Salih Muslim (ESMA CAKIR – ROMA / DHA) On February 25, the Czech authorities arrested Salih Muslim, a leader of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), in the Czech capital Prague upon an official request from Turkey, according to the Turkish Anadolu Agency. In late 2016, the Turkish Interior Ministry issued an arrest warrant for Salih Muslim. On February 14 2018 the ministry placed Muslim on its “most wanted terrorists” list and offered a bounty of nearly $1 million. According to Anadolu Agency, Czech officials said that Salih Muslim will be produced before a court which will decide whether or not he would be remanded in custody. The sources added that the Czech authorities had asked Turkey to submit the necessary documents for Muslim’s extradition. Meanwhile, Turkish security officials confirmed that Turkish Ministry of Justice had begun an administrative process to extradite Salih Muslim, according to Anadolu Agency. Salih Muslim occupied the position of the P

Illustrative image On February 24, a booby-trapped car targeted a camp of the Afghan Army in the Matki area of the Nad Ali district in the southern province of Helmand, according to the Afghan Tolo TV. Omar Zowak, a spokesman for Helmand governor, told Tolo that three Afghan soldiers had been killed and two others had been injured in the explosion. Three hours later, a second booby-trapped car exploded near an office of the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) in the capital of Helmand province, Lashkargah. According to Tolo, ten people including women and children were injured and an Afghan soldier was killed. A third attack, this time conducted with a booby-trapped motorcycle, hit a market in the Yahya Khil district in the eastern province of Paktika on February 25, according to the Chines Xinhua news agency. Shah Mohammad Aryan, a spokesman for the Afghan Police in Paktika, told Xinhua that four people, including an Afghan policeman, had been killed and thirteen