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Report: 115 PKK rebels killed in recent Turkish operations

 Turkish military operations in the southeast have killed 115 Kurdish rebels since Dec. 15, a state-run news agency reported Monday. Most of the casualties were centered in the southeastern towns of Cizre and Silopi, both under 24-hour curfew, with 98 rebels killed, according to Anadolu...

Tunisia dismantles cell recruiting women for militants

Tunisia said on Monday it has dismantled a cell in the northern region of Bizerte recruiting women to marry militants fighting abroad and has made four arrests. The interior ministry said in a statement that anti-terrorist units led the operation to bust the “takfiri” radical Sunni Muslim...

ISIS preventing civilians leaving Ramadi before attack

 ISIS militants are preventing civilians from leaving Ramadi ahead of an attack planned by the Iraqi army to retake the western city that the militants captured in May, an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Monday. "There are families that managed to escape the gangs of Daesh," the...

Libya sovereign fund assets must remain frozen

One of the would-be chairmen of Libya's $67 billion sovereign wealth fund said Monday that it would be wrong to unfreeze the fund's assets following last week's agreement to form a national unity government. AbdulMagid Breish, one of two rival chairmen of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA),...