Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in response to the assassination of a Russian ambassador by a Turkish policeman, said he would welcome Russia’s participation in investigating the incident, noting that Ankara and Moscow agree the attack is intended to disrupt mutual ties.
There are still about 9,000 families from the Yazidi minority community displaced in and around Iraq’s Sinjar district without fuel, food, clothes, and electricity amid a ferocious winter, Rudaw has learned.
Social media channels linked to the jihadist rivals Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda are celebrating and capitalizing on Monday’s assassination of Russian ambassador in Ankara by a Turkish policeman, who shouted the common battle cry of Islamic extremists as they commit mass murder, “Allahu Akbar,” during the attack.
A opposition-backed bill in Pakistan seeking to establish a commission to inquire into the revelations made by the controversial Panama Papers, which suggest financial wrongdoings by Prime Minister Sharif and his family, prompted an exchange of harsh words in the Islamabad-based parliament this week.
An armed insurgent group of oppressed Rohingya Muslim minority members in Myanmar who carried out a deadly attack against border guards in October is receiving support from diaspora members in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, reports the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG).
Syrian regime allies Russia and Iran are expected to discuss efforts to secure a ceasefire in Aleppo with Turkey, which has supported various armed groups seeking to overthrow dictator Bashar al-Assad, revealed Turkish Foreign Minister (FM) Mevlut Cavusoglu.
President-elect Donald Trump is considering appointing former Republican primary rival Carly Fiorina, who chaired the CIA’s civilian external advisory board during the George W. Bush Administration, as Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
Residents of war-ravaged Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Middle East, are facing yet another problem — the management of toxic trash that is posing a looming threat to the health of the people in the country’s ancient capital of Sanaa, home to a UNESCO World Heritage site.
U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq have provided weapons and training to hundreds of Shiite militias known for being affiliated with Iran, including some the U.S. has designated terrorists, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
The number of “battle-ready” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis in Iraq and Syria has plummeted to “its lowest point” ever, dropping by more than half from up to 25,000 earlier this year to between 12,000 and 15,000 now, according to the White House.
The American commander of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria told reporters that losing the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra to the terrorist group “is probably an embarrassment” to the Russians, and it is up to them to take it back, noting that the city is “theirs” to defend.
The Russia and Iran-backed Syrian forces will continue their brutal onslaught after pushing rebels out of city of Aleppo, according to dictator Bashar al-Assad.
The estimated 40,000 Christians in Aleppo are not among the civilians who are dreading the fall of the city to the Russia and Iran-backed regime of dictator Bashar al Assad, according to a charity group that helps persecuted Christians.
President Barack Obama’s parole-style board has cleared for release a “forever prisoner” that American intelligence officials have determined to have at least one relative who served as an al-Qaeda recruiter and can help him re-engage in terrorist activities.
A top Pakistani official has conceded that Pakistan is still serving as a safe haven for “some” members of the Haqqani Network, a jihadist group the American military believes poses the greatest threat to U.S. forces and their allies fighting in Afghanistan.
A mob of more than 1,000 people armed with batons, guns, and stones has reportedly attacked a mosque of the minority Muslim Ahmadiyah sect in Pakistan, prompting the provincial government to deploy the army to bring the situation under control.
Only an estimated one percent of the heroin seized by law enforcement in the United States originates from the Southwest Asia region that includes Afghanistan, the top producer of opium and heroin in the world, reports the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in its latest National Drug Threat Assessment.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadist group has reportedly claimed responsibility for carrying out a suicide bombing that killed at least 25 and wounded an estimated 49 others inside a Coptic Christian Church in the Egyptian capital Cairo during Sunday service.
The incoming United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres from Portugal, believes the intergovernmental organization needs to be more efficient and effective and less bureaucratic.
India now belongs to the list of top five defense spenders in the world with more than $50 billion devoted to its military budget, placing the South Asian country in fourth place, according to the annual Jane’s Defense Budgets Report issued by the research firm IHS Markit.
U.S. authorities have uncovered and destroyed 224 tunnels used to smuggle bulk quantities of illicit drugs along the U.S.-Mexico border since 1990–including 22 discovered in the last two years alone–reports the DEA in its latest National Drug Threat Assessment.
Some employees at the hospice unit of the Veterans Affairs medical center (VAMC) in Bay Pines, Florida, attempted to cover up the mistake of leaving a deceased veteran in a shower room for more than nine hours, reports the Tampa Bay Times, citing a hospital investigation.
The Pentagon announced this weekend that President Barack Obama has approved the deployment of 200 additional U.S. troops to Syria amid reports that the embattled city of Aleppo had nearly fallen to Russia and Iran-backed forces loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Israel is interested in honoring the Obama administration’s request to take a Kenyan “forever prisoner” held at the U.S. military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, reports the Miami Herald.
Turkey is currently holding intense discussions with Russia about the implementation of a ceasefire in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, revealed a spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Egypt has implemented an amended law that toughens repercussions for individuals who carry out female genital mutilation (FGM), a cultural practice that has roots in ancient Egypt and reportedly still affects more than 90 percent of women in the Muslim-majority African country.
The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan along with Afghan officials have expressed concerns about Russian support to Taliban terrorists fighting American-backed troops.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has lost 50,000 jihadis at the hands of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria over the last two years, Fox News has learned from an unnamed American military official.
The increasing Islamic terrorism threat facing China is prompting the communist country to question its military support to its ally Pakistan given the South Asian country’s “complicated relationship” with jihadi groups, reports the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in the latest edition of its online propaganda magazine Rumiyah, applauds the “martyrdom” of the Ohio State University (OSU) jihadi who used a butcher knife and vehicle to attack people and repeats instructions on carrying out more knife attacks.
China is increasingly providing military and economic assistance to Pakistan amid deadly confrontations between Islamabad and New Delhi over the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Iraqi Christians have not only suffered genocide at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS), the jihadist group has vandalized and destroyed many ancient churches in an attempt to erase all traces of their existence in the cradle of Christianity.
Pakistan has said it would welcome U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s mediation in the ongoing deadly dispute between Islamabad and New Delhi over the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir, reveals the Pakistani Foreign Office (FO).
Pakistan has embarked on a major diplomatic campaign to establish early relations with the incoming administration of Republican President-elect Donald Trump as some GOP lawmakers are pushing bills to cut foreign aid to the South Asian country and designate it a state-sponsor of terrorism.
A Pentagon investigation found that an “unintentional, regrettable” error resulted in the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) firing more than three dozen airstrikes in September that killed troops loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
President-elect Donald Trump so far appears inclined to appoint a total of five military officers to top cabinet and national security posts within his administration, a move that has been described as “unprecedented” by some analysts.
Americans may soon find themselves living in a dictator-ruled autocracy, courtesy of President-elect Donald Trump’s appointments of retired high-ranking military officers to top national security positions within his administration, claims an opinion article published in the Washington Post (WaPo).
President Barack Obama’s Pentagon discredited and suppressed an internal probe that uncovered $125 billion in wasteful spending on the enormous administrative operations primarily ran by civilians and contractors.
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to denounce communist China’s economic and military policies following his direct call with Taiwan’s democratically elected president. Critics have protested that the call bypassed a longstanding diplomatic protocol known as the “One China” policy.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced that he will visit Pearl Harbor later this month with U.S. President Obama, becoming Japan’s first leader to travel to the site of the Japanese attack that pulled the United States into World War II 75 years ago.
