MOSCOW — Eleven people have been detained after gunmen stormed a concert hall in Moscow and opened fire on the crowd, the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service told President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, according to Russian state news agency Tass. Russia’s Investigative Committee said four people among those detained were directly involved in the … Read more
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish police on Tuesday detained seven more people suspected of selling information to the Israeli spy agency Mossad, authorities said, the latest in a wave of such arrests in Turkey. The suspects were taken into custody during simultaneous raids in Istanbul, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on the social media platform X, … Read more
JERUSALEM — Even after four months of the most grueling and gruesome work of his life, the anesthesiologist wanted to stay at his post at Nasser Hospital last month when the Israeli tanks closed in. But doctors, he fretted, face one of three fates in wartime Gaza: displacement, detention or death. He’d seen Israeli forces … Read more
Istanbul — Authorities in Turkey detained Sunday the director of the company managing a gold mine where a massive landslide in the country’s east left nine workers missing, local media said. A huge landslide engulfed Tuesday the Anagold Madencilik company’s Copler mine in the town of Ilic in Turkey’s mountainous Erzincan province, trapping the workers … Read more
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish authorities have detained 33 people suspected of spying for Israel, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported on Tuesday. Authorities were still searching for 13 others believed to have links to Israel’s Mossad security service, the Anadolu Agency reported. The suspects were detained in raids in Istanbul and seven other provinces for allegedly … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave RIGA, Latvia — Russian authorities have arrested an editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, an American news outlet based in Prague and financed by the U.S. government, accusing her of collecting information about the Russia military that could damage the nation’s security. The editor, Alsu Kurmasheva, holds … Read more