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QAMISHLI, Syria — A female Kurdish fighter carried out what appeared to be a suicide bombing attack on the Turkish military in Syria, destroying a tank and killing several Turkish soldiers with a grenade, Kurdish forces in the area said on Sunday. The Turkish military offensive against Kurdish militias in the Afrin area of northern […]

Stockholm terror attack suspect Rakhmat Akilov is expected to be charged on Tuesday. Akilov has confessed to driving the truck on Drottninggatan in Stockholm last spring in an attack that killed five people and injured many more. But much remains unknown about the Uzbek national. Prosecutor Hans Ihrman at Akilov’s remand hearing last spring. Photo: […]

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto crushed his competition with a landslide election victory Sunday that saw him receiving more than five times as much voter support than his closest challenger. The independent presidential candidate and current president Sauli Niinisto greets and thanks his supporters at his election reception in in Helsinki, Finland, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. […]

Drones belonging to a local courier company have taken part in People’s Liberation Army (PLA) drills, providing logistics support for the Chinese military “for the first time,” according to state-run Xinhua news agency. FILE PHOTO: Military vehicles carrying Pterodactyl I unmanned aerial vehicles © Jason Lee / Reuters The PLA used drones from SF Express, […]

AT-KABUL: At least 15 people including four bombers were killed and 16 other member of the security forces were injured after a group of ISIS fighters attacked an army base in west of Kabul city, Defense Ministry said. Attacked an army base in west of Kabul city, Defense Ministry said. The attack which began at […]

Russia’s new supersonic Tu-160 passenger aircraft generates great interest globallyWealthy foreigners have already started ordering the Tu-160 civil supersonic aircraft. It is only a few companies in the world that can afford maintaining and operating such airliners, news agencies say. Foreigners specialists evinced great interest in an opportunity to remake supersonic military aircraft Tu-160 and […]

The death toll from a powerful suicide attack claimed by the Taliban in Kabul has risen to at least 103 people, the interior ministry said on Sunday. Kabul residents are grieving and the government has declared a day of mourning after the suicide bomb attack on Saturday in the city centre, which also wounded 191 people. Kabul was on […]

Yemen’s Prime Minister Ahmed bin Dagher on Sunday accused southern separatists of attempting a coup in the interim capital of Aden after they took over the government headquarters. A soldier from the United Arab Emirates stands guard next to a UAE military plane at the airport of Yemen’s southern port city of Aden August 8, […]

Ingvar Kamprad, the enigmatic founder of Swedish furniture giant IKEA, died aged 91 on Sunday, the company said. Ingvar Kamprad pictured at a reception at Stockholm’s royal palace in 2015. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT “Ingmar Kamprad has peacefully passed away in his home” in southern Sweden, IKEA announced on its Twitter account. “Ingvar will be very […]

Moscow, SANA – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu discussed the preparations for holding the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in the Russian city of Sochi. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that Lavrov and Cavusoglu discussed in a phone call initiated by the Turkish side the details […]