Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP): One of the bombmakers in the Bali blasts that killed more than 200 people two decades ago was released on parole on Wednesday after serving half of his sentence, an Indonesian official said, despite protests from Australia. Umar Patek was a member of an Al Qaeda-linked group that detonated devices at a […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US said Wednesday that security cooperation with Türkiye is of “paramount importance” after lawmakers dropped provisions from the annual defense spending bill that made sales of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara contingent on a series of conditions. Asked by reporters about the issue, State Department spokesman Ned Price ...
ANKARA (AA) – The trial for the Brussels attacks of 2016 which killed 32 people began on Monday. Six years after the attacks, 10 men accused of being members of the ISIS are on trial, one of them in absentia as he is believed to have been killed in Syria. Two attacks hit the Zaventem […]
Sydney, Australia (AFP): An alleged ISIS fighter who was apparently part of the group’s recruitment campaign will be charged with “serious terror offences” after being extradited to Australia from Turkiye. Neil Christopher Prakash, 31, was arrested in Turkiye in 2016 after crossing into the country from Syria. Prakash was sen...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The US has designated four senior members of al-Qaeda in South Asia and Afghanistan, as well as the Pakistani Taliban, as “global terrorists.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday Washington is committed to using its full set of counterterrorism tools to counter the threat posed by “terrorist grou...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Seventeen suspects linked to Sunday’s terrorist attack on Istiklal Avenue in central Istanbul were arrested by a court order early Friday. They include Syrian national Ahlam al-Bashir — the PKK fighter who confessed to planting the bomb. The suspects’ statements had been taken earlier by the 3rd and 4th Istanb...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – The tripartite memorandum between Finland, Sweden and Türkiye for NATO membership of the Nordic nations will be fulfilled, the Swedish foreign minister reiterated on Monday. Speaking to reporters in Brussels ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers, Tobias Billstrom condemned Sunday’s terror attack on Istanbul...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has slammed the visit of Itamar Ben-Gvir, an incoming far-right Israeli minister, to a commemoration event for a terrorist leader as “abhorrent.” “Celebrating the legacy of a terrorist organization is abhorrent. There is no other word for it. It is abhorrent,” State Department spokesman Ne...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The Somali forces, backed by international partners, killed 17 al-Shaabab men in a new operation, authorities said on Wednesday. The operation took place in the small town of Hawadley, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu, on Tuesday night, according to the Information Ministry. “The operation was c...
Diamniadio, Senegal (AFP): Senegal’s President Macky Sall, who heads the African Union, on Monday hit out at the failings of the UN Security Council and the G20 group of major economies as he listed the problems facing Africa, from climate change and health crises to the impact of war in Ukraine and a spate of […]
