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Izmir murders. Turkish waiter, Recep Cetin appears in court.

Shannon and Recep Celik, who killed the two women near Izmir.

on was not with the women when they were attacked being on a boat trip out of Kusadasi for the day. Shannon has been in a relationship with the Turkish waiter, who had been staying with the group, for 3 years. According to some local sources, Recep Cetin had been embarrassed by the attitudes of the British women, who enjoyed late nights and the company of local men. The sources also claimed Marion…

Turkey: at least 19 people killed during clashes between Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels

At least 19 people have died in southeast Turkey after Kurdish rebels launched an attack on a Turkish border post

At least 19 people have died in southeast Turkey after Kurdish rebels launched an attack on a Turkish border post, according to local media. Rebels fired rocket launchers on an army post in Hakkari province just after midnight, NTV in Turkey said. Turkish military jets are pursuing them and bombing their escape routes, NTV said. Several thousand Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels are believed t…

Mohamed Merah has been killed by French police after 32 hours of siege

Mohamed Merah, 23, fired at officers and was found dead after jumping from a window

The French police siege in Toulouse has ended with the death of Mohamed Merah, the man suspected of killing seven people, the French interior minister has said. Police stormed the flat where Mohammed Merah was holed up at 10:30 a.m., after a siege that had lasted 32 hours. Mohamed Merah, 23, fired at officers and was found dead after jumping from a window. The self-confessed al-Qaeda militant was…

Afghanistan: 42 killed in series of suicide attacks in Nimroz and Kunduz

Forty-two people have been killed and more than 130 others wounded in a series of suicide attacks in the south-west and north of Afghanistan

erned that there will be further attacks, he says. International troops are gradually handing over responsibilities to Afghan security forces, as NATO prepares to pull out of the country by the end of 2014.  …

Sarai Sierra murder: Turkish homeless Ziya T confesses to fatally bludgeoning New York mother in Istanbul

Turkish homeless Ziya T has confessed to fatally bludgeoning Staten Island mother Sarai Sierra in Istanbul

Turkish homeless man identified as “Ziya T” has confessed to fatally bludgeoning Staten Island mother Sarai Sierra in Istanbul. The man has said his victim fought for her life for approximately 30 minutes before she went limp and he fled the scene. Ziya T, a trash collector who lives in Istanbul was detained by police as he tried to flee across the border to Syria, after spending weeks on the run…

Turkey in new Syria retaliation

Turkish military has returned fire across the border after a Syrian mortar round again landed on Turkey soil

…wed a military aircraft being shot down by rebel fighters as it bombarded towns in the eastern Ghouta area. It was unclear whether it was a helicopter or fighter jet. According to activists, more than 30,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began. The UN estimates that at least 20,000 have died….

Syria accused of being behind Beirut car bomb attack that killed Wissam al-Hassan

Anti-Syrian politicians in Lebanon have accused Damascus of being behind the car bomb attack

…d Wissam al-Hassan was among those who died. He was close to Saad Hariri, a leading critic of the government in neighboring Syria. Wissam al-Hassan led an investigation that implicated Damascus in the 2005 bombing that killed Saad Hariri’s father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He also recently organized the arrest of a former minister accused of planning a Syrian-sponsored bombing camp…

David Petraeus scandal: Head of Senate Intelligence Committee Dianne Feinstein’s fury at FBI over investigation

David Petraeus resigned while lawmakers still had questions about the September 11 attack on the US Consulate and CIA base in Benghazi

…vid Petraeus and other intelligence officials, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asked Petraeus to resign. A senior U.S. military official identified the second woman as Jill Kelley, 37, who lives in Tampa, Florida, and serves as a social liaison to the military’s Joint Special Operations Command. The U.S. official said the coalition countries represented at the military…

Syria: at least 25 people killed in two bomb attacks in country’s second city of Aleppo

At least 25 people have been killed in two bomb attacks targeting security forces compounds in Syria's second city of Aleppo

At least 25 people have been killed in two bomb attacks targeting security forces compounds in Syria’s second city of Aleppo, state media report. According to state television, the death toll included both civilians and members of the security forces and blamed “armed terrorist gangs” for the blasts. There are conflicting reports about whether the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) wa…

Ankara explosion updates. Suspected bomb killed 3 and wounded 15.

The explosion killed three people, injured at least other 15 and set several vehicles on fire in Ankara

said.   The explosion killed three people, injured at least other 15 and set several vehicles on fire in Ankara   The vehicle detonated across from the district governor’s office and about 200 meters (650 feet) from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office. “I’ve learned that people who haven’t got any sense of humanity terrorized civilians and carried out an attack in Ankara,” Pre…

Mohammed Abu Jamal Ahmed, suspect in Benghazi attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens, arrested in Cairo

Mohammed Abu Jamal Ahmed, one of the suspects in the Benghazi attack that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, has been arrested in Cairo

…at he had already secured financing for the group. Early intelligence reports suggested that Mohammed Abu Jamal Ahmed had established training camps in Libya for the fighters involved in the September 11 attack that killed four Americans, according to Journal. The White House and the Pentagon initially said the attack was a spontaneous reaction to anti-Muslim film The Innocence of Muslims directed…

Twenty Boko Haram Islamist militants killed by Nigeria army in Maiduguri

Nigerian army has killed 20 suspected members of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram in the north-east of the country

Nigerian army has killed 20 suspected members of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram in the north-east of the country. One government soldier also died in a shootout in the town of Maiduguri. Boko Haram has recently carried out numerous raids on churches and other targets in Nigeria. The group wants to establish Islamic law in the country, whose large Christian and animist population mainly li…

Iraq: 82 people killed in Baghdad in a wave of bomb attacks and shootings

Waves of bomb attacks and shootings in north of Baghdad have killed at least 82 people

e were here to shop in this market when the blast happened. Why did this happen?” It is the deadliest day in Iraq since 13 June, when another wave of bombings killed 84 people and injured nearly 300. On Sunday bombings south of the capital killed at least 17. Violence dipped in Iraq following the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, but sectarian violence has returned across the country in recent mo…

Turkish F-4 Phantom fighter jet vanishes near Syrian border

Turkish government has called an emergency security meeting amid reports that one of its fighter jets was shot down by Syrian security forces

…jets was shot down by Syrian security forces Relations between Turkey and Syria, once close allies, have deteriorated sharply since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011. The Turkish military said it lost radio contact with the F-4 at 11:58 local time on Friday while it was flying over Hatay, about 90 minutes after it took off from Erhac airbase in the province…

Syrian ministers Daoud Rajiha and Assef Shawkat killed in sucide attack in Damascus

General Assef Shawkat was a top security chief and Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law

…d’s brother-in-law In other developments: • Turkish officials report two Syrian generals are among hundreds of refugees who fled into Turkey overnight, bringing the total number of fleeing generals to 20. • Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to discuss the Syrian crisis with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The area around the national security building, in Rawda district, ha…

Syria confirms downing of Turkish F-4 Phantom warplane

The Syrian military has confirmed that it shot down Turkish warplane F-4 Phantom "flying in airspace over Syrian waters

…e action against Syria, he adds. Relations between NATO-member Turkey and Syria, once close allies, have deteriorated sharply since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011. Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled the violence across the border into Turkey. Inside Syria, the violence continued on Thursday with state media reporting that “armed terroris…

Pope Francis canonizes 813 Martyrs of Otranto killed by Ottoman soldiers

Pope Francis has proclaimed the first saints of his pontificate in a ceremony at the Vatican

han any of his predecessors. Among those canonized on Sunday were two Latin American nuns – Laura Montoya from Colombia and Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala from Mexico – who both died in the 20th Century. Colombia’s first saint, Mother Laura Montoya dedicated her life to helping indigenous people while the woman named by Pope Francis as Mother “Lupita” sheltered Catholi…

Syria: heavy fighting in Damascus suburb and Aleppo

Further heavy fighting took place today in Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo

…outlying districts of Hananu and al-Bab, they added. The Local Co-ordination Committees, an activist network, said more than 62 people had so far been killed across the country on Wednesday, including 30 in Damascus. It put the death toll on Tuesday at 160. The reports of violence came as Amnesty International said indiscriminate air attacks and artillery strikes by Syrian government forces are ki…

Taliban who shot down the Navy SEALs helicopter in Afghanistan were killed.

Taliban who shot down a Navy SEALs helicopter in Afghanistan were killed.

NATO helicopter crashed in Wardak, Eastern Afghanistan.   The Taliban insurgents who shot down a 38 elite troops Navy SEALs helicopter in Afghanistan were killed.   U.S. General, John Allen said Wednesday that NATO international troops found out where militants were hiding and launched an air strike on the place. Allen, who is chief commander of allied forces in Afghanistan ISAF (Internation…

Syria bans Turkish civil flights over its territory

Turkish civilian planes are no longer allowed to fly over Syria

…but the claim has not been independently verified. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has accused the government of President bashar al-Assad of dropping cluster bombs – which are banned by more than 100 countries – into populated areas. The group said there was a number of credible reports that the number of cluster bomb strikes had increased dramatically in recent days. Syria refuses to j…

Turkey: Syrian shells kill five people in Akcakale

Turkey has contacted the UN and NATO after Syrian shells killed five people in Akcakale

attack is believed to be only the second time that people have died as a result. Two Syrian nationals were killed on Turkish soil in April by stray bullets fired from Syria. In Syria itself, at least 34 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of bomb explosions in the centre of Syria’s second city, Aleppo. The attacks leveled buildings in the city’s main square. A milit…

Zero Dark Thirty: Senate Intelligence Committee demands information about CIA and filmmakers contacts

The US Senate Intelligence Committee has demanded more information about contacts between the CIA and the makers of Osama Bin Laden film Zero Dark Thirty

The US Senate Intelligence Committee has demanded more information about contacts between the CIA and the makers of Osama Bin Laden film Zero Dark Thirty. Kathryn Bigelow’s film is a dramatized account of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden and the 2011 mission which killed him. In a letter to Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, three senators said the film-makers could have been misled by informa…

Said al-Shihri, second-in-command of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, killed in Yemen

Said al-Shihri, described as the second-in-command of AQAP, has been killed in an operation in southern Yemen

…Some reports say Yemeni troops were involved, others that it was an air strike, possibly a US drone attack. Said al-Shihri, a Saudi national, was released by the US from detention in Guantanamo Bay in 2007. Yemen has previously announced it had killed Said al-Shihri and his death this time has not been confirmed. The Yemeni army has been fighting Islamist militants in the south of the country for…

At least 50 people have been killed in bomb attacks in southern Iraq and Baghdad

At least 50 people have been killed and more than 70 have been injured in bomb attacks in southern Iraq and in the capital Baghdad

areas of Baghdad. The attacks come amid a rise in sectarian tensions after the last US combat troops withdrew in December. The head of the provincial council in Nasiriya, Qusay al-Abadi, said at least 30 pilgrims were killed and more than 70 injured in the attack near Nasiriya. AFP quoted the official Dhi Qar provincial website as saying the pilgrims were walking to the holy city of Karbala. At l…

Seal Beach: names of the victims killed at Salon Meritage.

Eight people were the innocent victims killed, during the Seal Beach massacre, by the crazed gunman Scott Dekraai

…17;s hair when she was killed. Seal Beach, a quiet beachfront city of approximately 25,000 residents, identifies itself as the Gateway to Southern California’s Orange County and is located about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Sandra Bullock is among its famous residents….

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