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Al-Shabab said 24 Somali soldiers were killed in the raid, but a Somali military official put the figure at around 10 dead soldiers [File: Hamza Mohamed/Al Jazeera] Heavy fighting erupted on Monday in the Somali border town of Balad Hawo near Kenya after al-Shabab detonated a suicide car bomb and then stormed the military base […]

Most came from Turkey. Many others were from former Soviet states, such as Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Russia. (Twitter) Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected ISIS fighters after government forces expelled the militant group from one of its last remaining strongholds in Iraq, security and aid officials said. Most came from […]

Terminal 1 being evacuated after a similar incident in 2016 Photo: DPA Terminal 1 of Germany’s largest airport was partially evacuated over the weekend, after an apparently psychologically disturbed man told police was carrying explosives in his luggage. A taxi driver first alerted police after the 37-year-old man had acted strangely during his cab ride […]

Source: Mil.ru If Russia refuses to conduct Zapad-2017 military exercises, the county will be allowed to return to the Group of Eight, chairman of the Free Democratic Party of Germany Christian Lindner said. In his opinion, Europe should make advances to the Russian Federation. “We must give Putin an opportunity to break the deadlock of escalation, […]

A French prosecutor said on Sunday that a man arrested last week after a police raid on a flat near Paris had a direct connection with the Islamic State group. Police discovered a stash of explosives in the raid last Wednesday in Villejuif, south of Paris, and found TATP, a product often used by suicide bombers. […]

Photo: TOBIAS SCHWARZ / AFP Countries that fail to take part in the quota scheme for assigning asylum seekers around the European Union could themselves be denied help in other areas, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday. “If there is no solidarity on migration, neither will there be in other areas — and that […]

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz has received Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in his office at Salam Palace in Jeddah. Lavrov conveyed greetings from Russian President Vladimir Putin to King Salman, as well discussed bilateral relations and means of boosting cooperation between the two countries. The meeting was attended by Minister of State Dr. […]

Popular Russian welcome robot Promobot, which has made headlines around the world over the past several years, surprised Vladimir Putin when he recognized him at a tech forum, and started enthusiastically introducing himself. The Russian president was making a tour of an IT exhibition in Perm, which is vying to become the country’s Silicon Valley, […]

Police found arms and ammunition in the militants’ possession and they are still looking for other militants in the area. (File photo: Reuters) Eight militants affiliated with the Brotherhood Hasm movement and other extremist groups were killed in a shootout with police in the area of Ard al-Liwa in Giza, south of Cairo. A security […]

Displaced families. File photo. Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The number of Christian families repatriated since the recapture of Nineveh province from Islamic State militants has reached nearly 3000, a local official was quoted saying Sunday. The regions of Hamadaniyah and Tel Saqf have seen the highest number of returnees since the Iraqi government declared late August the […]