Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): At least 14 civilians have been killed in war-torn Sudan’s capital as rival forces are locked in a key battle over control of the Khartoum police headquarters, activists said Monday. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which since mid-April has been fighting Sudan’s regular army, announced late Sunda...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s army has dismissed three senior officers, including a three-star general, after an inquiry into last month’s violent protests which erupted following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, the military spokesman said on Monday. Addressing a press conference in Rawalpindi, Major Gen. Ahmad...
IDLIB, Syria (AA): A total of nine civilians were killed and 30 others injured in a Russian warplane attack on a market in Syria’s Idlib de-escalation zone, local sources said on Sunday. Confirming the casualties, the White Helmets civil defense group said the attack hit the vegetable market in the Jisr al-Shughur district center. Three [&hell...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): Wagner mercenaries were returning to base on Sunday as their mutinous leader agreed to go into exile after President Vladimir Putin was forced to accept an amnesty deal. The agreement appears to end the immediate threat that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private army could storm Moscow, but analysts said Wagner’s revolt...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday, according to local authorities. A 17-year-old man was killed by Israeli fire at Qalandia military checkpoint, the state news agency Wafa reported. In a statement, the Jerusalem Governorate Office identified the slain Palestinian as I...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): President Vladimir Putin warned Saturday that treason against his rule threatens Russia with civil war, as Moscow’s military launched an operation to tackle a revolt by the Wagner mercenary group. The rapidly escalating events mark the most serious challenge yet to the Kremlin chief’s long rule, and RussiaR...
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP): Bangladesh police have arrested the leader of an Islamist organisation in Dhaka, officers said Saturday, months after the launch of a crackdown against the group. Shamin Mahfuz, the founder of Jamaat al Ansar fil Hindal Sharqiya, is accused of helping to run militant training camps in the country’s restive Chitta...
ISLAMABAD (AA): Pakistan’s defense minister has slammed a joint statement issued by the US and Indian leaderships accusing Islamabad of “cross-border terrorism” and “terrorist proxies,” saying the language is misleading and violates diplomatic norms. Pakistan is still paying the price for being a frontline ally of...
An Nayrab, Syria (AFP): United Nations aid transited Friday from regime-controlled northwest Syria to rebel-held areas for the first time since a devastating February earthquake, an AFP correspondent and a humanitarian official said. The correspondent saw the 10-truck convoy reach rebel-held Al-Nayrab in Idlib province from the direction of re...
Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli forces demolished the house of a Palestinian in Nablus in the occupied West Bank early on Thursday, witnesses and the army said. An eyewitness told AFP that Israeli forces had left Nablus after destroying “an apartment on the second floor of a six-storey building”. The army said it ...
