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The international community and shipping firms should intensify patrols along the Somalia coastline to eliminate piracy that is slowly crawling back after a five year lull, a senior UN official has said. Yury Fedotov, the Executive Director of the UN office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned in a statement issued in Nairobi late Wednesday […]

The United Arab Emirates should clarify its role in the apparent Saudi-led coalition attack on a boat carrying Somali civilians off the western coast of Yemen, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the prime minister and defense minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum. The UAE should also provide information on the role of […]

Tension has risen since the US Navy fired 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield last week in response to a deadly gas attack  North Korea denounced the United States on Friday for bringing “huge nuclear strategic assets” to the Korean peninsula as a U.S. aircraft carrier group headed for the region amid concerns the […]

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) French Ministry of Defense announced, via a tweet, that the French troops conducted four air strikes and 58 artillery shelling on the headquarters of the Islamic State group in Iraq, during this week. According to the ministry, French warplanes carried out 27 sorties in Iraq, this week, including 4 air strikes, destroying 4 […]

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon says US forces in Afghanistan dropped the military’s largest non-nuclear bomb on an Daesh target in Afghanistan. Adam Stump, a Pentagon spokesman, says it was the first-ever combat use of the bomb, known as the GBU-43, which he said contains 11 tons of explosives. The Air Force calls it the Massive Ordnance […]

Armed men picked up two; a third showed signs of torture Security forces on patrol in Sinaloa. Three bodies are reported to have been thrown from an airplane today as it flew over the city of Eldorado, Sinaloa, about 50 kilometers southwest of the capital, Culiacán. One landed on the roof of a family health […]

A bus driver in Lower Saxony faces a hefty fine after he repeatedly denied a Muslim woman wearing a niqab entry onto his bus. A police spokesman in Leer, Lower Saxony said on Thursday that the driver was being investigated for an administrative offence, with the fine possibly rising to €10,000. The woman was pregnant […]

President Donald Trump’s recent actions in Syria have even some of his strongest supporters worried that he might be falling for a neoconservative agenda U.S. President Donald Trump started out as a wild card candidate, daring to speak out about topics his opponents would not even think of bringing up during the hotly contested 2016 […]

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said a suspected chemical weapons attack was a “fabrication” to justify a US strike on his forces. The embattled leader, whose country has been ravaged by six years of war, said his firepower had not been affected by the attack ordered by US President Donald Trump, but acknowledged further strikes were […]

Man “patrolling” to impose what he calls “the civil part of the sharia law” has community leaders, police on watch. Abdullah Rashid, 22, a Georgia native who moved to Cedar-Riverside last year, says his group, General Presidency of the Religious Affairs and Welfare of the Ummah, is trying to enforce what he calls “the civil […]