prosecutor General’s Office; Investigative Committee of the […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency said Tuesday it has for the first time managed to shut down 20 WhatsApp groups allegedly operated by the extremist group al-Shabab for extortion and intimidation. NISA in a statement said its cyber division had identified what it described as the virtual hubs for illicit […]