A suspected female suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and injured several others at a fish market on Friday night in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, police said on Saturday. Borno state police spokesperson, Nahum Kenneth Daso, said in a statement that a woman with an improvised explosive device strapped to her body, infiltrated a…
Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of armed struggle. It was the first reaction from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) after Ocalan this week called for the dissolution of the…
In the chaos of the Syrian civil war, one name stands out: Abu Mohammad al-Julani. As the commander of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), al-Julani has become an influential and controversial figure, playing a significant role in Syria’s rebel movement against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Born Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a in 1982 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, al-Julani began…