Turkey has captured a wife of former Islamic State (IS) group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says. On Tuesday Turkey said it had detained Baghdadi’s sister in Syria. READ ALSO Lufthansa to cancel 1,300 flights due to strike Baghdadi killed himself during a raid by US special forces on his compound in […]
The US special forces killed a senior Islamic State group leader and captured his wife in a daring raid in eastern Syria, the White House announced on Saturday. The raid was carried out at the direction of US President Barack Obama, his spokeswoman on national security matters, Bernadette Meehan said in a statement. “Last night, […]
The second-in-command of Islamic State (IS) has been killed in a US-led coalition air strike in northern Iraq, the Iraqi ministry of defense says. According to BBC, Abdul Rahman Mustafa Mohammed, also known as Abu Alaa al-Afri, was inside a mosque in Tal Afar that was targeted, spokesman Brig-Gen Tahsin Ibrahim said. He had been […]
Thirteen people, including a woman were shot dead by masked gunmen on a road in eastern Afghanistan, BBC reports. The victims were said to be taken off the bus on the highway between Kabul and Kandahar and shooting them dead, local officials say. Attahullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor of Wardak, said the […]
By Correspondent The Tunisia’s Bardo museum which was due for reopening on Tuesday morning has been delayed until Sunday, BBC reports. The attack killed no fewer than 22 people. Security concerns appear to have halted the reopening, according to the BBC’s Rana Jawad. The reopening, less than a week after the attacks, was intended to […]