As reported by Prokerala.com, Turkish government has warned its citizens against non-essential travel to Lebanon and called those already in the country to return home after two Turkish pilot were kidnapped in Beirut Friday.
Earlier in the day, a Turkish Airlines pilot and his assistant were kidnapped in an ambush on a bus in Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut, reported Xinhua citing a security source. Read article
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As reported by Usatoday.com, eighteen of 19 of U.S. embassies and consulates across the Middle East, Asia and Africa closed recently will reopen on Sunday, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced in a statement released Friday evening. The U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, will remain closed, Psaki added added, because of continuing concerns about a […]
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As reported by Tribune.com, the wake of terror threats, aviation authorities have called in the army for maintaining round-the-clock security at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA). Meanwhile, a hoax bomb threat for a Quetta-bound flight of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) PK-323 caused emergency at the capital’s airport. “It was a hoax call, but security […]
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The Department of State warns U.S. citizens to defer all non-essential travel to Pakistan. This Travel Warning replaces the Travel Warning dated April 9, 2013, to remind U.S. citizens of ongoing security concerns in Pakistan. On August 8, 2013, the Department of State ordered the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel from the U.S. Consulate […]
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Yahoo News UK reports that an Italian Jesuit priest who hoped to negotiate with jihadists in Syria has “apparently been kidnapped by an Islamist group” which is “a local version of Al-Qaeda”, the foreign ministry in Rome said Tuesday. “You will all understand the difficulties. We have not given up, we are still hopeful” of […]
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As reported by Chicagotribune.com, police arrested a man at Connecticut’s main airport on Monday after he allegedly told security screeners he was carrying a bomb, officials said, leading to delays on two departing flights. “At 3:12 p.m. ET, a male traveler who was passing through the security checkpoint at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, […]
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As reported by France24.com, two Lebanese suspects alleged to be members of Hezbollah and on trial in Nigeria on terrorism charges told a court Monday they were harshly interrogated by Israeli agents after their arrests. Mustapha Fawaz, Abdallah Thahini and Talal Ahmad Roda were arrested in May after the discovery of an arms cache in […]
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Libyaherald.com reports that a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Tripoli today was reported to have landed instead in Alexandria after an armed group forced air traffic control staff at Tripoli International Airport to deny it permission to land there. “We tried to negotiate with the armed group but did not succeed,” an airport official […]
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According to multiple sources, Sunday afternoon, the U.S. State Department extended embassy and consulate closures in 15 of the locations through Saturday, and added four other posts — all in Africa — to the list. This brings the total to 19. Britain said on Monday that it was extending the closure of its embassy in […]
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As reported by Gmanetwork.com, a car bomb exploded near a recreational area in Budaiya, west of the Bahraini capital Manama, on Saturday but no casualties were reported, the Interior Ministry said. Two gas cylinders were planted in a parked vehicle but only one exploded, a ministry source told Reuters. Read Article
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