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Turkey continues to pound PKK targets

Turkish jets are continuing to pound Kurdistan Workers’ Party targets in northern Iraq. Ankara says many of the PKK’s fighters have been killed

Turkey

Turkey pledges to wipe out the PKK after the Kurdish separatist group killed 16 soldiers on Sunday

Premises belonging to or being used by the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party – the HDP – were attacked across Turkey on Monday. Turkish

Turkey

Turkey vows to clear PKK stronghold as violence grows

Turkish aircraft have launched retaliatory airstrikes on PKK positions in the country’s mountainous southeast region. After Kurdish bombing kills 16

Yemen

A bloody day in Yemen

With a double bomb attack and the shooting of two aid workers, Wednesday was a bloody day in Yemen. The Yemeni branch of the group calling itself

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Syria

Syria: enormous car bomb rocks Latakia

An enormous car bomb has been detonated in a city in Northern Syria. At least ten people have been killed and dozens more injured in the explosion in

Thailand

Bangkok bombing: eighth arrest warrant issued

Police in Thailand have issued an eighth arrest warrant in connection with last month’s deadly bomb attack at a popular Bangkok shrine. Turkish

Yemen

More civilian deaths in Saudi-led air raids on suspected Houthi targets

Saudi-led air strikes pounded several targets in Yemen on Sunday. In the northern province of Hajjah at least 36 civilians were killed while

Afghanistan

Suspected 'insider attack' kills two NATO soldiers in Afghanistan

AFP reports two members of NATO’s remaining force in Afghanistan have been killed in the south-west of the country. They died along with two

France

France: Terror charge for train shooting suspect Ayoub el Khazzani

Suspected Islamist gunman Ayoub el Khazzani has been formally charged with attempted murder with terrorist intent. Four days after being overpowered

France

France opens terror probe into train shooting suspect Ayoub el Khazzani

France has opened an investigation for attempted murder with terrorist intent into suspected Islamist gunman Ayoub el Khazzani, the heavily-armed

Yemen

Civilians pay heavy price as Yemen violence rages

Civilians were caught in the crossfire again as Yemen’s civil war raged on Monday. Saudi-led airstrikes in the Red Sea port area of al Hodeidah

Germany

Germany: stones thrown at migrant buses entering Heidenau shelter

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has condemned anti-migrant violence in the eastern-German town of Heidenau. “We must never tolerate people in our

Thailand

Bangkok bombing: at least 10 people involved, foreign terrorism 'unlikely'

Thailand

International terror link to Bangkok bomb 'unlikely' - Thai junta

Thailand’s military junta says Monday’s deadly bomb attack in Bangkok was “unlikely” to be the work of international terrorists. According to the

Egypt

Cairo car bomb wounds six police officers

A car bomb near a state security building and a court house in a Cairo suburb has left at least six police officers wounded. There are no confirmed

Tunisia

Police officer shot dead in Tunisia resort of Sousse

Two Islamist militants riding a motorbike shot dead a Tunisian police officer on Wednesday in the beach resort of Sousse, where a gunman killed 38

Thailand

Funerals held for Bangkok bomb dead

The first funerals of those who died in the Bangkok bombing have been held in the Thai capital. Monday’s explosion claimed the lives of twenty people

Turkey

Turkish soldiers killed in an attack in Siirt province

Eight soldiers are reportedly dead after a bomb attack in Siirt province, while Turkish police are shot at outside a palace in Istanbul.

Thailand

Thai police issue arrest warrant for man wanted in connection with Bangkok bombing

This follows from CCTV footage released showing the suspect leaving a backpack and walking away from the Erawan shrine minutes before the explosion.

Thailand

Thai police suspect Bangkok bomber did not act alone

The shrine in central Bangkok where at least 20 people died in Monday's bomb attack, reopens to the public allowing for flowers to be laid and for prayers to be said for the victims.

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