Belgian police arrested 16 more people in late-night raids searching for those behind the deadly Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, but failed to find a prime suspect as the government locked down the capital for a third day on Monday. Brussels will again see its metro and many shops closed,[…]
The suspected mastermind of last week’s Paris attacks was killed in the police raid of an apartment north of the capital, French officials said on Thursday. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian militant who had boasted of mounting attacks in Europe for the Islamic State, was accused of orchestrating last Friday’s[…]
A woman suicide bomber blew herself up and another militant died on Wednesday when police raided an apartment in the Paris suburb of St. Denis seeking suspects in last week’s attacks in the French capital. Three sources told Reuters the raid stopped a cell that had been planning an attack[…]
French police have launched a raid in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris, in an operation to track down suspects of Friday’s deadly attacks in the capital. Suspects were holed up in an apartment in the northern suburb early on Wednesday after shooting broke out during the raid by heavily armed[…]
French and Belgian police have carried out more than 150 raids in both countries and arrested at least nine people in connection with the deadly Paris attacks . Monday’s early-morning raids by French police took place in Toulouse, Paris, Jeumont and Grenoble, among other locations where officers blocked streets and[…]
One member of a U.S. special operations force was killed during an overnight mission to rescue hostages held by Islamic State radicals in northern Iraq, the first American to die in ground combat with the radical group, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Sixty-nine hostages were rescued in the action, which[…]
Israeli forces and intelligence officers raided the home of a Palestinian teenager accused of stabbing an Israeli man in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday, witnesses said. Locals told Ma’an that large numbers of Israeli special unit forces broke into the home of Shuroq Salah Dwayat, 18, in the[…]
A gun battle erupted late Monday during a large-scale Israeli arrest raid in the northern city of Jenin, reportedly to arrest a senior Islamic Jihad official, security sources and locals said. Palestinian security officials said over 40 Israeli military vehicles raided Jenin and the refugee camp in the city, leading[…]
Three men are expected to appear in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Monday for the possession of contraband worth R150 000, police confirmed on Friday. Spokesperson Captain FC Van Wyk said a tip-off to the Border Police’s Cape Town Harbour station on Wednesday led to the seizure of illegally obtained[…]
Niger’s government says Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 38 people in southeast of the country, with most of the victims women and children. “Members of the Boko Haram terrorist group have attacked the villages of Lamana and Ngoumao… The initial death toll is 38 civilians, among them 14[…]
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