AP, London
A 21-year-old British man dubbed “Jihadi Jack” has been captured by Kurdish fighters in Syria where he was accused of joining ISIS, media reports said today.
Jack Letts, who emerged as the first from the UK to join ISIS in Syria, told the London-based television network Al-Araby that he was living in a prison controlled by the Kurds.
CIA names former bin Laden hunt chief to run Iran spying
AFP, Washington
The CIA has named the hardline chief of its hunt for Osama bin Laden and head of its lethal drone program to lead Iran operations, the New York Times reported Friday.. The choice of Michael D’Andrea to run the Central Intelligence Agency’s spying on Iran is the newest sign of the Trump administration’s turn to tougher stance against the Islamic Republic, the Times said, quoting intelligence community sources.
Russia to sell
air-defence
system to Turkey
AFP, Saint Petersburg
Russia is closing in on a deal with Turkey to supply its latest S-400 air-defence system to Ankara, Moscow said Saturday, in the latest sign of restored ties.
“Moscow and Ankara have almost finished discussing the technical side of the contract for S-400,” Russian state giant Rostec said in a statement.
Ten migrants killed in Bulgaria
Reuters, Sofia
Ten migrants were killed and seven were injured after a minivan transporting them overturned on a highway near the city of Pazardzhik in southern Bulgaria, the interior ministry said. The ministry said the 16-year-old Bulgarian driver of the vehicle, who did not hold a driving license, was also killed in the accident early on Sunday. The migrants did not have any documents on them, but some of the wounded, who were being treated in hospital, told police officers they were of Afghani and Pakistani origin.
