SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Police killed four Kashmiris in the Jammu province of the Indian-occupied Kashmir region on Wednesday. Additional director general of police (Jammu), Mukesh Singh, told reporters that the police followed a truck moving in “an unusual manner” on a key highway in Jammu and followed it for a distance...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israel has placed more than 600 Palestinian minors under house arrest in East Jerusalem in 2022, according to a Palestinian agency on Tuesday. “Israel has widely used the policy of house arrest in Jerusalem this year,” the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said in a statement. “Israeli occupatio...
ISTANBUL (AA) – World football authority FIFA has chosen, for the first time, a female Palestinian referee to officiate at the upcoming Women’s World Cup matches. The official Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported that Heba Saadia would make the calls at the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand from Ju...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – More than one dozen civilians were killed late Monday by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, according to media reports. It attacked herders guarding cattle in a pasture near the of village Airamne in Borno state, said reports. Seventeen herders were killed in the fight and their cattle were taken away. Boko [&helli...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The death toll from tribal and ethnic clashes in western Sudan has risen to 12, according to an aid group. The violence started on December 21 when herders attacked a group of farmers in Amuri village, east of South Darfur. In a statement, the General Coordination for Refugees and Displaced in […]
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Three foreign aid groups have announced that they are suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the country’s Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs to stop female staff from working. Their announcement prompted warnings from a top UN official in Afghanistan and from NGOs that humanitarian aid would be hard hit....
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian properties in the occupied West Bank early Monday, according to a local official. Ghassan Douglas, an official in charge of monitoring Israeli settlement building in the northern West Bank, said settlers carried out attacks in the towns of Urif and Burin, south of Nablus. “Settle...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least five Pakistani army troops were killed in a bomb explosion in the southwestern Balochistan province on Sunday, the military said. The bombing – the second in a day – took place in the remote Kahan region of the mineral-rich province, during a security operation against suspected militants, the army [&hel...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – The Nigeria air force killed more than 200 Boko Haram fighters in an air raid with the Super Tucano light fighter jet in the Sambisa Forest in the northeastern state of Borno, a military expert told Anadolu Agency on Friday. There has been no official confirmation from the military but Zaga […]
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): A small group of Afghan women staged a defiant protest in Kabul on Thursday against a Taliban order banning them from universities, an activist said, adding that some were arrested. The Taliban’s minister for higher education on Tuesday ordered all public and private universities to bar women from attending. ...
