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BERLIN, Germany (AFP)- An Iraqi failed asylum seeker wanted over the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Germany has been arrested in Iraq, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Friday. Ali Bashar, 20, who is believed to have strangled Susanna Maria Feldman, 14, after sexually assaulting her, was “arrested by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq at the request of German federal police”, said Seehofer. cfm-hmn/fz/nla © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News)– A 64-year-old Iraqi explosives specialist described as having close links to extremist groups in the Middle East was taken into custody over the weekend, the police said on Monday. The Philippine National Police said Taha Mohamed Al-Jabouri was nabbed by operatives of the intelligence group on Sunday in Barangay Malabania, Angeles, Pampanga at 3 a.m. The PNP said this was after they received information through the barangay information network that a “suspicious-looking” person […]
(Reuters) – Iraqi forces have withdrawn from the militant-held city of Tikrit after their new offensive met heavy resistance, in a blow to the government effort to push back Sunni insurgents controlling large parts of the country. The failure highlights the difficulties of Baghdad’s struggle to recapture territory from the insurgents who seized Mosul, Tikrit and other cities last month in a rapid offensive which threatens to fragment Iraq on ethnic and sectarian lines. The […]
