More than a dozen Turkish soldiers have sustained injuries in a roadside bomb explosion that targeted their military vehicle in Turkey’s southeastern and Kurdish-populated province of Hakkari, according to PressTv.ir. The Turkish General Staff said in a statement on Monday that militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) detonated an Read more…
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive and hiding in Syria, despite Russian reports of his death, Iraqi and Kurdish counter-terrorism officials have said, quoted by The Telegraph.co.uk. “Baghdadi is definitely alive. He is not dead. We have information that he is alive. We believe 99 percent he Read more…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was behind a series of hacks that sparked regional discord and isolated Qatar from its neighbors, according to a media report Sunday, quoted by Anadolu Agency. Abu Dhabi orchestrated the cyber offensive, hacking Qatar’s state-run news and social media sites “to post incendiary false quotes Read more…
Germany Confirms Two Nationals Killed in Egypt Knife Attack Berlin on Saturday said two women who were killed after being stabbed in an Egyptian beach resort were German nationals, comfirming earlier reports, according to the Local.de. “We can now sadly confirm that two German tourists died in the attack at Read more…
U.S. Defense Secretary Cannot Prove Islamic State Chief is Dead An undated file image of a frame from video released by the Islamic State group purportedly shows the caliph of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, giving a speech at an unknown location. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Read more…
In the Global Peace Index for 2017, the country is placed in the 28th place, with nearly 90 positions before the United States, Deutsche Welle said. The Global Peace Index is produced annually by a group of international organizations and experts coordinated by Sydney University and the British Economist Magazine.The Read more…
Second fake call saying there is a bomb at Sofia Airport happened after the one from 23th of June. It came from the national emergency number 112 and the caller said the explosive device was hidden somewhere in Terminal 2. The police took the necessary precautions. After thorough search nothing Read more…
23 customs officers were detained during a joint anticorruption operation conducted by the Directorate for Combatting Organised Crime and the State Agency for National Security at Kulata border crossing (border with Greece), the spokesperson of Bulgaria’s Chief Prosecutor, Roumyana Arnaudova told BNT on 14th of June. She added that 63,000 BGN Read more…
Since the beginning of the year, Bulgarian security services have detained 52 traffickers of illegal migrants, reported BNR. This was announced bt the head of Border Police Chief Commissioner Svetlan Kichikov before bTV. He specified that there were ”2054 illegal attempts to cross the border” in the same period. Last Read more…
A Bulgarian citizen was injured in the attacks in London in the night to June 4, the press office of the Foreign Affairs Ministry said. The information was sent to the Bulgarian embassy in the UK from Foreign Office. The injured man is currently treated in a hospital and is in a Read more…