Dozens of people in Afghanistan and Pakistan were killed after heavy snow and avalanches hit over the weekend. In eastern Afghanistan, at least 50 people died and dozens more were missing on Sunday after an avalanche buried a village in Nuristan, provincial governor Hafiz Abdul Qayum said....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia on Saturday launched an arrest campaign tracking corrupted members and officials of People’s Protection Units(YPG), including a woman within what so-called the “Law of People” in the province of Hasaka, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Saturday....
(Washington Post)- A U.S. commando raid in Yemen that set off a fierce firefight revealed the growing strength of an al-Qaeda affiliate that has targeted both the United States and Europe in recent years. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, as the branch is known, had collected...
A top rebel commander in eastern Ukraine was killed when his automobile exploded, along with another person, rebels said Saturday, blaming Ukraine's special services for the blast. Ukraine's military, meanwhile said three soldiers were killed in shelling over the past day. Fighting...
