AMMAN, (PIC)– A Jordanian news report revealed that the Turkish security apparatuses were able to thwart an attempt to assassinate premier Recep Erdogan, affirming that investigations uncovered the Mossad’s involvement in the operation.

Two senior members of a government-backed Iraqi militia have been killed in separate bomb attacks north of the capital, Baghdad. Raad Tami al-Mujamai and Khamis Sabaa al-Aqabi were killed when bombs attached to their cars detonated on Tuesday in the town of Buhriz, 60km northeast of Baghdad, police said.

Three people have been killed and nine others wounded in a bomb attack on a bus carrying soldiers in Istanbul, Turkish television has reported.The blast occurred close to a military housing complex on Tuesday morning.

The man accused of planning the failed bomb plot in New York’s Times Square has pled guilty to all charges against him.

Two car bombs have exploded outside the headquarters of the Trade Bank of Iraq in Baghdad, killing at least 26 people and injuring 53 others, security officials have said.

Turkey has renewed its attacks against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), responding to the militant attacks which left a dozen Turkish soldiers dead.

SANAA: Eleven people including seven military personnel were killed in a suspected Al-Qaeda attack on Yemeni intelligence headquarters in the southern port city of Aden on Saturday, officials said.

NEW YORK – The Justice Department has told a federal appeals court there was more than enough untainted evidence to justify a trial for five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in the 2007 Nisoor Square massacre in Baghdad.

PRISTINA (Reuters) Around 5,000 people protested in Kosovo on Friday against a government decision to ban pupils from wearing Muslim headscarves (hijab) in public schools.

Seven Iraqi soldiers have been killed by unidentified assailants in an ambush near the Syrian border, according to a provincial military spokesman.