Saudi Arabia says it has broken off diplomatic ties with Iran, amid a row over the Saudi execution of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric, according to BBC News. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir was speaking after demonstrators had stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran, BBC News reported. As UNIAN reported earlier, Shiite Sheikh...
The Russian-backed militants attacked the Ukrainian positions eleven times in the past day, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). In the late hours of Sunday, the militants led aimed fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades on Ukrainian positions in the area of Shyrokyne, located not far...
The Saudi Interior Ministry said 47 people convicted of plotting and carrying out terrorist attacks, targeting civilians and security forces, were executed, according to Most of those executed were involved in a series of attacks carried out by al-Qaeda from 2003-06 that killed Saudis and foreigners in the kingdom, the...
The occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine have ceased to be just a subject of Kremlin pressure on the official Kyiv. There are indications showing that this de facto no man's land, held by the Russian proxies, has turned into an industrial park and logistics center for the illegal production and smuggling...
An hours-long gun battle raged at India’s Pathankot Air Base in the northern Punjab state after armed men stormed the facility. Three Indian troops were confirmed dead, and four terrorists were killed in the shootout with Indian security forces. The operation to secure the base has now ended with all the terrorists dead,...
A U.N. plan to suspend Syria's nearly five-year-old civil war calls for listing which militant groups may be fought despite an eventual ceasefire, one of the toughest issues vexing diplomats trying to end the conflict, according to Reuters. A U.N. draft discussion paper obtained by Reuters includes eight "framework...
The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France on Wednesday had a telephone call in the so-called "Normandy format" to discuss the Donbas crisis and the implementation of the Minsk peace agreements in 2016, according to a statement by French President Francois Hollande's office, reports World.Corruption The...
Enrique Marquez Jr., a longtime friend of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, has been indicted on terrorism charges by a federal grand jury. He was arrested in mid-December over accusations of conspiring with a terrorist. Marquez, 24, has been charged with conspiring with Farook and planning terror attacks in 2011 and 2012....
London’s Central Criminal Court has found a British couple guilty of plotting a terrorist attack in the city after the husband tweeted seeking advice on where to target, reports Corruption.World Mohammed Rehman and Sana Ahmed Khan, both from Reading, were convicted Tuesday of planning the attack which police believe...
The OSCE monitors revisited Kominternove (23km north-east of Mariupol) to follow up on reports about the presence of armed “DPR” members in the village, according to the SMM report published on December 28. “In Kominternove, the SMM did not observe any armed persons or weaponry, with the exception of the...
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine reported about the single shots of small arms it heard while examining missile craters near the village of Kominternove, eastern Ukraine. "At 10:53 hrs on December 27, an SMM patrol comprised of six SMM members in two armoured vehicles arrived at 3.5km south-south-west...
The United States and its allies conducted 31 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Thursday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on Friday, according to Reuters. In Syria, a dozen strikes using fighters and drones near five cities included eight strikes near Mar'a and Manbij that struck...