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President Emmanuel Macron will set up a national counter-terrorism centre to coordinate France’s intelligence services, his office said. The announcement came a day after an attack on a policeman in Paris. The new task force, which will have around 20 staff answering directly to Macron, will be in charge of providing “strategic guidance to the intelligence services”, […]

  US Defense Secretary James Mattis said in a televised interview this week that an Iranian plot to kill the then Saudi ambassador to Washington Adel al-Jubeir was an “operation approved at the highest level.” Jubeir, who now serves as the Saudi foreign minister, had been a target of the failed assassination attempt in 2011. […]

Gunmen and suicide bombers raided Iran’s Parliament and the Imam Khomeini’s Mausoleum in Tehran on Wednesday, killing at least a dozen people and injuring 42 others. The attack on the Parliament triggered a five-hour standoff that ended with all assailants dead. The assaults began in the mid-morning when four gunmen burst into the Parliament complex […]

President Trump spoke by phone Wednesday with the leader of Qatar, offering to help resolve a tense diplomatic crisis between that country and other Gulf states over financing of terrorism and other issues. The White House said Mr. Trump “offered to help the parties resolve their differences, including through a meeting at the White House […]

There has been a Somali community in Britain since 1914, when men were recruited under the British empire to fight in WW1. Between the 1940s and 1960s, “seamen” returned to work on British docks before a mass exodus of Somalis took place between the 80s and early 2000s due to the Somali Civil War. Today, […]

Qatar is seeking to secure food and water supplies to stave off possible shortages amid worsening Gulf diplomatic rift. Qatar is talking to Iran and Turkey about securing food and water supplies to stave off possible shortages two days after its biggest suppliers, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, cut trade and diplomatic ties, […]

Signing the agreement with Somalia will facilitate the Indian inmates imprisoned in Somalia India will soon sign a pact with Somalia for exchange of sentenced prisoners as the Union Cabinet today gave its nod for it. A meeting of the cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gave its approval for signing and subsequent ratification […]

Following the twin terrorist attacks in the Iranian capital, the country’s Interior Ministry has released a statement giving the details of the deadly incidents. The full text of the statement released by the Iranian Interior Ministry on the Wednesday terrorist attacks on Tehran is as follows: On Wednesday, two terrorist teams simultaneously tried to conduct […]

Several killed in attacks on parliament and Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran, as ISIL claims responsibility.  Gunmen and suicide bombers have attacked Iran’s parliament in central Tehran and the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in south of the city, killing several people. Four armed assailants attacked parliament office buildings on Wednesday morning, while the shrine of […]