(The Guardian)- An Irish former altar boy has become the latest suicide bomber to blow himself up as part of Islamic State’s furious defence of Mosul, its last major stronghold in Iraq. Khalid Kelly, born Terrence Edward in south Dublin in 1967, converted to Islam when serving a jail term...

At least 20 civilians have been killed and dozens injured in the past twenty-four hour of bombing, following Russian air-strikes in West Aleppo and its surrounding areas. A squadron of Russian war planes bombed a number of villages and residential areas in "revenge" missions, following a...

(Daily Sabah)- A group of suspected pro-PKK assailants attacked a building belonging to a Turkish man in Essen city located in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia by Molotov cocktails late Friday, reports said on Saturday. The attack follows a number of developments which took place on Friday,...

(The Guardian)- A Russian frigate armed with cruise missiles has passed through the Bosphorus on its way to the eastern Mediterranean in a potentially ominous development for the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo. The Admiral Grigorovich, part of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, arrived off the...