Khar, Pakistan (AFP): Pakistan police on Monday combed through the bloody wreckage of a suicide blast that killed at least 44 people at a religious party’s political gathering on Sunday. Around 400 members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazlur Rehman group (JUI-F) — a key government coalition partner led by a religious cleric — ...
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP): At least 44 people were killed and more than 100 others wounded Sunday by a suicide bombing at a political gathering of a leading Islamic party in northwest Pakistan, officials said. The blast targeted the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) party — a government coalition partner led by an influential firebrand cleri...
Sidon, Lebanon (AFP): At least six people were killed Sunday in clashes in south Lebanon’s restive Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp, said Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement and a source at the camp. The fighting between Fatah and Islamists in the camp, which erupted overnight, killed a Fatah military leader a...
ISLAMABAD (AA): China has rolled over a loan of $2.4 billion to Pakistan for two years, the South Asian nation’s finance minister has said. “Chinese EXIM Bank has rolled over for 2 years principal amounts of following loans totalling US$ 2.4 billion which are due in next 2 fiscal years,” Ishaq Dar tweeted. He added […]
TORONTO (AA): Israeli soldiers shot and killed a child late Wednesday during a raid on the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank. The child, who suffered a serious head wound from a bullet fired by the occupation forces, was taken to the Qalqilya State Hospital and subsequently passed away, according to a statement […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA): A man who attacked a mosque in the Toronto area with an axe and planned mass casualties was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday. Armed with bear spray and an axe, Mohammad Moiz Omar entered the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre in Mississauga, where about 30 worshippers were performing early morning prayers […]
NABLUS, Palestine (AA): A Palestinian young man was killed by the Israeli army during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that “a young man died of his serious injury, as the occupied (Israeli forces) shot him during the storming of the city of Nablus, […]
Brussels, Belgium (AFP): A Brussels court on Tuesday convicted French citizen Salah Abdeslam and Belgian-Moroccan Mohamed Abrini for 2016 bombings in the Belgian capital that killed 32 people, after the country’s largest-ever criminal trial. The high-profile pair — already sentenced to life in jail by France for a 2015 massacre in ...
Algiers, Algeria (AFP): Wildfires raging across Algeria during a blistering heatwave have killed more than 30 people and forced mass evacuations, the government said on Monday. As temperatures hit 48 degrees Celsius (118 Fahrenheit) in parts of the North African country, 97 blazes were recorded across 16 provinces, fanned by strong winds, said...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): At least 13 Palestinians were injured during a raid in the occupied West Bank by the Israeli army on Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Four citizens were injured by Israeli bullets, while nine others received shrapnel during the Israeli forces’ aggression in the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarem, the minist...
