Jihadists militants in Iraq are now within the 90 kilometer range of the capital city of Baghdad after reportedly taking power over two areas in the region. Iraqi authorities seem to have been taken completely by surprise by the speed with which islamists are gaining ground. Propaganda videos reached the ... read entire article »
Two US drones sent to Pakistan have killed ten militants in response to the Taliban bloody attack on the Karachi ariport, a few days ago. The drone strikes were part of a 'joint Pakistan-US operation' and come after a six-month break in which Washington halted ... read entire article »
Islamic militants continue to gain control over larger area of western and central Iraq and eastern Syria following Wednesday's fights, in spite of military and police retaliation. After taking control of Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, and then conquering the ... read entire article »
As many as 500,000 Iraqis have fled the town of Mosul as, on the other side of the city, extremist militants are swarming in by the hundreds. The string of violence from the past days in Iraq's second largest city has resulted in 'a high number of casualtie ... read entire article »
Tuesday marked the beginning of the trial of the 14 crew members on the doomed Sewol ferry, including captain Lee Jon-seok. Grieving families of the 300 who died on the ship have been waiting for two months for this moment. They met those who came to be trialed ... read entire article »
Ukraine's elected president, Petro Poroshenko, has pledged to bring Ukraine to a cease fire by the end of this week. However, the situation in the east of the country states otherwise after pro-Russian rebels seem to be gaining more control in the region. ... read entire article »
Ukraine has almost one week to start paying in advance for Russian gas. The energy giant, Gazprom has moved the deadline for its neighbour country to next Monday. The announcement was made by Gazprom's boss to Russian media. “The Russian side has made the step ... read entire article »
The Karachi International Airport in Pakistan is once again under attack after a group of armed men approached the security checkpoints from two directions and then opened fire. The attackers were allegedly hiding in a slum area near the airport. The fight i ... read entire article »
Russia has sentenced two people to prison for life over the 2006 assassination of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Although five men were convicted, in total, only Rustam Makhmudov, who did the actual shooting, and his uncle, Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, who organized the ... read entire article »
A Eurofighter Typhoon figher jet belonging to the Spanish Air Force crashed near Seville killing the pilot. The plane was preparing to land at Moron de la Frontera airbase when the accident occurred. According to various eyewitnesses, the Eurofighter Typhone wa ... read entire article »
A rescue operation is going on in Germany after one 52-year-old man was injured in rock fall inside a 1,000 meter-deep cave. The alarm was raised by one of the man's companions after he underwent a 12-hour journey to the surface. The Riesending cave, where the ... read entire article »
One man killed by a gunman in Seattle. The suspect started shooting randomly in a college campus in Seattle, US. Police officials have confirmed the gunman was arrested and he is in police custody. A young man in his mid 20s was killed, two others were injured ... read entire article »
The Karachi International Airport in Pakistan was under a five-hour attack after ten gunmen, disguised as policemen, entered the building and opened fire in the VIP terminal. The siege of the airport resulted in 28 deaths. All ten attackers died during the fight. ... read entire article »
Former and current Taliban leaders spoke about finding and imprisoning US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, saying that they were just as confused as the Afghan villagers to find Bergdahl wandering alone off his base and mumbling curses addressed to his fellow Americans. ... read entire article »
The Chinese have commenced a never-before-seen construction plan in which they intend to bulldoze entire mountains so that they can build new cities. China plans to destroy as many as 700 mountains and then move the debris into valleys to fill them up. The next ... read entire article »
31 people have been arrested in Sicily during a night's police raid and charged with mafia-related activities like murder, conspiracy, racketeering, drugs and arms possession. Police reported that as many as five mafia clans had been brought down during the raid ... read entire article »
A total of twelve people were arrested and charged with public stoning to death a pregnant Pakistani woman last week, all of whom are first degree relatives of the victim. Farzana Parveen, 25, was killed in the city of Lahore, in front of the court, in what i ... read entire article »
Hong Kong was the place where, last night, tens of thousands of people gathered to hold a candlelight vigil to comemorate the passing of 25 years since the bloddy massacre in Tiananmen Square, when armed forces killed thousands as they shot their way through the ... read entire article »
Tensions between Russia and Western powers are higher than ever before. A Russian SU-27 fighter jet almost collided with a US reconnaissance plane over the Pacific Ocean in an aerial clash that seemed out of the Cold War. The Pentagon announced the incident that ... read entire article »
After fierce battles over the Ukrainian border command center near Luhansk passed the 17-hour limit, government troops withdrew their forces, leaving the camp in the hands of separatist militia. Ukrainian officials acknowledged, on Wednesday, their defeat ... read entire article »
