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Senior IS official detained in Syria, US-led coalition says
Jun 16, 2022 (AFP)
The official -- who was not named -- is an "experienced bomb maker and facilitator" and one of IS's top leaders in Syria, the coalition said. "The mission was m...
Chemical weapons watchdog 'closely monitoring' Russia's war in Ukraine
Jun 10, 2022 (AFP)
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons chief Fernando Arias met Ukraine's parliamentary chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk to discuss "the implementation ...
Chad junta chief orders 'disarmament operation' after clashes
Jun 04, 2022 (AFP)
The fighting between gold miners in Kouri Bougoudi, 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the Libyan border, also left 40 wounded. "No civilian should hold a weapon of ...
Myanmar junta says will carry out first judicial executions in decades
Jun 03, 2022 (AFP)
Four people, including former MP Phyo Zeya Thaw and democracy activist Ko Jimmy, "who were sentenced to death will be hanged according to prison procedures", Za...
French police find 'alarming' neo-Nazi arms stash
Jun 03, 2022 (AFP)
Some 200 officers detained the men, aged 45 to 53, at their homes on Tuesday near Mulhouse after intelligence services determined the group's members took part ...
Blessing at former Franco gravesite sparks Spanish army probe
Jun 02, 2022 (AFP)
"The captain who headed the company has been suspended and an investigation has been opened," the army said in a statement to AFP, without giving further detail...
50 IS fighters jailed in Syria returned to Iraq
Jun 01, 2022 (AFP)
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) handed them over at the Rabia border post, Iraq's joint operations command said in a statement. It said the captives would be...
Ankara will not await US 'permission' for new Syria offensive
May 29, 2022 (AFP)
"One cannot fight terrorism while waiting for the permission of whoever," Erdogan told a group of journalists upon returning from a visit to Azerbaijan. "What w...
'Leading' IS member arrested in Istanbul: Turkish official
May 27, 2022 (AFP)
Turkey had "no clear information" yet whether the suspect was -- as media reports had claimed -- IS leader Abu Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, the official told A...
'Andean butcher' victims laid to rest 37 years later
May 25, 2022 (AFP)
A funeral ceremony was held in the isolated Andean village of Accomarca whose 500 inhabitants, most of whom speak only the native Quechua language, live off pot...
In Rome's subway, NATO tests anti-terrorism technology
May 25, 2022 (AFP)
In this case, the radar image was of a participant in the public test of a three-year NATO project aimed at detecting explosives and weapons in subways, train s...
'Andean butcher' victims' remains to be finally laid to rest, decades on
May 20, 2022 (AFP)
A funeral ceremony will take place Friday in the tiny isolated village of Accomarca where its 500 inhabitants, most of whom speak only their native Quechua lang...
'Shot in the back': Russia accused of war crimes in Ukraine
May 12, 2022 (AFP)
CNN released Thursday what it said was security camera footage showing two Ukrainian civilians shot in the back by Russian soldiers near a car dealership outsid...
Years after IS defeat, northern Iraq struggles to rebuild
May 03, 2022 (AFP)
Eight years after heavy fighting between Islamic State jihadists and the army, the reconstruction of his war-ravaged village in northern Iraq is at a standstill...
Colombian soldiers confess murders to victims' families
Apr 28, 2022 (AFP)
His wife, Eduvina Becerra, had to wait 15 years to hear his murderers confess and ask for forgiveness. It happened during a historic two-day hearing of a specia...
Bosnian ex-general sentenced for jihadists' war crimes
Apr 28, 2022 (AFP)
Sakib Mahmuljin, 69, was tried for his role at the top of the command chain of foreign fighters that executed more than 50 Bosnian Serb prisoners of war in Vozu...
Retired Colombian soldiers admit to murder of 120 civilians
Apr 26, 2022 (AFP)
It was the first public admission by the former soldiers that they had made people disappear before killing them in cold blood. One general, four colonels and f...
Peace tribunal identifies 4,600 killings of Colombian leftists
Apr 22, 2022 (AFP)
The victims were members of the Patriotic Union (UP) communist party that was formed in the 1980s during an attempt by then-president Belisario Betancur to make...
IS vows 'revenge' for ex-leader's death
Apr 17, 2022 (AFP)
"We announce, relying on God, a blessed campaign to take revenge" over the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi and the group's former spokesman, an audio message at...
Fears rise in Ukraine of use of chemical weapons
Apr 12, 2022 (AFP)
While the West and Kyiv have been warning Moscow since the start of its invasion on February 24 against any use of chemical weapons, fears have grown this week ...
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