Norway raised its terror alert to the highest level of “extraordinary” Saturday after a gunman in Oslo opened fire in a bar district popular with the LGBTQ community, killing two and leaving more than 20 wounded, AP reports. According to Norwegian security service PST chief Roger Berg, the series of shootings were an “extreme Islamist terror act,” adding that the gunman, a Norwegian citizen... 

7,000 ISIS fighters have taken advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to reorganise themselves in Iraq, according to a Kurdish general. Sirwan Barzani, a Peshmerga commander stationed in Arbil, said the lack of anti-ISIS operations in the region had provided jihadists with an opportunity to emerge from hiding, The Times reports. Speaking to the paper, the Kurdish general said that the group still posed... 

Turkey has now given Trump every reason to unleash the newly authorized sanctions, as Newsweek reports that American special forces troops have come under Turkish fire. According to the breaking exclusive: “A contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria.” It was “apparently by mistake,” the report adds. The... 

Swedish police have arrested a Syrian migrant in connection with a series of car fires which burned in the city of Örebro last week, according to local media. The suspect is reportedly a 19-year-old man from Syria who requires an interpreter in Kurmanji, a dialect of Kurdish spoken in northern Syria and other regions in the area. He is one of three suspects apprehended in connection with multiple... 

A 3,400-year-old palace dating from the time of the Indo-Aryan domination of Iraq has been uncovered near Mosul in that country, in what archeologists have called “one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the region.” According to a statement issued by the University of Tübingen, German and Kurdish archaeologists uncovered the Bronze Age palace on the eastern bank of the Tigris... 

The Iraqi Kurd, who came to Austria years ago, had his residency permit withdrawn in 2011 over his criminal record. However, he did not leave the country despite several offences that culminated with the murder of his reported fiancée. These details have prompted debates about the asylum system in Austria. Vienna’s Regional Court has convicted an immigrant from Iraq, Daban K. of murdering his partner,... 

(generic photo of a child used a human shield) A 2-year-old girl found with fatal injuries in Belgium after a police chase on Thursday died from a gunshot wound to the face, according to the BBC. The girl was in a van carrying some 30 Kurdish migrants which had been pursued for an hour in southern Belgium. The chase, which began on the E42 motorway near the town of Namur, involved a scuffle, police... 

In a breaking news story, a car has rammed into a crowd of Australians in Melbourne, killing at least 3, including 1 Jewish child. A teen who was on scene described driver as thin, dark hair, appeared Middle Eastern. The driver has been identified as Dimitrious Gargasoulas. Dimitrious Gargasoulas admitted on one of his Facebook posts that he is a Muslim of Kurdish origin from Greece. According to... 

An appalling new Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today is warning that the Obama regime backed Republic of Turkey is nearing an outbreak of total civil war after it has begun what can only be described as a mass genocide of its Kurdish population similar to the 1937-1938 Dersim Massacre that killed up to 80,000 of these peoples—and that was so “admired” by Nazi German... 

An ominous report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) states that President Putin has issued orders authorizing Federation military and intelligence forces to protect the Kurdish peoples of Turkey-Iraq-Syria against “all threats” and “at all costs” as these besieged peoples living in the Levant War Zone are now under “existential threat” of extermination... 

Some 80 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority have been massacred by Islamic State militants in a village in Iraq’s north, Kurdish officials said. “They arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon,” senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters. “We believe it’s because of their creed: convert or be killed.” In addition to the murders, local women... 

Scene of Aslan Usoyan assassination in Moscow, Russia, on January 16, 2013 One of Russia’s most notorious criminal masterminds, Mafia godfather Aslan Usoyan, also known as ‘Grandpa Hassan’, was shot dead by a sniper rifle in central Moscow on Wednesday, police said. A sniper armed with a suppressed Spetsnaz rifle fired at Usoyan from the roof of a nearby house as the 75-year-old was walking out... 

A placard is pictured during a protest by journalists and human right activists in front of the courthouse in Istanbul during the trial of two prominent Turkish journalists. Turkish journalists have been under great pressure since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan took office with hundreds of journalists being jailed for criticizing the government. According to Turkish daily Aksam, Turkey is the...