DIYARBAKIR (TIP): Two officers and one civilian were killed when a car bomb exploded outside a police station near Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Monday, in an attack suspected to have been carried out […]
BEIRUT (TIP): His face bloodied and completely covered in dust, the little boy sits quietly, staring ahead, dazed and shocked after an apparent air strike in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Alone in an ambulance, […]
TEHRAN (TIP): The speaker of Iran’s parliament is stressing that Russia does not have a permanent military base within the Islamic Republic, a day after Moscow announced launching airstrikes on Syria from Iran. The comments […]
ANKARA (TIP): Turkey issued a decree on August 17 paving the way for the conditional release of 38,000 prisoners, the justice minister said, an apparent move to reduce its prison population to make space for […]
MOSCOW/DUBAI (TIP): Saudi Arabia is sending signals that it could boost its crude oil supplies in August to a new record level, overtaking Russia, the world’s top oil producer, as it gets ready for tough […]
ISTANBUL (TIP): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that US State Secretary John Kerry intends to visit this month, in what would be the first trip by a top Western dignitary since a failed putsch. […]
TEHRAN (TIP): Iran has executed a group of 20 “terrorist” Sunni prisoners for committing several murders and undermining national security, state media reported. “These people had committed murder… killed women and children, caused destructions and […]
BEIRUT (TIP): The Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra Front, announced on July 28 it was breaking ties with the global terror network, in a video showing its leader Abu Mohamad al-Jolani for the first time. […]
TEHRAN (TIP): Iran has arrested 40 members of a “terrorist group” who plotted to attack military targets in the southeast of the country, the interior minister said on July 21. Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, […]
JERUSALEM (TIP): A Palestinian fatally stabbed a 13-year-old girl inside her home in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on June 30, before guards shot him dead, the military and hospital officials said. […]
MOGADISHU (TIP): At least 18 civilians were killed when a roadside bomb went off on June 30 in Somalia’s Lafole town, southwest of the capital, blowing up a packed mini-bus that was passing by, police […]
LAGOS (TIP): Nearly 200 refugees fleeing from Boko Haram have died of starvation and dehydration in the northeastern Nigerian city of Bama in the past month, Doctors Without Borders said on June 23. The refugees […]
LONDON (TIP): A pro-ISIS “hacking” group calling itself the United Cyber Caliphate distributed its latest “kill” list this week. The group claims the list includes names, addresses, and email addresses belonging to 8,318 people, making it one of the longest target lists […]
LONDON (TIP): The threat of a terrorist attack using nuclear material is the highest since the end of the Cold War, with ISIS actively trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction, according to a leading […]
NEW DELHI: Qatar has reassured India that labour reforms will improve the conditions of more than half a million Indian migrants, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised concerns of abuses during a weekend visit to […]
CAIRO (TIP): The iron blade of an ornate dagger buried in Egypt with King Tutankhamen probably came from a fallen meteorite, researchers have determined — a form of metal so prized by ancient Egyptians that […]
UNITED STATES (TIP): The UN envoy for Syria told the Security Council on Thursday that he has no plans to convene a new round of peace talks in the next two or three weeks, diplomats […]
TEHRAN (TIP): Under the ornate chandeliers inside Saadabad palace’s atrium, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani by his side, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 23 quoted a Persian couplet by Mirza Ghalib to describe India’s ties […]
LONDON (TIP): A woman who said she wanted to marry the terrorist known as “Jihadi John” has been jailed for four and a half years for spreading Isis propaganda. Zafreen Khadam was jailed at Sheffield […]
DUBAI (TIP): A mother of six in Saudi Arabia has burnt her house after learning that her husband had gone abroad for a second honeymoon, a media report said today. The woman, who has been […]
CAIRO (TIP): A massive search was underway on Friday, May 20, for the wreckage of an EgyptAir plane en route from Paris to Cairo that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board, […]
DUBAI (TIP): A woman was fined and ordered to be deported from the United Arab Emirates for breaching her husband’s privacy by checking his cell phone to see if he was cheating on her, Gulf […]
CAIRO (TIP): An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board crashed in the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete early May 19 morning, Egyptian and Greek officials […]
BAGHDAD (TIP): Islamic State insurgents killed at least 17 Iraqi soldiers with suicide truck bombs on May 12 in a major attack on government forces that recaptured the western city of Ramadi in December, military […]
BEIRUT (TIP): Top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed in an Israeli air strike at the Lebanese-Israeli border this week, the Lebanese Shi’ite group announced on May 13, the biggest blow to the group since […]
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