RIYADH: Saudi police have arrested eight people in the northwest suspected of recruiting young people to join the Islamic State jihadist group in Iraq and Syria, the interior ministry said yesterday. Police in Tamir, 150km north of Riyadh, arrested eight people “who deluded young people into joining foreign extremist groups,” the ministry said in a statement.
WASHINGTON: Seven western governments in addition to the United States have pledged to provide weapons and ammunition to Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel said yesterday. “In addition to support from the US, and the central government of Iraq in Baghdad, seven additional nations — Albania, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom — have committed to helping provide Kurdish forces urgently needed arms and equipment,” Hagel said in a statement.
LOS ANGELES: An American man suspected of fighting with Islamic State militants operating in Iraq and Syria has been killed in the region, a US security official said yesterday. The official, who asked not to be identified, said that the FBI was investigating the death of 33-year-old Douglas
3 killed in UN copter crash in S Sudan
JUBA: Three crew members of a UN peacekeeping helicopter in South Sudan were killed yesterday when their aircraft crashed on a routine cargo flight, the United Nations said.
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