Yemen: Isis claims Aden suicide car bombing that kills 7

A suicide car bomb killed seven people outside Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadis residence in the southern port city of Aden on 28 January, local officials and eyewitnesses said. Islamic State (Isis) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted online. The militant group said the attack was carried out by a suicide car bomber it identified as Abu Hanifa al-Hollandi, suggesting the attacker was Dutch. The group said the attack had killed about 10 members of palace security and wounded about 20. Witnesses and local officials said seven people were killed in the bombing. Jan 29, 2016

Migrants return to Iraq after difficult process in Germany

Some Iraqi migrants, fed up with the long asylum application process, far-right violence and paltry conditions at temporary shelters in Germany, returned back to Iraq on 27 January. Women, children and men arrived in the northern Kurdish city of Erbil on one-way travel documents issued by the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin. Jan 28, 2016