KILIS, Türkiye (AA) – A suspected ISIS member has been nabbed in Türkiye’s southeastern province of Kilis bordering Syria in connection with the killing of two Turkish soldiers in 2015. According to the provincial gendarmerie command, the suspect, identifed as I I (identity withheld), was arrested in an operation in the Oncupinar neighbo...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A young Palestinian was shot dead Wednesday by Israel in the occupied West Bank, according to local media. Rafek Riyad Ghannam, 20, was killed by Israeli forces during a military raid in the town of Jaba, south of Jenin, the official Palestine TV reported. Eyewitnesses said Israeli forces raided a number […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – A bomb blast, targeting a vehicle carrying security personnel, killed a senior Somali security official near the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday. The bomb blast took place in the town of Afgooye, in the southwestern province of Lower Shabelle. Afgooye is a strategic agricultural town located 30 kilometers (18 mil...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Two UN peacekeepers were killed and five others injured on Tuesday in a bomb explosion in northern Mali, the UN mission in the West African county said. The incident occurred in the morning when an armored vehicle of a UN Mali mission logistics convoy struck a mine on the Tessalit-Gao axis, […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden has described as “horrifying and heartbreaking” the deaths that occurred on Tuesday of 50 migrants whose bodies were found inside a tractor-trailer in the state of Texas. “Our prayers are with those who lost their lives, their loved ones, as well as those still fighting for their lives. [&he...
BERLIN (AA) – Over 500 right-wing extremists are wanted in Germany, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Monday. In an answer to the Left Party’s parliamentary question, the ministry said as many as 568 far-right extremists, including 145 people who committed violent crimes, are sought by Germany as of March 31. At least 79 of [&helli...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan’s army chief Gen. Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan said Monday the military will not tolerate the killing of its soldiers by Ethiopian forces. Addressing his forces in the disputed al-Fashaga border area, Al-Burhan said the Sudanese army will fully protect the Sudanese territories and people. “We don’t have a lot to sa...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – At least 30 people, including five Nigerians, were killed and several houses were torched in an ethnic attack in western Cameroon, multiple sources said on Monday. The attack took place between Friday and Sunday in the village of Mesaka in the Akwaya commune bordering Nigeria, according to a local church and [&hel...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Three Somali soldiers were killed and several others injured on Monday after their convoy ran over a landmine planted along the roadside in the country’s central region of Hiiraan, police said. The incident took place in Mataban, a town located 405 kilometers (251 miles) from the capital Mogadishu. Two journalis...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Two police officers and two assailants were killed when motorbike-riding gunmen opened fire at a police station in northern Benin on Sunday. The police station in the Dassari district near the border with Burkina Faso was attacked at 2 a.m. local time. Besides those killed, one officer was wounded, according to [&he...
