Aleppo police chief comments on school attack in city’s western area
Terrorists have shelled a neighborhood in western Aleppo despite the fact that there are only schools there and no military units, Aleppo police chief, Zuher Said Aldin, told the Rossiya 24 TV channel. “There are no military units there, only schools. Nevertheless, militants carried out a strike on this area, moreover, when classes were underway. Innocent children were killed, they just wanted to study,” he said. The SANA...
Kabul police tackle car theft… by deflating tyres
Police patrol the Afghan capital on a warm Sunday, but not to hunt extremists. Instead, they are deflating the tyres of parked cars — a theft prevention tactic that is raising eyebrows as the country struggles to contain the growing menace of petty crime. Kabul and its estimated five million inhabitants are at war, a prime target for Taliban-led insurgent attacks as well as assaults by a nascent Islamic State. The...
Police capture man who held 15 people hostage in Brussels supermarket
A man who held 15 people hostage in a Brussels supermarket after a botched robbery on Tuesday gave himself up to police, authorities told AFP. “The man turned himself in and there were no victims,” a police spokesman from the Brussels district of Forest in Belgium told AFP, adding that the situation lasted about an hour. The incident took place around 7:00 pm (1700 GMT) at a Carrefour supermarket in Forest. The area was...
German Police Say Arrested Syrian Bomb Plot Suspect
German police said Monday they have arrested a Syrian man suspected of plotting a jihadist bomb attack, after a massive manhunt lasting almost two days. “We’ve succeeded, really overjoyed: the terror suspect (Jaber) Albakr was arrested overnight in Leipzig,” police said on Twitter about the 22-year-old. Source: AFP
Turkey says suspends 12,801 police over alleged links with cleric Gulen
Turkish authorities have suspended 12,801 police officers from duty, police headquarters said today, over their suspected links with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen and his network, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup in July. The move came after the Interior Ministry launched an investigation into the police force, broadcaster CNN Turk reported, and a day after the Turkish government extended a state of emergency for...
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