TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – An officer from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was shot dead by unknown assailants in Tehran on Sunday, the IRGC’s public relations division said. Colonel Sayyad Khodayari was attacked by two motorcycle-borne assailants in his car outside his home in eastern Tehran, close to the Iranian parliame...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A former US police officer has pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter for his role in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, Minnesota’s attorney general announced Thursday. Thomas Lane was one of three former officers on the scene as fellow ex-officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck for more than nin...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden on Tuesday called the mass shooting at a supermarket in the state of New York “domestic terrorism.” “What happened here is simple straightforward; terrorism, domestic terrorism,” Biden said at a news conference in Buffalo where a gunman killed at least 10 people Saturday in a ...
DEIR-EZ-ZOR/AZAZ, Syria (AA) – A man who had been imprisoned in Syria and subjected to torture for three years says the Assad regime extorts money from families of prisoners. Mohammed Shilash, who is from the town of Sor in Deir Ez-Zor province, decided to leave the country to work in Lebanon in 2019 after his […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli police attacked the funeral procession for a Palestinian youth in occupied East Jerusalem Monday evening, according to witnesses. Clashes erupted between Israeli forces and Palestinian mourners near the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex during the funeral of a 23-year-old youth killed by Israeli gunfire last month, the...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – Authorities in Southern California say a man who opened fire at a church on Sunday, killing one and injuring five others, was a Chinese immigrant motivated by hate against Taiwanese people. Police say 68-year-old David Chou entered the Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in the city of Laguna Woods, 46 miles (74 kilometer...
JERUSALEM – The French Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem has accused Israeli police of assaulting the funeral procession of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. On Friday May 13, Israeli police surrounded mourners and used stun grenades as well as batons to assault pallbearers carrying Abu Akleh’s casket as it was being carried out of [&...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 43 people were killed over the weekend in separate attacks attributed to terrorists in Burkina Faso. The first attack occurred between Salmossi and Markoye in the province of Oudalan in the Sahel region, leaving six people dead, including five army auxiliaries and one civilian. Eight other volunteer militia...
WASHINGTON (AA) – One person was killed and four others were critically injured Sunday during a shooting at a church in Orange County, California, according to authorities. The shooting took place inside Geneva Presbyterian Church on the 24000 block of El Toro Road in Laguna Woods, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said on Twi...
BERLIN (AA) – A suspected Nazi terrorist attack was prevented in Germany’s western city of Essen, officials said on Thursday. North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul said at a televised news conference in Duesseldorf that police discovered material for a bomb for a terror attack at the home of a 16-year-old high school student in...
