Today in Mosul: Retaken Parts of ISIS Stronghold Return to Life
Ms. Callimachi, a Times correspondent who reports on jihadist groups, is in Iraq to cover the battle against the Islamic State.
‘Death to America’: Thousands rally in Iran celebrating Islamic Revolution (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump was today’s star in Tehran pic.twitter.com/4qiugTUTFA — Ali Hashem علي هاشم (@alihashem_tv) February 10, 2017 On the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, which saw the ousting of the former US-backed House of Pahlavi, a flood of protesters headed towards Tehran’s Azadi (Freedom) Square with Iranian flags, celebrating the rule of the…
Lawyer’s bitcoin bribe bid backfires after bizarre whistleblower info offer
Wearing a wig and using the moniker ‘Dan’, Jeffrey Wertkin wanted payment in the cryptocurrency and in return would swap the case details to the accused tech firm. Wertkin, 40, a former partner at law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, contacted a “high ranking” employee at an unnamed California tech firm last…
No return to PACE before restrictions are lifted – Russian Duma chief
“We are not returning to PACE until they cancel the discriminating norms in their regulations that allow a small number of PACE members to deprive entire national delegations of the right to vote.
House of Commons Speaker Bercow faces no confidence vote over Trump remarks
Earlier this week Bercow told MPs that Trump should not be allowed to address Parliament because the US president is “racist” and “sexist.” Bercow said addressing Parliament is “not an automatic right” but an “earned honor.
Russian airstrike which killed Turkish troops in Syria followed Ankara data – Kremlin
Moscow and Ankara agree that the outcome of the airstrike, which killed three Turkish soldiers and injured 11 others in northern Syria on Thursday, was not deliberate and was due to miscommunication on the positioning data, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
Kremlin says Turkey provided intel for ‘friendly fire’ strikes
MOSCOW Russian air strikes that accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers in Syria were launched based on coordinates provided to Russia by the Turkish military, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
U.S., China military planes come inadvertently close over South China Sea
WASHINGTON A U.S. Navy P-3 plane and a Chinese military aircraft came close to each other over the South China Sea in an incident the Navy believes was inadvertent, a U.S.