Turkish authorities have arrested 147 individuals suspected of having ties with ISIS as part of a crackdown following a deadly attack in Moscow last week. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced the detentions, which were carried out as part of the “BOZDOGAN-17” operation spanning 30 provinces. Between June 1, 2023, and March 25, 2024, Turkey […]
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Turkiye detains 20 after Ankara bombing
Security forces in Turkiye have detained twenty people suspected of having links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which claimed responsibility for Sunday’s suicide bombing outside the interior ministry’s headquarters in the capital, Ankara. According to Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya on Monday, more than two dozen “operations” were carried out in Istanbul and Kirklareli, a […]
Tunisia detains cartoonist over drawings mocking prime minister
Tunisia’s public prosecutor yesterday detained the cartoonist Tawfiq Omrane over drawings mocking the prime minister, Omrane’s lawyer said, Reuters reported. Omrane is well known for publishing satirical cartoons featuring President Kais Saied, who seized almost all powers two years ago after he shut down Tunisia’s elected parliament in a move that the opposition described as […]
Iran detains Mahsa Amini’s uncle as anniversary of her death, protests loom
Iran’s security forces have detained a relative of a Kurdish-Iranian woman days before the anniversary of her death in the custody of the morality police that sparked months of nationwide protests, a source close to the family said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Fearing a revival of the unrest that rocked the Islamic Republic, Iran’s clerical […]
Algeria detains 28-person Morocco smuggling network
The Algerian Gendarmerie Nationale on Friday detained a network of 28 Moroccans and four Algerians who arranged secret immigration trips to Spain, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported. In a statement, the Gendarmerie Nationale in the governorate of Wahran disclosed that it: “Dismantled an international criminal network specialised in planning and organising secret voyages setting off from Morocco […]
Poland detains suspected Russian spies ‘preparing acts of sabotage’
Poland’s security services say they have detained members of a Russian espionage ring, alleging they were preparing acts of sabotage and had been monitoring railroad routes used for the transport of weapons into Ukraine. Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński said the Internal Security Agency arrested nine people suspected of spying for Russia. Three were detained Wednesday. […]
Turkey Detains Building Contractors As Quake Deaths Pass 33,000
Authorities said more than 92,600 other people were injured in the disaster. Source Views: 0
Germany Detains 25 Far-Right Extremists Who Allegedly Planned Coup
BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of police carried out a series of raids across much of Germany on Wednesday against suspected far-right extremists who allegedly sought to overthrow the state in an armed coup. Federal prosecutors said some 3,000 officers conducted searches at 130 sites in 11 of Germany’s 16 states against adherents of the so-called […]
Turkey detains Syrian suspect in deadly Istanbul bombing
Turkish police have released a video of the arrest of a woman they claim has confessed to Sunday’s deadly bomb attack in Istanbul. They identified the woman as Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national. Source Views: 0
Saudi Crackdown: Regime Detains Yemeni-American Citizen While on Pilgrimage
November 14, 2022 By Staff, Agencies As Saudi Arabia is hardening crackdown on dissent, including targeting its citizens who live abroad, a Yemeni-American citizen has been detained in Saudi Arabia while performing the ‘Umrah’ pilgrimage at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site. Mohamad Salem was taken into custody on November 1 and has […]
Turkey detains Taksim explosion suspect, blames PKK
November 14, 2022 Source: Agencies By Al Mayadeen English Turkey’s Interior Minister held the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) responsible for Sunday’s bombing in a busy Istanbul street. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu stated that the suspect who planted an explosive device in Istanbul on Sunday has been arrested. A strong explosion was heard Sunday in a busy area […]
Libya militia detains hundreds of Chadians in Ajdabiya
Hundreds of Chadians were detained on the streets of a Libyan town for a ninth day in retaliation for the Chad government’s arrest of four Libyan men on suspicion of poaching endangered animals, local Libyan media reports. According to the report, at least 400 people were arrested in the city of Ajdabiya by a militia […]
Iran detains and releases U.S. USV
TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Nay has detained and then released a U.S. unmanned surface vessel (USV) in the Persian Gulf, according to Nour News. The news website, which is linked to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said the IRGC Navy “controlled and towed” an American USV which had lost navigation communications […]
Iranian Intelligence Ministry detains Mossad spy squad
TEHRAN- The Iranian Intelligence Ministry on Saturday revealed that a group of Mossad agents had been detained. Source Views: 0
UAE detains Khashoggi lawyer, rights group says
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has detained a US citizen and civil rights attorney who served as the lawyer for the assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a human rights group has revealed. In a statement yesterday by the group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), it announced that the Virginia-based civil rights attorney Asim Ghafoor […]
Kazakhstan Detains Nearly 1,700 More After Violent Unrest
MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakh authorities said Wednesday they detained 1,678 more people in the past 24 hours over their alleged participation in the violent unrest that rocked the former Soviet nation last week, the worst since Kazakhstan gained independence three decades ago. The additional detentions, reported by authorities in Almaty, the country’s largest city that […]
Kazakhstan Detains Former Security Chief for Treason
Posted on January 8, 2022 by martyrashrakat Jan 9 2022 By Staff, Agencies The former head of Kazakhstan’s domestic intelligence agency has been detained on suspicion of high treason after he was fired amid violent protests. The National Security Committee, or KNB, said in a statement on Saturday its former chief Karim Masimov – a […]
Ethiopia detains thousands of Tigrayans repatriated from Saudi Arabia, rights group says
The Ethiopian government has been detaining and forcibly disappearing thousands of Tigrayans who were repatriated back to the country from Saudi Arabia, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). After tens of thousands of Tigrayans were deported from the Gulf Arab Kingdom between December 2020 and September 2021 under an agreement with Ethiopia, […]