A gunbattle between militants and Afghan security forces raged at a prison in the eastern city of Jalalabad on August 3, Monday, with at least 24 people killed after the overnight assault led to a mass jailbreak. The attack began on August 2, Sunday evening with car bomb detonated at the prison gate, and there…
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Kabul explosion killed imam
Kabul bomb explosion inside a mosque killed two people, including the imam, and wounding two others an official of Afghanistan government said. Two killed and two injured in bomb attack inside Kabul mosque https://t.co/St8ATy3jLB pic.twitter.com/KzD7VbmCoT — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 2, 2020 No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic State…
Borrell: Afghan people deserve peace
“There are few words that can do justice to the horrors we have witnessed today in Afghanistan. At the same moment an attack was targeting a maternity ward in Kabul, a terrorist detonated his bomb in the middle of a funeral in Nangarhar. Dozens of innocent civilians were killed or injured in these most reprehensible…
Italy: 150 migrants landed at night
There were four migrant landings overnight at Lampedusa bringing a total to more than 150 migrants onto the island between Sicily and Libya, ANSA news agency reports. Migrant hotspot of the island has been already so full that the coronavirus checks were carried out on the harbour side. Quattro sbarchi in poche ore a Lampedusa…
Release of 5K Taliban prisoners
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani issued a decree promising to release 1,500 prisoners belonging to Taliban as a goodwill gesture to get intra-Afghan negotiations started. (Image: social media) Afghanistan's President Ghani signs decree to release 1,500 Taliban fighters https://t.co/2oeOcTcXF0 pic.twitter.com/yIj6cXrM7h — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) March 11, 2020 A recent peace deal signed between the United…
Idlib: ceasefire from midnight
Presidents of Russian and Turkey signed a new memorandum on Idlib after five hours talks in Moscow. Vladimir Putin and Tayyp Recep Erdogan signed a document, agreeing on ceasefire from Midnight, safety corridors, resumption of patrols. – ceasefire today at midnight. – A safety corridor along the M-4 highway in Syria. – resumption of joint…
MAVRIDES: Erdogan supports jihadists in Idlib
During February Plenary the Members of European Parliament discussed the crisis in Idlib, reacting upon aggravated hostilités between Syrian Army and groups of Islamist fighers, backed by Turkey. The ongoing shelling caused a new ordeal for civilians in de-escalation zone in Idlib, agreed between Ankara and Moscow (2018) to protect refugees and prevent the flow…
London jihadist released on licence
The assailant who strapped a fake bomb vest to his chest before stabbing two people in South London had been released from prison just days earlier, The Sun reports. #SudeshAmman “smiled & laughed throughout the Old Bailey hearing including when Judge Mark Lucraft QC told him he was facing a custodial sentence of 'some length’.”…
Norway government turmoil over jihad
Norway Progress Party announced it was leaving the right-wing coalition government over the repatriation of an alleged Islamic State member and her two children last week. “We don’t compromise with people who have voluntarily joined terror organisations,” party leader Siv Jensen told reporters in Oslo. “We don’t get enough of the Progress Party’s policies through,”…
EU renews terrorist list
The Council today renewed the so-called EU terrorist list, which sets out persons, groups and entities subject to restrictive measures with a view to combating terrorism. Persons, groups and entities on the list are subject to the freezing of their funds and other financial assets in the EU. It is also prohibited for EU operators…
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