KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle near a security checkpoint in Pakistan’s restive North Waziristan tribal district on Wednesday, killing at least three soldiers. Three civilians were critically injured in the bombing in Miranshah, the administrative headquarters of North Waziristan, the lates...
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 […]
ROME (AA): A European investigation has brought about the arrest of 15 individuals accused of smuggling migrants from Syria into the EU, Europol said Tuesday. According to the probe, the network used an unusually long and expensive route to smuggle migrants into Europe. Starting in Syria, the irregular migrants were taken via Sudan or the [&he...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Three African migrants have been arrested as suspects in the stabbing death of a local man in Tunisia’s coastal city of Sfax, a court spokesman said on Tuesday. Sfax, Tunisia’s second-largest city, is a departure point for many migrants hoping to reach Italy, and tensions have been rising there for months. Pol...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The UN Human Rights Council will hold an urgent session to address the burning of the Quran following an incident in Stockholm that sparked global outrage, a spokesman said Tuesday. A Quran was burnt outside the Swedish capital’s main mosque on Wednesday, triggering a diplomatic backlash across the Muslim world...
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...
GENEVA, ANKARA (AA): The Swedish government said Sunday that it wants to stop those people “who seek to come to Sweden and commit crime” in the wake of the burning of the Quran in Stockholm last week. “In May this year, the government decided to reintroduce border controls. We were clear about the reasons for […]
ISLAMABAD (AA): More than 1,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 2,700 others wounded since the 2021 Taliban takeover in Afghanistan in improvised explosive devise (IED) blasts. The claim was made in a UN report released Tuesday. According to the latest report by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), 3,774 civilian casualties ...
ANKARA (AA): Australia has imposed targeted financial sanctions and travel bans on three people involved in the “downing” of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014. In a statement, Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong said that her country is working closely with the Netherlands and European Union to coordinate sanctions on those who...
ISTANBUL (AA): A US army veteran has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for the murder of an Afghan refugee after he shouted Islamophobic slurs at the victim. After a three-day trial, Dustin Passarelli was convicted in the Midwestern US state of Indiana of the murder of Mustafa Ayoubi, 32, with additional time for […]
