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Paris Police Clear 1,300 Migrants From Abandoned School: 15-Month-Old Baby Found In A Refrigerated Lorry

Paris Police Clear 1,300 Migrants From Abandoned School: 15-Month-Old Baby Found In A Refrigerated Lorry

Paris police removed more than 1,300 migrants from a disused school where were squatting on Friday morning, the last of a series of evacuations of sites judged unfit for habitation. Fourteen migrants, including a 15-month-old baby, were found in a refrigerated lorry in the north of the country. Police brought 33 coaches to transport migrants […]

Watch: Jewish Extremist Tries To Stab ‘Rabbi For Human Rights’

Watch: Jewish Extremist Tries To Stab ‘Rabbi For Human Rights’

Volunteers and activists were accompanying Palestinian olive harvesters in the West Bank to help protect them from settler attacks. A right-wing Jewish extremist threw stones at and attempted to stab president of Rabbis for Human Rights, Arik Asherman, following an olive harvest coordinated with the Israeli army on Friday. Nobody was significantly injured in the […]

Putin Accuses West Of Playing ‘Double Game’ In Syria

Putin Accuses West Of Playing ‘Double Game’ In Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of playing a “double game” with “terrorist” groups in Syria, where Moscow and a US-led coalition are conducting separate bombing campaigns. “It’s always difficult to play a double game: declaring a fight against terrorists while simultaneously trying to use some of them to arrange the pieces on the […]

US Soildier Killed By ISIS As Special Forces Rescues 70 Iraqi Hostages In Iraq

US Soildier Killed By ISIS As Special Forces Rescues 70 Iraqi Hostages In Iraq

A U.S soldier has been killed in a Special Operations raid that rescued up to 70 Kurds held hostage by ISIS in Iraq. The overnight raid, launched on a militant-run prison near the northern ISIS stronghold Hawija, has been hailed as a joint effort with Iraqi forces. Five ISIS fighters were arrested and ‘a number’ […]

700 Al Shabaab And The Islamic State Recruits Return to Kenya After Quitting

700 Al Shabaab And The Islamic State Recruits Return to Kenya After Quitting

At least 700 Kenyans have quietly returned home after quitting al Shabaab and the Islamic State in Somalia, a report says. The 36-page report, titled ‘Socio-economic and Survey of Kenya’, was prepared by the International Organization for Migration, the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims and the Interior ministry. It said the majority defected after deals […]

Lucas Kinney, Son Of British Hollywood Movie Director Converted From Catholicism To Islam Now He Is The Star Of al-Qaeda

Lucas Kinney, Son Of British Hollywood Movie Director Converted From Catholicism To Islam Now He Is The Star Of al-Qaeda

The white British son of a film director has converted from Catholicism to Islam and become an al-Qaeda fighter in Syria. Lucas Kinney, 26, has become a figurehead for the jihadis appearing in online propaganda videos designed to encourage new recruits to sign up. The first white British convert to emerge in Syria, as a […]

A Muslim Saudi Arabian Woman With A Veil Pictured Drunk And Passed Out In The Streets Of Saudi

A Muslim Saudi Arabian Woman With A Veil Pictured Drunk And Passed Out In The Streets Of Saudi

It is not a picture one expects to see coming out of Saudi Arabia: a burka-clad woman, lying down drunk in the streets of the capital. But ex-pats have revealed how this is not a surprising sight, as young Saudis do drink and take drugs at debauched gatherings despite their countries strict laws. Westerners who […]

Israelis Shoot Dead Three Palestinian ‘Knife Attackers’ Including A 16-Year-Old Boy

Israelis Shoot Dead Three Palestinian ‘Knife Attackers’ Including A 16-Year-Old Boy

Israelis shot dead three Palestinian ‘knife attackers’ in Jerusalem and Hebron today, including a 16-year-old boy. Israeli police spokesman Luba Samri said officers shot and killed the teenager in Jerusalem after he tried to stab them when they stopped to ask him for identification. The incident took place close to where two Palestinian men boarded […]

90 Percent Of People Killed In Recent Drone Strikes Were Not The Target

90 Percent Of People Killed In Recent Drone Strikes Were Not The Target

The controversial U.S. drone strike program in the Middle East aims to pinpoint and kill terrorist leaders, but new documents indicate that a staggering number of these “targeted killings” affect far more people than just their targets. According to a new report from The Intercept, nearly 90 percent of people killed in recent drone strikes […]

62 Women Arrested For Wearing Veils After Bombings In Chad

62 Women Arrested For Wearing Veils After Bombings In Chad

Chad police have arrested 62 women for wearing full veils in public as the country steps up security against following a multiple suicide bombing attack, a police spokesman said. Authorities also arrested eight suspected attackers, police spokesman Paul Manka said on Thursday. The first major arrests of women for the veil ban have been carried […]

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