EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Turkey and the US have agreed on the outlines of a plan to drive Islamic State out of a strip of land along the Turkish-Syrian border, according to reports, in a landmark deal that will draw Turkey further into Syria’s civil war and looks likely to increase the intensity of the US air war against Isis. ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG The head of the European Olympic Committees, Pat Hickey, has been arrested in Rio de Janeiro in connection with an alleged international ticket scalping scam. Hickey, who is also a member of the International Olympic Committee and president of the Olympic Council of Ireland, was arrested Wednesday by Civil Police at the hotel he was staying ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG The question is , why not long ago? Well,it has been so long for British authority to put an end and convict this notorious hate preacher who led a flag-burning demonstration outside the US embassy on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and voiced support for jihad has been convicted of inviting support for ISIS. Anjem Choudary, ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG What a strange love after all? Escaped Chibok girl Amina Ali Nkeki says she misses her Boko Haram fighter husband and is still thinking about him three months afterescaping the militants’ camp. Amina Ali, who was held hostage by the terrorist group for more than two years, says she was married off a year into her ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Iraq has hanged 36 people for taking part in the massacre of as many as 1,700 men in ISIS-controlled territory in 2014, a local governor said. The convicts were executed Sunday at Al-Hoot prison in Nasiriyah, said Yahya Al-Nasiri, governor of Dhiqar province. The killings have come to be known as the “Speicher Massacre” because it ...

WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG  FOR ISIS, BOKO HARAM, AL-SHABAB, and AL-QAEDA; all options are on the table in order to achieve their goal of terrifying people everywhere at any cost. I do not really understand why some people are unable to acknowledge that radicalization of young people especially homegrown terrorist is deeply rooted on religious ideology rather than political view ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG The Olympics have reached a transitional point, midway through the program, where one marquee event — swimming — ends and another — athletics — begins. Where the world goes from the excitement of watching Michael Phelps wreck medal records to the fervent anticipation of watching Usain Bolt beginning his campaign to write his own history. Phelps ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG A New York imam and his assistant were gunned down in broad daylight Saturday after prayers at a nearby mosque, police said. The two men were both shot in the head about 1:50 p.m. in Ozone Park, a working-class section of Queens with a burgeoning Bangladeshi population. “There is nothing in the preliminary investigation that would ...

REPORTED BY KALAHAN DENG Violence in South Sudan over the past three weeks has prompted a massive flight of refugees into neighbouring countries, according to the United Nations. More than 60,000 people, most of whom are women and children, have fled the country since fighting began at the end of June, the U.N.’s refugee agency UNHCR reported on Tuesday. “The ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG 1. Massive Snake Eating Massive Bat! Just the mere sight of these two creatures could give you a nightmare! Oh Australia, why do you house the largest of all scary creatures? Croc-Eating Pythons True enough, Australia has been a popular place for animals with their climate. But no one knew that this python will be eating ...