An Indonesian National Police elite counter-terrorism unit has arrested two terrorist suspects in separate operations in the provinces of Aceh and Banten allegedly linked to Daesh terrorist group, a spokesman for the police said. BALI (Sputnik) — The suspects that are allegedly memebers of the terror group that has pledged allegiance to Daesh, are being […]
Police in the Malaysian state of Penang on Saturday arrested satirical cartoonist Zunar for investigation under the country’s Sedition Act and confiscated an exhibit of his artwork. The cartoonist, a BenarNews contributor, is already facing a travel ban imposed in June and nine sedition charges for allegedly insulting the judiciary in tweets made regarding former […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Two Armenian neighborhoods of Aleppo, Nor Kyugh and Suleymaniye have fallen under a heavy rocket attack. Rockets also landed near the Holy Trinity (Zvartnots) Armenian Catholic Church but fortunately didn’t explode. One person was killed, four more were injured in Nor Kyugh, with heavy fighting underway in the outskirts of Aleppo, Arevelk said. […]
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake has hit northwestern China near the border with Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) reported Friday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The shocks were registered at 14:24 UTC in Southern Xinjiang 25 kilometers from the border with Tajikistan and 30 kilometers from the border with Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 10 kilometers. […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Israeli police have arrested 12 people on suspicion of arson over a series of wildfires that have burned around the country for four days, BBC News reports. Firefighters have brought a blaze under control around the northern city of Haifa, where about 80,000 people were ordered to evacuate. But officials say several smaller […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Australia’s most notorious terrorist – who was believed to have been killed in a United States air strike in Iraq – has reportedly been arrested in the Middle East, The Telegraph said. Melbourne-born Neil Prakash, who became Australia’s main recruiter of Islamic State of the fighters, has been in custody in an unidentified […]
Several countries have mobilized to answer Israel’s plea for help in efforts to contain the disastrous wildfires that have broken in a number of spots across the state. The fires began in Zichron Ya’akov on Tuesday and have since spread throughout the country, pushed by extreme dryness and strong winds and forcing tens of thousands […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – A suicide bomber detonated his car bomb at a gas station in al-Hilla city, 100 km south of Baghdad on Thursday, November 24, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 10 more, police and medical sources say, according to Reuters. The attack took place at gas station with an adjacent restaurant used by […]
