Category: Crime and Judiciary

 Islamic State militants clashed with police in northwest Turkey on Monday, leaving three police officers and six militants dead, Turkey’s interior minister said. At least eight other police officers and a night guard were wounded. The shooting occurred in Elmali district in Yalova province, south of Istanbul, as police stormed a house where the militants...

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, on Friday, 26 December 2025, paid a courtesy visit to His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, CFR, the Sultan of Sokoto, at his palace in Sokoto State. The visit highlights the renewed commitment of the Nigerian Army to strengthening civil–military relations and fostering collaboration with...

The Nigeria Police Force Special Tactical Squad (STS) has recorded notable operational successes following a series of intelligence-led operations across several states in Nigeria, leading to the arrest of twenty-two (22) suspects linked to serious criminal activities. The suspects were apprehended for offences including armed robbery, kidnapping, banditry, cattle rustling, car snatching, economic sabotage, impersonation...

Federal immigration agents shot at a moving vehicle on Wednesday morning during an enforcement and removal action, striking one person and injuring another, officials said. A spokesperson for the Anne Arundel County Police Department said neither person had life-threatening injuries, and both were taken to the hospital. Anne Arundel police responded to a report of...

Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri granted a full pardon to farmer Sunday Jackson, convicted in 2021 of killing herder Ardo Buba Bawuro during a 2015 clash over crop-damaging cattle. Jackson claimed self-defense in the struggle, but courts upheld a death sentence until the Supreme Court affirmed it in March 2025; the governor acted on...

Search and recovery teams on Wednesday intensified their operations at the site of a plane crash that killed Libya’s military chief and other high-level officers, working to secure the area and locate the aircraft’s flight recorders after a night of heavy rain and fog, Turkey’s state-run news agency said. The private jet carrying Gen. Muhammad Ali Ahmad...

A California woman has been charged with murder after the remains of her missing 9-year-old daughter were found in Utah, authorities said Tuesday. Ashlee Buzzard, 40, was arrested Tuesday after bullet cartridges found near her daughter’s body were linked to a used cartridge case found in her home, said Santa Barbara County’s Sheriff-Coroner Bill Brown....

A prominent American Islamist journalist who has been critical of Syria’s new government and its nascent partnership with the United States has been detained by Syrian security forces, multiple reports stated. Bilal Abdul Kareem, a former stand-up comedian in the U.S. turned war journalist who has lived in Syria since 2012 and worked with many foreign media...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has officially labelled kidnappers and violent armed groups as terrorists. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, announced the development during the Federal Government’s end-of-year press briefing in Abuja on Monday. “Henceforth, any armed group or individual that kidnaps our children, attacks our farmers, and terrorizes our communities...

A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the corruption case of a former aide to New York governors after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked and couldn’t reach a verdict on charges she sold her influence to China and profited from a medical equipment scheme during the pandemic. The federal jury in Brooklyn was unable...