KANO, Nigeria (AA) — At least 36 Nigerian military personnel were killed in attacks by bandits earlier this week and a helicopter crash, authorities said Thursday. The casualties include three officers and 22 soldiers killed in an ambush Monday in the northern state of Niger, said Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, the director of defense media […]...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Members of the Boko Haram group killed 13 people in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, local media reported Sunday. The organization carried out a predawn attack on Saturday on a military base in the village of Wulari in Borno state, killing three soldiers in a fierce gun battle. Late on […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA): At least 10 suspects have been arrested by security forces over Sunday’s attack on a popular shrine in southern Iran’s Shiraz city, which killed one and injured nine others. The semi-official Tasnim News Agency in a report on Monday said the interrogation of one of the attackers who was apprehended by security […]
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement on Thursday buried one of its members who was killed a day earlier when a truck carrying ammunition belonging to the Iran-backed group overturned near Beirut, sparking clashes. Hundreds turned out for the funeral of Ahmad Ali Kassas in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah strong...
TORONTO (AA) – Washington, DC Councilman Trayon White called Tuesday for an emergency to be declared and the National Guard to step in to curb the rapidly rising crime and violence in the nation’s capital. In a press statement on the deaths of three people in a gunfight on Aug. 6, White said that anarchy […]
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...
