KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – A joint Sudanese-Libyan patrol found 20 bodies and rescued eight irregular migrants in the desert between the two countries, according to an official statement issued on Friday. According to the Sudanese-Libyan Joint Forces statement, which was cited by the Sudanese official news agency, the bodies were found on the bord...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Two soldiers were killed and another injured in Burkina Faso on Friday after their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, according to media reports. The attack occurred between the Dori and Sebba areas in the Sahel region. “The vehicle was carrying a group of defense and security forces belonging to the ...
Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was stabbed Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. The attacker was restrained. Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” is banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. The attack […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AA) – Main Iraqi Shia rival blocs urged their respective supporters on Thursday to demonstrate on Friday in different parts of the country. A committee of the Iran-aligned Coordination Framework, headed by former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, encouraged supporters to rally near the walls of Baghdad’s fortified Gree...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The death toll of Malian security forces in the Sunday terrorist attack has risen to 42, with the government announcing that it will launch thorough investigations into the well-coordinated attack in the southeastern Gao Region, which also injured 22 troops. Earlier, the government had announced that 17 soldiers were ki...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Three Indian soldiers and two freedom fighters were killed in a gunfight in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. Two more soldiers were injured in the early morning shootout in the Rajouri district, according to the Indian military. The army’s 16 Corps said on Twitter that two freedom fighters [&hel...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two people, including a soldier, were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region on Wednesday evening, an official said. The attack took place near a popular hotel close to the Hirshabele state presidency in the town of Jowhar. Roble Ahmed, spokesman for Hirshabele [&hel...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Two Rohingya refugee leaders were killed in a crammed Bangladeshi refugee camp, causing panic among the persecuted people, a senior police official said on Wednesday. Abu Taleb (40), a community head at a camp in the Ukhia sub-district, and Syed Hossain (35), another community leader of the same camp in the […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia’s New South Wales state on Tuesday took a major stride in criminalizing the display of Nazi symbols. The state parliament’s lower house passed a bill to ban the swastika, a symbol that is associated with the Holocaust and the crimes committed especially against Jewish people. The bill must pass the upp...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A suicide bomber blew himself up near an army convoy in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least four soldiers. The bombing, the latest in a fresh spate of attacks on security forces, took place in the restive North Waziristan region, which borders Afghanistan. The convoy was between the town of […]
