MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): At least three people were killed and two others were wounded in an attack on the Somali capital Tuesday with improvised rockets, said an official. “The attack was by rockets. The attackers used an unconventional method to launch the rockets and they were fired from the outskirts of Mogadishu. One of the […]
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): Israel carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to alleged rockets fired from the Palestinian coastal enclave, the army said. “In response to the rockets launched earlier tonight (Wednesday), the IDF (Israel Defense Force) is currently striking in the Gaza Strip,” the army said,...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Massive monsoon rains lashed Pakistan on Wednesday, inundating streets, uprooting trees, and killing at least six persons, officials and local media reported. Eight deaths were reported from northeastern Punjab province, mainly provincial capital Lahore, which was hit by record-breaking rains on Tuesday. A minor and two...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israel pushed on for a second day Tuesday with its biggest military operation in years in the occupied West Bank, which left 10 Palestinians dead and forced thousands to flee their homes. The raid that began early on Monday targeted Jenin and employed armoured vehicles, army bulldozers and drone strikes. O...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA): Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi arrived in Damascus on Monday, for the second such visit to Syria since February. Safadi will meet with head of the Syrian regime Bashar al-Assad during his visit, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The top Jordanian diplomat will also hold talks with his Syrian [&hel...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fierce fighting between the forces of rival generals shook the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday as disease and malnutrition threatened the rising number of displaced. Khartoum residents said they were shaken awake by warplanes and “violent fighting” between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israel on Monday began a large-scale military raid including drone strikes and hundreds of troops in the northern occupied West Bank, killing eight Palestinians in what the army labelled an “extensive counterterrorism effort.” The operation under the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benj...
In 1989, Salaam and 4 others were wrongfully arrested, beaten, coerced into a false confession of raping a woman in Central Park NEW YORK – Yusef Salaam, one of the wrongfully convicted Central Park Five teenagers, has won the Democratic primary for a New York City Council seat, Salaam, a 49-year-old poet, activist and inspirational [&he...
STOCKHOLM (AA): An Iraqi national on Wednesday burned a copy of the Muslim holy book Quran outside a mosque in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. The incident took place outside the Stockholm Mosque in Medborgarplatsen, where Salwan Momika first threw the Quran on the ground before burning it with insulting words about Islam. The provocation [&...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan summoned the US deputy chief of mission on Monday to register a formal protest against last week’s US-India joint statement, which urged Islamabad “to act against cross-border terrorism.” “Pakistan’s concerns and disappointment at the unwarranted, one-sided and misleading references to i...
