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A suicide bomber has blown herself up in the western Turkish city of Bursa, killing one person and injuring 10 others, local media say.
The attack took place near the city’s 14th century Grand Mosque, a symbol of the city, reports said.
Unnamed officials said photographic evidence showed the attacker was a woman, Reuters news agency reported.
Turkey has been hit by a wave of suicide bombings blamed on both Islamist and Kurdish militants.
The son of a Jordanian parliamentarian has died while carrying out a bomb attack for the Daesh Takfiri militant group in Iraq.
Jordanian media said on Friday that Mazen al-Dhalaein has revealed to the Khaberni news website that his son, Mohammed, known by the nom de guerre Abu Baraa, had died in a bombing in Iraq, adding that he had learnt about his son’s death after seeing his photo on a Daesh-related website.
The Jordanian lawmaker explained that his 23-year-old son had been a medical student in Ukraine before joining Daesh this summer and urging him and his wife to join the extremist group, as well.
Our son “was trying to convince us to join IS (Daesh),” the lawmaker said, adding that the son called his parents “apostates.”
Dhalaein added that he had last heard from his son in August, when he sent them a message revealing his plan to take part in an imminent bomb attack.
On Wednesday, a statement posted on Twitter claimed that Daesh had carried out triple car bombings the previous day in the northern outskirts of Ramadi, a city west of Iraq’s capital, Baghdad.
Musa Abdullat, a leading Jordanian lawyer, also said that Dhalaein’s son was killed in an attack on the Iraqi army on Tuesday.
An estimated 4,000 militants from Jordan are said to be fighting for terrorist groups in Iraq and neighboring Syria, Abdullat said.
“Eighty percent of them have joined IS,” he said, adding that 420 Jordanian militants have been killed since 2011.
Report: presstv
The identity of the suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide bomber who hit Turkey’s southeastern town of Suruç has been confirmed by DNA tests, daily Habertürk has reported.
Şeyh Abdurrahman Alagöz, a 20-year-old university student registered in Adıyaman province, has been identified as the suicide bomber who carried out the deadly July 20 attack at a municipal culture center in Şanlıurfa’s Suruç district, which killed at least 32 activists planning to cross the border to help rebuild the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane.
The investigation to identify the corpse of a female suspect is reportedly still ongoing.
Speaking to Radikal, the young man’s mother Semüre Alagöz said her son had gone “abroad” six months ago and returned only 10 days ago, before she lost contact with him.
“They didn’t tell us where they went or what kind of job they had found. I don’t know whether he joined ISIL.
He was a good boy,” the woman said. She added that Alagöz’s younger brother, Yunus, was also missing.
Speaking on July 21, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu announced that one suspect had been identified in connection with the bomb attack.
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The attack has targeted the tourism unit of the Istanbul Security Directorate, which is located near several touristic landmarks, including the Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and the Basilica Cistern.
A policeman has been killed in a suicide attack by an English-speaking woman in central Istanbul, a week after another attack on Istanbul police by a far-left group.
A niqab-clad female suicide bomber targeted the building of the tourism police near the Sultanahmet Square, one of the most popular touristic places in Istanbul, on Jan. 6, NTV television reported. The assailant “exploded herself prematurely before going into the police building, as she was prevented by the guards at the entrance,” Cihan news agency reported.
Istanbul Governor Vasıf Şahin said that the suicide bomber presented herself as a tourist, telling the police in English that she had forgotten her wallet inside while attempting to enter the building moments before the attack. “One policeman is seriously wounded. The other policeman is better,” he added, while answering journalists’ questions at the crime scene.
While the body of the unidentified attacker was recovered and the injured people were hospitalized, police stopped the tram service as the area was cordoned off as a security measure. Kenan Kumaş, one of the injured policemen, died in the hospital.
Doğan News Agency footage shows the moments after the attack near the square:
Police suspect that the the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) might be behind the attack, according to NTV.
A far-left militant who served jail term for being a member of the DHKP/C had been detained in front of the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, which also houses a prime ministerial office, after throwing a bomb that failed to explode at police officers last week.
January/06/2015
