A fighter plane crashed Sunday near the Syrian city of Aleppo, where Islamist rebels are fighting with the Syrian army and armed forces backed by Iran. It reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The government of Afghanistan has made peace with Gulbuddin Hekmatjar, one of the most feared warlords in the history of the country.
A 25-year-old man was sentenced in Britain to life imprisonment because he had plans to murder American soldiers who worked at a base in England. According to British media he was observing potential victims and potential during his work as a courier.
Syrian warplanes have carried out airstrikes Sunday in the northern city of Aleppo to halt an offensive by Islamist rebels. Both the Syrian state media and opposition reported the bombing. How many people thereby killed is unknown.
Sadiq Khan is the new mayor of London.
In the conquest of a strategically important village southwest of the Syrian Aleppo, 73 people were killed by rebels, of whom 43 on the side of the insurgents. The other deaths occurred in the government army. This was reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Friday.
Tens of millions of Britons on Thursday can vote in local elections. Although the counting of votes in some cases it may take several days, it seems the election to produce a cold shower for opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Sadiq Khan makes Thursday likely to be elected the first Muslim mayor of a western capital. The Labour politician according to polls towering favorite.
Sadiq Khan, the British Labour Party's favorite Thursday to win the mayoral election for London. According to polls Khan is approximately 20 percentage points ahead of its main rival, the Conservative Zac Goldsmith. If he wins, he follows the current mayor Boris Johnson and he is the first Muslim mayor in a Western capital.
Twice a week a boat brings drinking water to monkeys on the Thai island of Rum. Throughout Thailand by the weather phenomenon El Niño in the rainy season from November to January to little rain on the island in the Gulf of Thailand not even a drop, says the director of the Khao Sam Roy Yot National Park.
Pakistani police on Friday put a stop to a wedding of a ten year old girl with a fourteen year old boy. The intention behind the wedding was to put an end to a major conflict of the two families involved.
The populous Punjab province in Pakistan on Tuesday all schools closed for five days and at 22.5 million pupils and students said they should stay home. The reason for the closure is the cold, leaving many children contract the flu or pneumonia, said Education Minister Rana Khan Tuesday. Temperatures in the capital Lahore have fallen to just above zero, while many schools do not have enough fuel to heat the premises.
In Malaysia have arrested seven militants suspected of preparing terrorist attacks. These are men between 26 and 50 years who were in possession of ammunition and propaganda of terrorist organization Islamic State. That the chief Ayob Khan of the anti-terrorist unit of the police announced Monday.
A married couple in England on Wednesday sentenced to life in prison for plotting an attack in London. The 25-year-old Mohammed Rehman and his 24-year-old woman Sana Ahmed Khan had extremely hazardous chemicals purchased via eBay and Rehman did in his backyard in suburban Reading experiments with explosives.
A couple is Tuesday in England found guilty of plotting an attack in London. The 25-year-old Mohammed Rehman and his 24-year-old woman Sana Ahmed Khan have extremely hazardous chemicals purchased via eBay and Rehman did in his backyard in suburban Reading experiments with explosives.
Colleagues and relatives of the suspected gunman in San Bernardino, the 28-year-old Rizwan Syed Farook, have shocked and reacted in disbelief at his lethal action from Wednesday. The American, together with his wife by the authorities seen as the instigator of the massacre of fourteen people dead.
More than four in five British Muslims have no sympathy for jihadis who travel to Syria and Iraq to fight for Islamic State. In the age group 18 to 34 years that number is slightly lower, at around 75 percent.
A British man has been sentenced to 21 months in prison because he had brought cocaine to a court.
