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Italian police have arrested a 29-year-old asylum seeker on terror-related charges, the interior ministry said on Monday morning. “The man is believed guilty of criminal association with the aim of international terrorism and incitement to crime,” the ministry said in a statement. File photo of police on guard at a security checkpoint: Andreas Solaro/AFP Police […]

Provinces , SANA-A military source announced Monday that units of the army established control over al-Rasafah and more than 20 towns and farms in Raqqa southern countryside after eliminating hundreds of ISIS terroristhere. The source added in a statement to SANA that units of the army, in cooperation with the backup forces, established control over […]

The American student who was released last week after being held in captivity for more than 15 months in North Korea has died, his family says. Otto Warmbier, 22, returned to the US last Tuesday, but it emerged he had been in a coma for a year. North Korea said botulism led to the coma, […]

The name of the mosque, previously known as “Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Mosque,” was changed by order of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed al-Nahyan to “consolidate bonds of humanity between followers of different religions”. UAE’s Minister of State for Tolerance Sheikha Lubna al-Qasimi said the move reflected the Crown Prince’s “pure humanity […]

The Somali soldier who shot dead the country’s youngest-ever cabinet minister last month has been sentenced to death by firing squad. Abas Abdullahi Siraji was in his car near the presidential palace in Mogadishu when he was killed by Ahmed Abdullahi Abdi, who reportedly mistook him for a militant Islamist. The minister’s death caused shock and […]

Photo: AFP Police in Paris are advising the public to stay away from the Champs-Elysées on Monday afternoon after an armed man crashed his car that contained a gas canister into a police van. The driver died according to the Interior Minister, who described the incident as an “attempted terror attack”. French police launched a […]

North Korea said the US authorities have “literally mugged” its diplomatic delegation in New York, as tensions between Washington and Pyongyang soar. “Diplomats of a sovereign state are being robbed of a diplomatic package in the middle of New York where the headquarters of the United Nations is located and that serves as the venue […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government troops recaptured a mosque in western Mosul’s Old City and killed a senior Islamic State leader as troops invade the group’s Iraqi forces, which invaded the medieval Old City district on Sunday, are primarily eyeing the Nuri al-Kabeer Mosque, the place where IS supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed taking over […]

At least one man killed and 10 others injured after man runs over worshippers near Finsbury Park mosque, police say. At least one person has been killed and 10 others injured after a vehicle ran over pedestrians close to two mosques in a north London neighbourhood, UK police have said. The 48-year-old driver of the […]

Qatar’s government announces the arrival of the first group of Turkish soldiers to participate in joint drills. The Qatari defence ministry has announced the arrival of the first group of Turkish soldiers in the capital, Doha, to take part in joint military exercises. The forces conducted their first training at Tariq bin Ziyad military base […]