ISIL has released a video purportedly showing two captured Turkish soldiers being burned alive, after Ankara vowed to fight "terror" in Syria in response to 16 of its troops being killed in battle. The 19-minute video, showing two uniformed men being hauled from a cage before being bound and torched, was posted online and was supposedly shot in the ISIL-declared "Aleppo Province" in northern Syria. Speaking in Turkish, the killer […]
The Syrian army said on Thursday it had retaken full control of Aleppo, scoring its biggest victory against opposition forces since the civil war erupted in 2011. The announcement came after an evacuation deal that put an end to a ferocious months-long offensive waged on east Aleppo by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Earlier, the Red Cross said more than 4,000 fighters had left rebel-held areas of the city […]
US president-elect Donald Trump apparently intervened to help postpone a UN security council vote on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, reportedly applying pressure on behalf of Israel and discussing the Egypt-drafted resolution with the country's president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. A senior Israeli official told Reuters on Thursday that his government had asked Trump to apply pressure to avert a UN security council vote, after it learned the Obama […]
President Barack Obama plans to dismantle a controversial immigrant registry that rights groups have long said unfairly targeted men from Arab- and Muslim-majority countries, in what appears to be an effort to block President-elect Donald Trump from easily reviving it. The National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) has been dormant since 2011, but Obama plans to dismantle its regulatory structure in the final weeks of his administration, the New York […]
Thousands of Palestinians in the city of al-Bireh in the central occupied West Bank took part in the funeral of 19-year-old Ahmad Nashat Othman al-Kharroubi, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces earlier on Thursday during clashes in Kafr Aqab north of Jerusalem. Al-Kharroubi, who was from al-Bireh, was critically injured when Israeli forces shot him with live ammunition in the neck. He was pronounced dead upon arrival to […]
Nearly two months have gone by since Cape Town businessman Naushad Deshmukh was allegedly snatched from outside his Athlone business, yet there is still no trace of him. Police spokesperson Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana confirmed that the search for him continues. On Thursday it was business as usual at Khan's, his clothing business in Hadji Ebrahim Crescent from where he was kidnapped on Monday, October 31. An employee said they were […]
An investigation has been ordered into the leaking of messages from a high-level policing chat group, which has highlighted apparent fractures dividing the Western Cape’s top tier of police officers. At the centre of the probe is a leaked screengrab of WhatsApp messages between police cluster commanders, as well as Western Cape provincial Police Commissioner Khombinkosi Jula. The leaked screengrab shows that Mitchells Plain police cluster commander Major-General Greg Goss […]
Acting national police commissioner General Khomotso Phahlane says officers will monitor various malls across the country to protect shoppers during the festive season. “We made the decision that we are going to increase the police visibility and deploy officers in hotspot areas. We want to create a conducive environment for people to do their business," Phahlane said during a visit to the Mall of Africa in Midrand on Thursday. “Police […]
Marlon Johnson and his co-accused are expected to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Friday for the murder of Metrorail train driver Piet Botha on the Netreg station platform in Bishop Lavis. Johnson, 22, was formally charged for the murder of 46-year-old Botha. Botha was killed in July while waiting for a train on the station platform. He had been conducting a training session with a younger driver […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
