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Man opens fire on employees inside a downtown package delivery facility before taking his own life. A driver armed with a handgun opened fire at a United Parcel Service Inc package-sorting center in San Francisco on Wednesday, killing three people before fatally shooting himself as officers closed in. Wednesday’s shooting prompted a massive police response […]

slamic clerics in Austria have produced a 9-point declaration, calling ISIS terrorists “black sheep” and urging fellow believers to play a greater role in society, days after Austria introduced a burqa ban and compulsory integration courses. 300 imams representing the mainstream Islamic Religious Authority of Austria unveiled a text that “condemns terrorist and extremist acts […]

ehicle explosion followed by gunfire heard outside a restaurant in the Somali capital A car bomb has detonated outside a restaurant in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing at least nine people and wounding several others, police said. Heavy gunfire followed the attack claimed by the armed group al-Shabab. Witnesses told Reuters news agency that the […]

German police admitted on Wednesday that they asked organizers to suspend the Rock am Ring festival earlier this month after two misspelled names led them to suspect radical Islamists were working there. The names belonged to two employees of a Frankfurt-based company that had been subcontracted to set up the stages at the festival. The […]

(SyriaNews.media) The Syrian Democratic Forces captured the Briton known as “Jihadi Jack”, who joined the Islamic State in Syria in 2014, Qasioun News reported on Wednesday. The 21-year-old Jack Letts (Known as Jihadi Jack) is currently imprisoned by Kurdish forces, however, he claimed abandoning the Islamic State group and its ideology. Jihadi Jack also claimed […]

Rome’s mayor, Virginia Raggi, on Tuesday asked the interior ministry for migrant arrivals to the capital to be suspended. “I find it impossible, as well as risky, to think up further accommodation structures,” said Raggi in a letter sent to Paola Basilone, the prefect of Rome, in which she called for a “moratorium” on further […]

Huge fire engulfs tower block in west London  Fire engulfed a 24-storey housing block in central London, killing at least six people and injuring at least 74 others in an inferno that trapped residents as they slept. Flames raced through the high-rise Grenfell Tower block of apartments in the north Kensington area after taking hold […]

A US Republican politician and aides have been shot during baseball practice in Virginia, US reports say. Police in the upmarket Washington DC suburb of Alexandria said they were investigating a “multiple shooting” and a suspect was in custody. US media said House of Representatives Majority Whip Steve Scalise and aides had been hit by […]

Figures reported by the Turkish media show more than 50,000 people were arrested for links to FETÖ after the July 15 coup bid last year and more than 55,000 suspects were released pending trial, as the government expands its crackdown on the terrorist group M Police escort 11 FETÖ suspects to the courthouse after their […]

Critical lawmaker highlights ‘humanitarian nightmare’ in Yemen war as reason not to transfer $500m in bombs to Riyadh. Washington DC – The US Senate on Tuesday narrowly averted a bid by a bipartisan group of senators to block President Donald Trump’s $500m sale of guided, air-to-ground bombs for use in Yemen by Saudi Arabia’s Royal […]