JERUSALEM (AA): A 19-year-old Palestinian was killed in a raid by Jewish settlers on the village of Burqa, Palestinian state news agency WAFA reported Friday. The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that Qusai Jamal Maatan was shot dead by settlers who stormed the village, which is located east of Ramallah. The settlers also brought animals ...
GENEVA (AA): The number of violent incidents involving Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territory stood at 591 in the first six months of 2023, the UN has reported. “That’s an average of 99 incidents every month and a 39% increase compared with the monthly average of the whole of 2022,” Jens Laerke, spokesperson for [&h...
BEIRUT (AA): Lebanon marked the third grim anniversary of the deadly Beirut port explosion on Friday, with the justice minister pledging that the judiciary will hold those responsible accountable. On August 4, 2020, the explosion claimed 215 people’s lives and injured nearly 6,500 others, and wreaked havoc on thousands of homes, with material ...
Tulkarm, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Hundreds of mourners gathered on Friday for the funeral of a Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank earlier in the day. In a statement, the Palestinian health ministry said 18-year-old Mahmoud Abu Saan was “killed this morning by live bullets from the occupation (Is...
Stockholm, Sweden (AFP): Sweden’s government has said that it intends to “intensify” border controls due to worsening security situation in the wake of several instances of the desecration of the Holy Quran. Tensions have flared between Sweden and Muslim countries following several offensive incidents of the public desecratio...
TORONTO (AA): Members of the radical violent group Boko Haram have killed 11 farmers in an armed attack in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria, the local media reported. Boko Haram raided Kawuri village in the Konduga Local Government Area and shot dead people who were working in a field, and wounded several others. Thousands of […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): The death toll from last week’s suicide bombing of a political rally in northwestern Pakistan has jumped to 56 as two more people, who were critically injured, lost the battle for their lives at a hospital, officials said on Tuesday. On Sunday, a suspected suicide bomber, who is believed to have acted […]
BEIRUT (AA): The death toll from clashes between two groups in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp rose to nine on Monday. The largest of 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, the Ain al-Helweh camp located near Sidon city, has been witnessing clashes since Saturday, with six deaths recorded on Sunday, according to the state-run Nati...
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...
