Two car bomb blasts are reported to have rocked the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, just hours after an attack on a market left 64 people dead. Police sources told the Reuters news agency that at least 15 people had been killed in the northern Kadhimiya area and seven others in the city's west. A car bomb was also used in the...
DAVID Cameron has been accused of "manipulating" former spy chiefs into warning that Britain’s security will be at risk if it leave’s the European Union. Lord Evans, former director of MI5, and Sir John Sawers, former chief of MI6, claimed in a joint article that a Brexit would hinder the UK's ability...
DERANGED Islamic State jihadis are likely to attack fan zones and bars during this summer’s European football Championships, intelligence experts have warned. The depraved militants are believed to be planning assaults during the group stage of the tournament — when France will be packed with British fans. The Risk...
A UN envoy has said more than 50 mass graves have so far been found in parts of Iraq that were previously controlled by so-called Islamic State (IS). Jan Kubis told the UN Security Council that it was "evidence of the heinous crimes" IS had committed. The graves have been discovered in recent months as territory has...
EUROVISION officials have BANNED the Welsh flag from the upcoming song contest to stop the competition becoming "political". Welsh singer Joe Woolford is due to represent Britain in next week's Eurovision Song Contest, but flags from his home country will fail to make the arena. Other banned flags on the list...
THE shocking scale of the terrorist threat facing Turkey was laid bare tonight amid warnings to British tourists to avoid the country over safety fears. Officials in Ankara revealed they have thwarted an astonishing 85 terror attacks — including defusing LIVE bombs — since the turn of the year alone. A popular...
A suicide car bomber has killed two policemen in south-eastern Turkey. The bomb went off outside police headquarters in the south-eastern city of Gaziantep, near the Syria border. More than 20 people, some of them civilians, were injured in the early-morning explosion, which was heard several kilometres away. Police later...
EXCLUSIVE: Islamic State (ISIS) technicians are working flat out to develop a Google-style driverless car that could navigate itself into a crowded area before detonating an explosive device, a Nato security expert has warned. ISIS' research and development department in the terror group's de facto Syrian capital,...
CRAZED Islamic State terrorists are feared to be planning a "major attack" on the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden next month. Eight fanatics have recently entered Stockholm after fighting for ISIS, also known as Daesh, in Iraq and Syria, according to the Daily Star. One of the gang is said to have close links to Abu...
DESPERATE Islamic State jihadis have resorted to running fish farms in an attempt to claw back money lost from obliterated oil fields. The crazed terror cult reportedly makes around £2billion every year with most of that coming from oil and gas sales from Iraq and Syria. But following US-led airstrikes on ISIS' cash...
The international campaign against the so-called Islamic State (IS) group is evolving quickly. As the United States announces a new phase in its campaign, shifting from "degrading" the so-called caliphate to destroying it, the key questions concern what the extremist group will do to thwart the campaign. "The...
Up to $800m (£550m) in cash held by so-called Islamic State (IS) has been destroyed in air strikes, a US military official says. Maj Gen Peter Gersten, who is based in Baghdad, said the US had repeatedly targeted stores of the group's funds. The blow to the group's financing has contributed to a 90% jump in...