Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

The Turku Market Square on August 19, the day after the deadly attack. Image: Vesa Moilanen / Lehtikuva Finnish police have added the names of four more individuals to a remand hearing scheduled for Tuesday in Southwest Finland’s District Court, in the wake of a deadly attack in Turku’s Market Square on Friday evening. Four Moroccan […]

All photos: AFP Makeshift memorials have sprung up on Las Ramblas where a terrorist attack claimed the lives of 13 people and injured more than one hundred others. The broad avenue that was the site of such bloodshed on Thursday has now been transformed into a place of remembrance and defiance with a carpet of […]

  The Russian air force has destroyed a large column of Islamic State militants, vehicles and large caliber weapons heading to the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, the Russian defense ministry has said. TrendsIslamic State, Russian anti-terror op in Syria “The Russian Air Force destroyed another large column of ISIS fighters that was heading to the […]

The US navy said it will investigate how the collision off the coast of Singapore occurred [File: Reuters] Five sailors also reported injured after navy destroyer USS McCain collides with a tanker in waters east of Singapore. At least 10 sailors are missing after a US navy guided-missile destroyer collided with a tanker in waters east […]

Erna Solberg. Photo: Torstein Bøe / NTB scanpix Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has come in for sharp criticism after being quoted as saying the Nazis and the extreme left had “much in common”. The comments by Solberg were published by the Dagbladet newspaper on August 11th in response to a neo-Nazi demonstration in Kristiansand – not to last […]

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani said a postponement of the controversial referendum on independence from Baghdad set for September 25 is out of the question. Speaking to Okaz daily based in Jeddah, Barzani denied accepting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s request to postpone the vote, saying he told Tillerson that the […]

An Isis group poster in the central Syrian town of Al-Sukhnah in August 2017. File photo: Stringer/AFP Italy said on Saturday it had deported two Moroccans and a Syrian on security grounds, lifting to 202 the number of potentially dangerous Islamists expelled since January 2015. The announcement came as security was raised after vehicle attacks […]

Iraqi forces continue to advance into the western axis. (File photo: AFP) Hours after announcing the launch of Tal Afar battle, Iraqi forces have liberated restricted areas in the west of Tal Afar, reported an Al Arabiya correspondent while quoting Raed Jawdat’s team. READ ALSO: Iraq launches operations to retake Tal Afar from ISIS Jawdat also […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo: Pool Presidential Press Service/AP/DPA President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday told German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel to “know your limits” after he vehemently criticised the Turkish leader for interfering in Germany’s upcoming elections. “He knows no limits! Who are you to talk to the president of Turkey? Know your […]

PM Haider al-Abadi announces ground operation to retake the northern city, telling ISIL fighters ‘surrender, or die’. Iraqi forces have launched a ground offensive to retake a key ISIL-held area in the northern part of the country, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said. “You either surrender, or die”, Abadi said in a televised speech announcing the […]