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In Soweto, southwest of the South African economic capital, police were called shortly after midnight. “When we arrived, we found 12 people dead with gunshot wounds,” said Nonhlanhla Kubheka, a local police officer. A dozen wounded were taken to hospital Read more
Turkey’s police has arrested Wednesday at Istanbul airport a US diplomat (US consulate in Beirut), suspected for issuing a fake passport for a Syrian national in exchange for $10,000, Daily Sabah reports. The diplomat, not identified according to the Turkish Read more
The Islamic state group, ISIS, Sunday claimed responsibility for the overnight attack that claimed the lives of 10 Iraqi policemen in the city of Kirkuk, Reuters reports. The group active in the area took to its Amaq News Agency on Read more
Abdellatif Hammouchi, the head of the Moroccan secret services, the DGST (Formerly known as the DST, Directorate of Territory Surveillance), held talks with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Ben Hamad Al Thani in Doha. Abdellatif Hammouchi, known for his Read more
Police in Cairo have arrested a man suspected for the bomb attack near the US fortified diplomatic compound Tuesday. A bomb device went off near the US mission in the busy Egyptian capital Tuesday. Smoke arose outside concrete blast barriers Read more
Saudi Security forces have arrested a group of men posing as women trying to intrude into Mecca city to perform Hajj. Local security forces in the city of al Taif, near Mecca, stopped early this week the men who were Read more
Egyptian police officers have been barred from speaking to the media on issues regarding their work without a written approval from the Ministry of the Interior. The restrictions preventing the police from providing information to the media were approved by Read more
100,000 security forces will dispatched across the country from December 30 to ward off terrorist attacks planned by IS an attempt to inflict losses to the kingdom, reports say. Morocco daily Assabah relayed by other local media Wednesday indicates that Read more
Tunisian President has declared a state of emergency after the nascent Tunisian democracy following the 2011 Arab Spring has been rocked this year by two deadly attacks perpetrated by young Tunisian jihadists. The attacks that targeted the Bardo Museum in Read more
Sinai Province, an IS affiliated group in the Egypt Sinai Peninsular, killed Wednesday 17 Egyptian soldiers in a series of attacks against army check-points in the Sinai according to army sources. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria branch in Read more