Exclusive: Walkout at Taliban leadership meeting raises specter of split
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – At the Taliban meeting this week where Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was named as the Islamist militant group’s new head, several senior figures in the movement, including the son and brother of late leader Mullah Omar, …
Israeli soldiers shoot dead Palestinian near Gaza border: medics
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian medical officials said.
Al Qaeda in Syria says detains U.S.-trained rebels
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s Syria wing said on Friday it had detained members of a Syrian rebel group who had just returned from U.S. training, in a direct challenge to Washington’s plan to train and equip insurgents to combat the hard-line Islamic S…
Palestinian toddler killed in West Bank; Jewish arsonists suspected
DUMA, West Bank (Reuters) – Suspected Jewish attackers torched a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank on Friday, killing an 18-month-old child and seriously injuring his parents and brother, an act that Israel’s prime minister described as terror…
Early poll prospects grow as Turkish air strikes muddy coalition talks
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey looks increasingly likely to face an early election as its air strikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq and Islamic State in Syria stir nationalist sentiment and coalition talks make little apparent progress.
Germany suspends treason probe against news website
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany has suspended a treason investigation into a news website while experts decide whether its articles on plans to increase state surveillance of online communications constituted a revelation of state secrets.
Reports of Haqqani network founder’s death, but family denies
WANA/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Family members on Friday denied reports of the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the fearsome Haqqani militant network blamed for some of Afghanistan’s deadliest suicide attacks.
In a Yemen hospital, malnutrition menaces young lives
SANAA (Reuters) – Born just before the outbreak of Yemen’s devastating war, Ali Mohammed al-Tawaari may well not survive it.
Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish PKK militant targets in northern Iraq: media
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish warplanes struck Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq on Friday, CNN Turk television reported, in Ankara’s latest push against Kurdish militants.
NATO agrees plan to strengthen Iraq’s army
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO will help Iraq reform and strengthen its security forces which are reeling from a near collapse a year ago in the face of an offensive by Islamic State fighters, NATO said on Friday.
