Two Spanish widows of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) jihadists were arrested while attempting to cross into Turkey from Syria with their children, media reveal. Both women are considered potential terrorist threats. Asia Ahmed Mohamed, 26, and Fatima Akil Laghmich, 21, traveled to Syria from the Spanish African enclave of Ceuta in 2014, according to […]
A new nationwide cease-fire in Syria brokered by Russia and Turkey appears to be largely holding, despite reports of isolated clashes, a monitoring group has said. The truce that came into force at midnight local time is the first nationwide halt in fighting since a weeklong cease-fire in September that collapsed after several incidents of […]
A third Muslim man whom the Myanmar government said had worked closely with local administrative officials in restive northern Rakhine state has been found dead in violence-ridden Maungdaw township, the State Counselor’s Office announced on Wednesday. Authorities are investigating the murder of the man who was a former ward administrator in Badakar village and had […]
Australian police have cracked a trafficking ring, arresting 15 people in Christmas sting operations during which they seized some 500kg of cocaine, in addition to some 600kgs confiscated earlier, making it the largest drug seizure in Australian history. The Australian police, assisted by a multitude of Australian agencies, carried out a large-scale operation preceded by […]
A 30-year-old woman has been beheaded in a remote Afghan village for visiting a local market alone, without her husband, local media report citing officials. The people behind the beheading may have links to the Taliban. The incident took place in a village of Latti, Sar-e Pol Province, in northern Afghanistan on Monday evening, TOLO […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Three Armenian servicemen were killed in Azerbaijan’s attempted subversive attack near the village of Chinari in Tavush province in the early hours of Thursday, December 29, a Defense Ministry spokesman said in a Facebook post. “The Armenian Armed Forces neutralized the Azeri troops’ activity on the border and thwarted the attack, which resulted […]
China’s Public Security Ministry, the top police authority, has put the death toll from a car and bomb attack in the northwestern Xinjiang province at five, local media said Thursday. BEIJING (Sputnik) – A civil servant and a security guard died Wednesday when attackers smashed a car into a government building and detonated a bomb […]
Ten people are reported dead and at least 20 injured after two explosions at a boxing match in the Philippines, according to local media. The blasts occurred at about 9pm Wednesday evening during a fiesta celebration in Hilongos, Leyte – an island in the Visayas group of the Philippines. The improvised explosive devices (IED) killed […]
