JENIN CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man and injured 16 more people in a massive military raid in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the deceased as Mohammad Musa Saabaneh, 29, according to the official Wafa news agency. The Israeli military [&hell...
MOSCOW (AA) – The Kremlin has condemned a terrorist attack in Afghanistan’s Kabul, which killed two Russian Embassy staff. “Of course, we are talking about a terrorist act, which is absolutely unacceptable in general. We strongly condemn such terrorist acts,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a press briefing in Moscow. The ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Iran on Monday. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers in the province of Hormozgan. There were no reports yet of fatalities or damage. Earlier the same day, two powerful earthquakes measuring 6.8 and 5.3 magnitude on the Richter scale hit southwestern China and […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has killed a Palestinian youth in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The ministry said Taher Mohammad Zakarneh, 19, was fatally shot by the Israeli forces in Qabatia town, south of Jenin city. Another Palestinian was injured by Israeli firing and is under trea...
MOSCOW/ISLAMABAD (AA) – Two employees of the Russian Embassy were killed in a blast in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. “On September 5, at 10:50 a.m. Kabul time, an unknown militant detonated an explosive device in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the consular section of the ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Amid reports of gunfights between the Myanmar army and a rebel group that have been ongoing for more than a week, some mortar shells again landed inside Bangladesh on Saturday. Two shells fell inside no man’s land in the northeastern district of Bandarban, according to official sources. However, they caused no [&...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 20 civilians were killed in an attack in central Somalia by al-Shabaab on a convoy carrying food supplies, officials said on Saturday. The victims in the attack, which took place near the district of Mahas in the Hiran region, included drivers and passengers in the convoy, with the members […]
ANKARA (AA) – A fire completely burnt down a mosque in northern France late Friday night, local media reported, with authorities suspecting an arson attack. The incident took place at the Rambouillet mosque in the Yvelines department of the Ile-de-France region, according to Le Parisien newspaper. An investigation has been launched to as...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and more than 11 wounded Thursday in the Somali capital in a mortar attack near the residence of the president, according to police. “We heard several explosions early morning on Thursday. When we investigated, we found out the explosions were mortar attacks,” police...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – A prominent Yemeni judge was killed on Thursday, one day after being kidnapped in the rebel-held capital Sanaa. Muhammad Hamran, a member of the Supreme Court, Yemen’s highest judicial authority, was abducted by unidentified gunmen outside his house in Sanaa on Wednesday. Local media later said the judge was killed. In [&he...
