Paramilitary organizations

EU keeps PKK on terrorism list

The European Union on Feb. 5 renewed its terrorist list for a further six months.

The sanctions list features 14 persons and 21 entities or groups, including the PKK and Dalokay Sanli, a senior figure of the terrorist group.

Terrorist organizations DHKP/C, IBDA-C, and TAK - a PKK offshoot - are also on the list.

ISIL claims responsibility for Baghdad's suicide attack

ISIL claimed responsibility early on Jan. 22 for Baghdad's suicide attack, via the group's Amaq news agency on its Telegram channel.

Two men blew themselves up in a crowded Baghdad market on Jan. 21, killing at least 32 people in Iraq's first big suicide bombing for three years, authorities said, describing it as a possible sign of the reactivation of the ISIL.

Kosovo Massacre Anniversary Brings Memories of a Missing Mother

His mother Sahide, who was 61 at the time, tried to get to her husband's cousins' house, but she was shot as she walked up the road. Wounded, she remained in the street for almost an hour.

"Some people who were hiding in the basement of a house saw her sitting on the roadside after being shot. It isn't known where she was shot, they only saw she was bleeding," Hasan Metushi said.

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