Wednesday

February 17, 2016

Armed conflicts and attacks

Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)

A suicide bomber kills at least 13 recruits at a Yemeni Army base run by forces loyal to ousted President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in the southern port city of Aden. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claim responsibility for the attack. (Reuters)

February 2016 Ankara bombing

Military vehicles explode outside a Turkish Armed Forces barracks in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least 28 people and injuring 61 others. Authorities believe a car bomb caused the blast. A senior Turkish security source says initial signs indicate that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) are responsible. (BBC) (Time) (Haaretz) (CNN)

Iraqi Civil War, Military intervention against ISIL

Iraqi authorities are searching for 10 grams of iridium-192, a radioactive material stolen from a Weatherford International oilfield services facility near Basra in November 2015. Authorities are concerned about its potential use by Islamic State, or the like, to develop a dirty bomb weapon. (Reuters)

An Iraqi Air Force helicopter is shot down by ISIL near Amiriyah Fallujah, Al Anbar Governorate, killing at least one crew member and injuring another. (AFP via Al Arabiya)

Syrian Civil War

Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) reports three people are found alive in the rubble of a hospital in northwest Syria hit by Russian airstrikes Monday. (UPI)

Arts and culture

Experts confirm the discovery of a lost Spanish settlement in Florida from an expedition led by Tristan de Luna. (Associated Press via MSN)