Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran will avenge the killing of a Revolutionary Guards colonel who was shot dead in Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Monday. Assailants on motorcycles on Sunday hit Colonel Sayyad Khodai with five bullets as he sat in his car outside his Tehran home. Iran blamed “elements linked to the global […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – At least six people were killed in an attack carried out by Daesh/ISIS in northern Iraq, officials said late Monday. The terrorist group targeted residents of Taza Khurmatu district south of the city of Kirkuk, where the majority of Turkmen live, the government-affiliated Security Media Network said in a statement. An operation ...
PARIS (AA) – The security guard in front of Qatar’s embassy in Paris was killed in the early morning hours on Monday, according to local media. The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into intentional homicide after a 40-year-old male suspect forced his way into the official headquarters at around 6.30 in the morning, Frenc...
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 [&...
