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A recent bombing in the Turkish city of Istanbul has left at least 10 dead and 15 injured. The government in Ankara was quick to blame the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh), claiming the bomber was “Syrian” and had crossed over from Syria into Turkey before carrying out the …

SCOTT CAMPBELL IRAN is to get access to billions of pounds in frozen assets after trade sanctions imposed by the EU and US were lifted on Saturday. The country emerged from years of economic isolation when world powers halted the restrictions in return for Tehran curbing its nuclear …

The mass sexual assaults and robberies during New Year celebrations in Cologne dramatically affected the way the United States views Angela Merkel and Germany, journalist Gero Schliess wrote for Deutsche Welle.  “In the last few years, many in the Unites States have looked across the Atlantic with admiration and respect,” DW’s …

Stephen Lendman US post-9/11 war on terror reflects state-sponsored deception – with the media complicit in conning the public to believe Washington opposes what it actively supports. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra and various splinter groups are US creations, used as imperial foot soldiers, flourishing because Washington and …

Petrol and diesel are set to become cheaper than bottled water after a collapse in the value of oil, experts have predicted. The RAC said that fuel prices may drop as low as 86p a litre — the lowest for at least seven years — after a dramatic …

A majority of Muslim millennials say terrorist groups such as Daesh and Al Qaida are a complete misrepresentation of Islam. During October and November of 2015, Zogby Research Services (ZRS) conducted face-to-face polls, surveying 5,374 Arab Muslims, both citizens and expatriates, between the ages of 15 and 34 …

TOM BATCHELOR SLAMIC State (ISIS) jihadis are plotting Paris-style lone wolf terror attacks on the US, the former boss of the CIA has warned. The evil death cult “poses a significant and lethal threat” to America and is believed to be expanding its reach in the States. Former …

REBECCA PERRING THE European Union faces being destroyed under the growing threat of terrorism, which has sparked the influx of migrants into Europe, the European Parliament’s President has warned. Martin Schulz, the German president of the European Parliament, fears the 28-member bloc will crumble under the to political …

Russia has unveiled the text of the agreement with Syria on the deployment of the Russian air group in the country. The Russian government on Thursday posted on its legal information portal the full text of the agreement with Damascus on the deployment of the Russian combat air group in Syria.The agreement, concluded on August …