The death toll from a suspected suicide bombing at a wedding in the south east of Turkey has risen to 51 people, according to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He said the suicide bomber was a 12-14-year-old child. President Erdogan confirmed in a statement to the public broadcaster NTV that 51 people had died […]
Iraq has executed 36 men convicted of taking part in the massacre by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group of hundreds of military recruits in 2014, officials say. The men were hanged at the Nasiriyah prison in the southern province of Dhiqar on August 21, Governor Yahya al-Nasiri said. IS captured an estimated 1,700 soldiers […]
A major terrorism attack struck the Turkish city of Gaziantep leaving at least 50 dead and wounding 94 others according to the city’s Governor, reports Sputnik News Wire. The attack targeted a wedding on Saturday night with the purpose of creating mass civilian carnage. Parliamentary deputy from the ruling AKP Party, Samil Tayyar, said that […]
Turkey has posted its own “travel warning” amid an ongoing international scandal linked to Turkey’s underage sex law, placing ads at Istanbul Airport alleging that “Sweden has the highest rape rate worldwide.” The “warning” apparently appeared at the international Ataturk airport, in the form of a banner, by the Turkish Gunes newspaper, The Local reported […]
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack on a traffic police post outside Moscow in which both of the attackers were killed. The militant group made the claim on August 19 via the Amaq news agency, which it regularly uses to issue statements. “Two fighters of the Islamic State assaulted Russian policemen in […]
Two car bombs and a roadside explosive have exploded in eastern Turkey targeting police and security forces. At least nine people were killed and more than 200 injured in the three separate bombings on August 18 in attacks that Turkish authorities are blaming on the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). A roadside bomb in Bitlis […]
Two Indonesian sailors escaped from Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines who had held them and others hostage for nearly two months after hijacking their tugboat, Indonesian and Philippine officials confirmed Wednesday. Elsewhere, the crew of a fuel tanker sailed from Malaysia to Indonesia’s Batam Island on Wednesday over a dispute with their employer, […]
The number of wounded in the car bomb attack in Turkey’s eastern Van province has gone up to 71, local media report. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Earlier, it was reported that a blast occurred near a police station in Van at around 23:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Wednesday, killing at least three people and injuring […]
