Saudi court jails al Qaeda recruiters, bin Laden associate: newspaper
DUBAI (Reuters) – A Saudi court has jailed at least 13 men on counts including the recruitment of al Qaeda militants for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and sheltering Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Saudi newspapers said on Tuesday.
Boko Haram mine kills two soldiers in southeast Niger: ministry
NIAMEY (Reuters) – A mine planted by Islamist militant group Boko Haram killed at least two soldiers on Tuesday in the town of Bosso in Niger’s southeastern region of Diffa, Niger’s defence ministry said.
Gunmen in Afghanistan halt buses, seize 30 passengers
KANDAHAR (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen in southern Afghanistan stopped two buses traveling to the capital, Kabul, and seized around 30 people belonging to the ethnic Hazara minority, a bus company official said on Tuesday.
French lawmakers in first Damascus visit for three years
PARIS (Reuters) – A cross-party group of French lawmakers held talks with Syrian officials in Damascus on Tuesday, the first such contacts in the Syrian capital since the closure of France’s embassy there in 2012.
One in three Germans say capitalism to blame for poverty, hunger
BERLIN (Reuters) – Nearly a third of Germans believe that capitalism is the cause of poverty and hunger and a majority think true democracy is not possible under that economic system, according to a survey published on Tuesday by the Emnid polling inst…
Turkish PM says exercised ‘international rights’ in Syrian tomb operation
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Turkey exercised its international rights when it sent troops into neighboring Syria in a mission to evacuate soldiers guarding the tomb of Suleyman Shah, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday.
Turkey says official Libyan government targeting its companies there
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey accused Libya on Tuesday of targeting its companies there after the internationally recognized government said it would cancel contracts of Turkish businesses operating in the troubled north African state.
UK security committee head to leave parliament over cash-for-access scandal
LONDON (Reuters) – One of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s most senior lawmakers said on Tuesday he would step down as head of parliament’s security committee and leave the House of Commons in May after becoming embroiled in a cash-for-access sca…
Special Report: How Iran’s military chiefs operate in Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The face stares out from multiple billboards in central Baghdad, a grey-haired general casting a watchful eye across the Iraqi capital. This military commander is not Iraqi, though. He’s Iranian.
Egypt’s Sisi issues decree widening scope of security crackdown
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has signed off on an anti-terrorism law that gives authorities more sweeping powers to ban groups on charges ranging from harming national unity to disrupting public order.
