Mexico says Sean Penn meeting was ‘essential’ to finding kingpin Chapo
LOS MOCHIS, Mexico (Reuters) – A secret meeting Hollywood star Sean Penn held with the world’s most-wanted drug boss, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, to discuss a magazine article was essential to finding the fugitive, Mexico’s attorney general said on Mond…
ISIS video shows destruction from U.S. airstrike on Mosul bank
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State published a video on Monday purporting to show the destruction from an airstrike on a bank in its northern Iraqi stronghold which the U.S.-led coalition said had been aimed at disrupting the group’s financing activitie…
Philippines says southern rebels not linked to Islamic State
MANILA (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have no known links with Muslim rebel groups in the Philippines, security officials said on Tuesday, dismissing a video suggesting as much as propaganda.
With Mexico’s ‘Chapo’ back behind bars, Zambada the last capo standing
CULIACAN/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s public enemy No. 1, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was nabbed last week after a gunfight and high speed getaway bid. But his more discreet partner is flourishing, moving tonnes of drugs to the United States and lau…
Russia to deploy new divisions on Western flank, form nuclear regiments
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will create three new military divisions on its Western flank in 2016 and bring five new strategic nuclear missile regiments into service, Sergei Shoigu, the country’s defense minister, was quoted as saying by news agencies on…
Kuwait court sentences two to death for spying for Iran, Hezbollah
KUWAIT (Reuters) – A Kuwaiti court sentenced two men accused of spying for Iran and Hezbollah to death on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said.
Japan sends China warning over incursions near disputed isles
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan said on Tuesday it has told China that any foreign naval vessel that enters Japanese waters for reasons other than “innocent passage” will be told to leave by a Japanese naval patrol, signaling a potential escalation in a long-r…
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi calls for all insurgents to take part in talks
NAYPYITAW (Reuters) – More of Myanmar’s ethnic minority rebel groups should be brought into peace talks and the effort to end conflict should not divide groups that are involved in negotiations and those that have shunned the process, Aung San Suu Kyi …
Suicide bomber kills two, wounds senior police officer in east Iraq: police
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomb attack critically wounded a senior Iraqi police officer and killed two of his guards on Tuesday near the eastern city of Baquba, police said.
Bombs laid by Islamic State hamper Iraqi troops in Ramadi after victory
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State militants left Ramadi’s streets and buildings boobytrapped with bombs, hampering efforts to rebuild the city two weeks after Iraq’s elite counter-terrorism forces claimed victory against the militant group there, offic…
