A suspected “price tag,” or retaliation, arson attack by right-wing Jewish settlers killed an 18-month-old Palestinian child in a house in the occupied West Bank and injured several other people, according to Israeli police. The toddler died in a house fire which broke out in a village of Kafr Duma near the West...
Washington is set to approve a $5.4 billion sale of 600 advanced Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia. More such sales are expected in the coming months, defense analysts say, as Gulf nations react to the Iran nuclear deal by buying US weapons systems. According to a notice sent to Congress by the Pentagon on Wednesday, the State...
Russian planes risking collision with civilian airliners, complain European countries Latvia's Armed Forces have reported sightings of twelve Russian aircrafts in international airspace above the Baltic Sea close to the Latvian border. Latvia has regularly reported sightings of Russian military naval and air units along the...
The death of the Taliban’s supreme commander, Mullah Mohammad Omar, has been confirmed by Pakistani authorities to Afghan government officials, according to media reports. Afghan authorities have announced a press conference on Mullah Omar to respond to the rumors, Reuters learned from an unnamed official not authorized...
Participants in an Australian reality TV show were fired on by Islamic State fighters in Syria during filming, public broadcaster SBS’ footage has revealed. The goal of the series is to relive the experience of refugees and show it to Australians first-hand. SBS aired the first episode of a new season of “Go Back to...
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi approved a beheading of a woman as a wedding gift for a female religious judge, a defector from the terrorist group told Daily Mail in an exclusive interview, also describing other atrocities committed by the militants. A female Sharia judge, who lost her husband in a fighting and had...
After launching a second wave of airstrikes against the positions of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants, effectively ending a fragile two-year truce, Turkey has announced that it is calling a NATO meeting next week to discuss regional security concerns. Ankara sent bombers on a mission for a second night on Sunday...
Iraqi security forces entered the University of Anbar in Ramadi and clashed with members of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) on Sunday. The battle was part of the counter attack that Iraqi forces have launched in the western province of Anbar in an effort to retake the strategic city of Ramadi, some 105km (65 miles) west...
The notorious ISIS executioner, a Briton known as Jihadi John who featured in several beheading videos, has reportedly fled Islamic State-controlled territory, fearing that the publicity surrounding him will eventually result in his head served on a plate by his fellow terrorists. The Kuwaiti-born Mohammed Emwazi turned into...
Saudi-led coalition airstrikes killed over 120 civilians and left 150 injured after a fierce attack on Friday in the southwestern Yemeni province of Taiz. The coalition has announced a five-day humanitarian truce starting on Sunday night. Local sources told AP that most of the houses in the area were in ruins and a fire later...
Ankara will join the anti-ISIS coalition by providing jets and airbases as part of an agreement with the US, the country’s foreign ministry said in a statement citing the growing threat to Turkey’s security posed by the jihadists. “Turkey and the US have decided to deepen ongoing cooperation in the fight...
Any Israeli aggression against Iran, whether in the form of military action or cyber-attacks, would be “an enormous mistake,” US Secretary of State John Kerry said in an interview. Following the nuclear deal with Iran that was reached last week, Kerry was asked in a Friday interview on the NBC "Today"...