BEIRUT (AA): A kidnapped Saudi citizen was rescued by the Lebanese intelligence in an operation against criminals, several of whom have been arrested, the country’s army chief announced, without revealing the identities of the abductors. The Saudi national working as an administrative employee in the Saudi Arabian Airlines Beirut office ...
ROME (AA): Italian police have detained a minor accused of being part of a transnational group of youths supporting the ISIS group. The police said they found evidence that he was ready to organize an arson attack in the area of Bergamo in northern Italy, where he lives. They said the boy who has Italian […]
Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan (AFP): In a secluded compound in south Afghanistan, Bibi Hazrato cries in dismay as a group of men hack down her poppy crop, enforcing a Taliban government order to wean the nation off the narcotic plant. “If you were working for God, you would not have crushed this little field,” Bibi cries. […]
TORONTO (AA): A man suspected of attacking the Turkish House in New York City earlier this week has been captured as a result of a US police operation. The suspect, Recep Akbiyik, was apprehended by the New York Police Department in the early morning hours on Friday, sources told Anadolu. Authorities identified the assailant Wednesday [&hellip...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): A Lebanese judge has banned the country’s central bank chief Riad Salameh from travelling, days after Beirut received an Interpol red notice following a French arrest warrant, a judicial official said Wednesday. Salameh, Lebanon’s long-serving central bank chief, has been the target of a series of judicial in...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least six people, including four para-military troops, were killed when suspected militants attacked a gas field in northwestern Pakistan, police said on Tuesday. A group of heavily armed militants stormed the gas field in Hangu district of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, which borders Afghanistan, late on M...
NEW YORK (AA): Turkish House in New York hosting Türkiye’s diplomatic missions was attacked in the early hours of Monday. The assailant smashed the windows of the building at 3.14 a.m. local time, Turkish Consul General in New York Reyhan Ozgur told the media. Ozgur said that no one was hurt but 12 windows and […]
ANKARA (AA): Normalcy is gradually returning to India’s violence-hit northeastern state of Manipur amid a shortage of medicine and daily-use items, according to local politicians. At least 70 people have been killed and 231 others have been injured in the ethnic violence since May 3. Thousands have been displaced with 1,700 houses burned...
Najaf, Iraq (AFP): Funerals were held Tuesday in Iraq for 78 people killed by the Islamic State group in 2014 and uncovered in a mass grave. DNA testing was used to identify the remains of hundreds of people slain by IS after their discovery in 2017 at the grave site on the outskirts of Mosul, […]
NEW DELHI (AA): India’s northeastern state of Manipur is reeling from ethnic violence which has affected thousands of people. Sixty people have died in the unrest, while 231 people have been injured and around 1,700 houses burnt. In addition, 20,000 people have been taken to safe places, while work on shifting another 10,000 people to [&...
