The suspected perpetrator of a series of car crashes on a Berlin motorway on Tuesday evening has cited Islamist motives but appears to have acted alone, German police and prosecutors said Wednesday. “Comments made by the suspect after his criminal acts[...]
Gunmen stormed a cattle market and opened fire in an eastern Burkina Faso village Friday, killing at least 20 people and injuring many others, a local government official said. The attack in Namoungou village is being investigated, said Saidou Sanou, the[...]
A bomb targeting an anti-drug force tore through a busy market in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 10 others, police and hospital officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the[...]
Iraqi security forces yesterday seized seven Katyusha rockets believed to be designated to attack the heavily fortified Green Zone in the centre of the capital, Baghdad, Anadolu reported. The agency quoted Captain Ahmed Khalaf of Baghdad Police saying that the seven[...]
Three members of the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) were arrested in separate operations conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), together with police and military units last week. In a statement Wednesday, NBI officer-in-charge (OIC) Eric Distor said that[...]
Local media citing the report said the UN has estimated a total number of al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan at between 400 and 600. In addition, the UN has reported on the strong presence of Islamic State-India in Kerala and Karnataka. The[...]
The incident took place in a village near the city of Azaz in Aleppo province, the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Sunday. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says the booby-trapped car exploded at a roundabout leading to[...]
The Knesset's Finance Committee is set to debate whether to renew a tax exemption on fuels afforded to NGOs working with the Palestinian Authority and the Gaza Strip. The exemption pertains to excise taxes on fuel – levies imposed on manufactured[...]
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it foiled a terrorist attack in Simferopol, the capital of Crimea, and detained five suspects. It was established that the detainees were preparing to plant a makeshift explosive device in a market and had[...]
Three leaders have been left dominating the jihadist insurgency in the Sahel, following the death of a top al Qaeda commander in the West African state of Mali this week. French forces killed Algerian national Abdelmalek Droukdel, the head of al[...]