Exclusive: Turkish intelligence helped ship arms to Syrian Islamist rebel areas
ADANA, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey’s state intelligence agency helped deliver arms to parts of Syria under Islamist rebel control during late 2013 and early 2014, according to a prosecutor and court testimony from gendarmerie officers seen by Reuters.
U.S. to deliver 2,000 anti-tank weapons to Iraq, Pentagon says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Thursday the United States would deliver 2,000 AT-4 anti-tank rockets to Iraq as early as next week, 1,000 more than announced on Wednesday, to help Baghdad combat suicide car bombings by Islamic State.
Tunisia says Moroccan held in Italy supplied weapons for museum attackers
TUNIS/MILAN (Reuters) – The Moroccan arrested in Italy on suspicion of involvement in the Islamist militant attack on Tunisia’s Bardo Museum provided the weapons, a Tunisian official told Reuters on Thursday.
Iran aid ship reaches Djibouti waters, waits to enter port: activist
LONDON (Reuters) – An Iranian aid ship has reached the outskirts of Djibouti’s port and is waiting for a permit to enter after Tehran agreed to an international inspection of the vessel with goods for Yemen, an activist on board said on Thursday.
Tackling the traffickers, UK hotels learn how to combat “faceless” crime
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A world away from the cotton fields of Uzbekistan and garment factories across India and Nepal, the managers of a luxury hotel group in central London are learning how to stamp out supply chain slavery and identify…
Aid groups raise fears of escalating violence in South Sudan
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rape and killing driven by revenge is spiraling to new highs in South Sudan after 18 months of fighting and the world looks the other way, according to aid groups working in world’s youngest country.
Cambodia takes first refugees from Australia in aid-for-refugees deal
PHNOM PENH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cambodia has agreed to take four refugees held by Australia on the Pacific island of Nauru, kickstarting a controversial deal under which Phnom Penh will receive an extra A$40 million ($30 million) in aid in re…
Chile president seeks to put focus back on reforms after scandals
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet acknowledged her government had endured a difficult few months and sought in her annual State of the Union address on Thursday to regain the political initiative by outlining the details of a raf…
Obama: ‘I don’t think we’re losing’ fight with Islamic State: Atlantic
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said the fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to Islamic State militants was a “tactical setback” but in an interview released on Thursday he said that “I don’t think we’re losing” the fight against the gr…
Two killed in running street battles in Burundi’s capital
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Street battles and gunfire erupted again in the capital on Thursday as protesters against President Pierre Nkurunziza rejected his calls for calm in Burundi, an ethnic tinderbox with a history of civil war and genocide.
