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Police in riot gear contained roughly 200 protesters who had gathered in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri on August 10 to mark the anniversary of the police shooting of an unarmed black teen whose death ignited a national firestorm on race relations.

Three explosions, two of them suicide car bombs claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group, killed at least 33 people in Iraq's restive Diyala province on August 10, police and medics said.

ISIS is trying to lure in new recruits from Britain by promising them money, washing machines and other home appliances, if they bring their families along with them to settle down (??!!) their so-called ’Islamic Caliphate’.

Four attacks, some of them carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, have killed at least six police and army personnel in Turkey on Monday, according to Turkish media reports.

Three Russian members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been arrested in the southern province of Adana.

"Three foreign nationals believed to be ISIL members have been arrested by the Adana Provincial Gendarmerie Command in Adana's Yumurtal?k district," the Turkish General Staff said in a written statement on Aug 9.

Turkey has announced the freezing of the assets of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and four former senior Yemeni officials in line with a U.N. Security Council resolution. 

An anti-terrorist operation is being carried out in Macedonia by the police on Thursday, targeting members of the jihadi organization Islamic State.

The police are looking for persons taking part in recruitment of Macedonian citizens to Islamist paramilitary formations.

Israel Aug. 4 used a controversial decades-old form of detention without trial against an alleged Jewish extremist for the first time, following an outcry over the death of a Palestinian toddler in an arson attack.

Civilian casualties in Afghanistan touched a record high in the first half of 2015, according to UN figures released on August 5, revealing a fragile security situation six months after the NATO combat mission ended.

Three suspects have been detained in an operation against a terror organization launched at dawn on Aug. 4 in multiple Istanbul districts. 

Police launched an operation against the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) early Aug. 4, during which they raided 13 addresses in Istanbul's Sultangazi, Ba?c?lar and Gaziosmanpa?a districts.