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Since yesterday, Turkey has been in complete chaos. The military has attempted to take over the country. However loyalists were able to fight back. As result, the coup failed. However, operations are ongoing.

Turkish loyalists report arresting 1,563 soldiers and officers implicated in an overnight coup attempt; 29 colonels and five generals have been sacked. At least 90 people have been killed and 1,154 injured in military action in Istanbul and Ankara. Pro-government forces have seized control of the top military HQ building, but there are still some groups of rebels resisting, a Turkish official said on Saturday, as cited by Reuters. The official told the agency 1,563 military personnel were arrested following the coup attempt. This was later confirmed by Turkey’s Acting Chief of Staff Umit Dundar. General Hulusi Akar, who heads Turkey’s armed forces, has been rescued from rebel captivity. He was the most senior military official in their hands. The rebels reportedly have several helicopter gunships in their disposal, but loyalists have threatened to shoot them down as they downed at least one aircraft carrying out attacks on government buildings. A faction of the Turkish military attempt...

The Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for the truck attack in Nice, France, that left 84 people dead, according to ISIS-affiliated Amaq news agency. Trends Nice truck attack View image on Twitter  Follow أســ الدين ـــودBRO   @asdaldean99 مصدر أمني لوكالة أعماق: منفذ عملية الدهس في  # نيس  بـ  # فرنسا  هو أحد جنود الدولة الإسلامية ونفذ العملية استجابة ..... 10:14 AM - 16 Jul 2016     9 9 Retweets     3 3 likes Earlier, French authorities said they were unaware of any links between the attack suspect, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, and terror groups, but his actions were in line with extremists’ calls for lone-wolf attacks on Europe and the US. "He is a terrorist, probably linked to radical Islam one way or another," Prime Minister Manuel Valls told France 2 television on Friday. "Yes, it is a terrorist act and we shall see what links there are with terrorist organiza...

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The French special forces have defused an explosive-laden truck parked on a highway near Nice, media reported. A truck was parked 100 meters away from the apartment where a search raid of the suspected Nice attacker house was conducted. One unknown person was detained during the raid. On July 14 evening, a heavy truck hit a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in Nice , killing 84 people and wounding over 100 others. President Francois Hollande said the attack was of a “terrorist nature.” Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel [Tunisian orign] has been named as a potential perpetrator of the attack. He was shot dead by police.

At least 84 people have been killed, including a number of children, after a lorry ploughed through a large crowd celebrating Bastille Day on the seafront in Nice, France. More than a dozen were critically injured, according to the latest count from the French interior ministry. The driver of the truck, identified in French media as a 31-year-old local of Tunisian origin , is understood to have been shot dead by police at the scene. Many hundreds were told to run from the scene by police, and the president of the local region, Christian Estrosi, urged everyone in the city to remain indoors. Witnesses said the driver hit the crowd at high speed, swerving to hit as many as possible before climbing out of the car and shooting more dead. Mr Estrosi said the lorry was loaded with grenades and guns. Images emerged of the badly damaged truck, its windscreen riddled with bullets. Witnesses say there was an exchange of gunfire between the driver and police. The attack happened on the Promena...

Bullet imacts are seen on the heavy truck the day after it ran into a crowd at high speed killing scores celebrating the Bastille Day July 14 national holiday on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France,  Carol Davis, a witness to the attack in Nice, told RT that French security services had not been paying enough attention to the area, where a few officers were “just kind of walking around, mostly talking to each other” prior to the attack. “Although we are under state of emergency, there doesn’t seem to be any security,” Davis said, expressing her anger with the lack of police presence in the city during the mass celebrations on one of the main streets, which saw over 1,000 people coming to “experience fireworks, some joy” in a festive mood. “Just the other day, I left the beach because I thought everybody could come here and shoot us,” she said, adding that the locals are “furious with the lack of security here.” “We see very little security here; we see very little army; we ...

French police forces and forensic officers stand next to a truck July 15, 2016 that ran into a crowd celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday on the Promenade des Anglais killing at least 60 people in Nice, France, July 14. © Eric Gaillard / Reuters AddThis Sharing Buttons Scores of people have been killed and dozens more injured after a truck plowed through a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice, in what has been called “the worst attack” in the city’s history. A truck driver has been killed by police. 15 July 2016 06:58 GMT The truck used in Nice was rented several days prior to the attack, a police source told AFP. 06:37 GMT View image on Twitter  Follow James McVey   ✔ @TheVampsJames This is not human. This has no religion. This has no place in our world.  # PrayForNice 3:40 AM - 15 Jul 2016     7,109 7,109 Retweets     7,412 7,412 likes 06:21 GMT ...