TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Airbus has begun building its first helicopter assembly plant in China, and the European plane maker plans to produce 18 machines a year there in hopes the country will soon open up its low-altitude airspace. China currently has a shortage of civilian helicopters for emergency medical purposes and other uses due to […]
Southeast Asian militants have helped Islamic State-inspired Filipino fighters in their deadly battle against Philippine government troops in the besieged southern city of Marawi, where they are holding several hostages, including a Catholic priest, officials said Friday. The government’s solicitor-general, Jose Calida, said militants from Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore were providing back-up firepower to the […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – At least 23 people have been killed and another 25 injured by gunmen who attacked a bus carrying Coptic Christians near the city of Minya, according to Egyptian authorities. The bus was ambushed by unknown gunmen near a Christian monastery on Friday morning and the Egyptian health ministry said there were dozens […]
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said Thursday that the recent terror attacks in Mindanao, Bangkok and Jakarta are linked to the killing of Malaysian Islamic State terrorist Muhammad Wanndy Jedi, New Straits Times Online reported on Thursday. The public, he said, should not take the incidents overseas lightly since they could […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Russia’s main domestic security agency says it has arrested four members of the Islamic State group who have been preparing attacks in Moscow, The Associated Press reports. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, the main KGB successor agency, said the suspects arrested in Moscow Thursday, May 25 were preparing to strike at the […]
Authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region are confiscating all Qurans published more than five years ago due to “extremist content,” according to local officials, amid an ongoing campaign against “illegal” religious items owned by mostly Muslim ethnic Uyghur residents. Village chiefs from Barin township, in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture’s Peyziwat (Jiashi) county, recently told […]
Three policemen and two suspected suicide bombers died in a terrorist attack late Wednesday outside a busy bus terminal in East Jakarta, police said. Ten other people were injured in the twin bombings, carried out minutes apart at a time when many police officers were overseeing a parade in the area that was taking place […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Philippine security forces bombed a southern city on Thursday, May 25 as they battled Islamist militants who were holding hostages and reported to have murdered at least 11 civilians, according to AFP. An initial rampage by the gunmen, who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, through the mainly Muslim city of […]
