ISTANBUL (AA) – China has strongly condemned a militant attack that targeted Chinese engineers in Pakistan on Sunday. “China has requested Pakistan to severely punish the culprits and to take practical and effective measures to ensure the safety of Chinese nationals,” said Wang Wenbin, spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry. At least two suspe...
-Gunmen entered Shah Cheragh shrine in Shiraz on Sunday and began firing at security personnel and worshippers TEHRAN, Iran – A holy shrine in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz has been targeted in a deadly attack for the second time in a year. Two gunmen entered the Shah Cheragh shrine at 7 p.m. local time […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Members of the Boko Haram group killed 13 people in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, local media reported Sunday. The organization carried out a predawn attack on Saturday on a military base in the village of Wulari in Borno state, killing three soldiers in a fierce gun battle. Late on […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): In a stark contradiction to Pakistan’s official view, the country’s human rights minister does not believe Afghanistan’s interim government is responsible for recent terrorist strikes. His remarks are contradictory to a series of latest statements by the government and the powerful army chief accusing ...
NEW YORK – In a scathing ruling, a federal judge criticized the FBI for using a manipulative informant, Shahed Hussain, to deceive a group of Muslims. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon ruled that the FBI had lured these men into participating in a fictitious plot whose goal was to destroy military aircraft and synagogues in […]
NEW DELHI, India – A security guard in India shot and killed his senior colleague and three passengers on a train. The deceased passengers were Muslims. The constable, Chetan Singh, then jumped onto the tracks with his gun and began running. Eyewitnesses reported that the officer shouted slogans praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): The US Treasury Department has designated Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the leader of the ISIS group based in Somalia, as a “global terrorist”. According to the US, Yusuf has played a key role in the delivery of foreign fighters, supplies, and ammunition on behalf of the group, which serves as a hub for […...
HUDUR, Somalia (AA): Somali authorities arrested security officials, including a senior commander, after a suicide bomber on Monday targeted a military training facility in the country’s capital Mogadishu, an official said on Wednesday. The bomber blew himself up inside the Jaalle Siyad military training facility and killed over 30 people, inc...
HUDUR, Somalia (AA) – The medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced Monday that it has decided to withdraw all its services from Somalia’s Las Anod General Hospital in the Sool region due to increased volatility and repeated security incidents that have impacted the safe delivery of medical care. It said r...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A policeman was killed in an explosion in a mosque in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, police said, the third blast in two weeks. The explosion occurred in the Khyber tribal district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders neighboring Afghanistan, Shoukat Abbas, head of the police’s counter terrorism ce...
