Tuesday

January 6, 2015

Armed conflicts and attacks

A suicide bomber kills herself and a policeman in an attack on a police station in a popular tourist district in the Turkish city of Istanbul. (New York Times)

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Clashes with ISIL in Anbar province kill twenty-three Iraqi Army soldiers and allied Sunni fighters. (AP via The Hindu)

The Combined Joint Task Force combating ISIL conducts ten airstrikes in Syria, eight of them targeting the contested city of Kobani, with the airstrikes destroying fourteen ISIL fighting positions and a building. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

Officials in the American state of Massachusetts open a time capsule left behind by founding fathers Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)