TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkey’s official news agency says Istanbul police have detained 36 people as alleged members of the Daesh (also known as ISIL or ISIS) group. The Anadolu news agency reported Saturday that anti-terror police conducted simultaneous raids at 15 different addresses in Istanbul to apprehend five suspects who allegedly had travelled to Iraq […]
Chinese authorities have issued orders banning travel to Tibet from outside the politically sensitive region from Oct. 18 to 28 while top-level government meetings are held in Beijing and Lhasa, sources say. The ban was announced by telephone about ten days ago, a Tibetan employee in a travel agency in Xining, capital of northwestern China’s […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called U.S. President Donald Trump “deranged” and said he will “pay dearly” for threating to “totally destroy” North Korea. Kim made the remarks on September 22 in response to recent U.S.-led sanctions efforts and a threat Trump made on September 19 in a speech to the United Nations […]
Police on Thursday said militants planned to sabotage Malaysia’s biggest beer festival, which was canceled earlier this week after an Islamic party warned about how celebrating the alcoholic beverage could encourage immoral behavior. Citing security concerns, Malaysia’s police chief said his department would not have allowed The Better Beer Festival 2017 to go ahead in […]
Hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of muddy water have flooded eight villages in central Laos’ Xaysomboun province after the reservoir of a dam upstream burst its banks last week following heavy rain, damaging infrastructure, farmlands, and water supplies. When the reservoir of the Nam Ao Dam in Phaxay district in northeastern Laos’ Xieng Khouang […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – One of Australia’s top counter-terrorism officials has joined the ranks of people advising citizens to learn to live under a threat of terrorism, saying that a major attack on Aussie soil is inevitable. “I don’t like to say it but it will happen,” Mark Murdoch told the media on Wednesday. The 37-year-old […]
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, under mounting criticism over her government’s military offensive against minority Muslim Rohingyas, on Tuesday rejected claims that she had softened her stand towards the military after her party took power last year. In an interview with Radio Free Asia, she said she has remained firm with the […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Iran’s newly-appointed army chief, General Abdolrahim Mousavi, said on Monday, September 18 there is no guarantee Israel will exist in the next 25 years, adding that its slightest wrong move may result in the Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv being “razed down to the ground”, Al-Masdar News reports Mousavi was appointed […]
