TRENTON, Canada (AA): A man who attacked a mosque in the Toronto area with an axe and planned mass casualties was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday. Armed with bear spray and an axe, Mohammad Moiz Omar entered the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre in Mississauga, where about 30 worshippers were performing early morning prayers […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s defense minister has said “every citizen” needs arms due to a “deteriorating” security situation in several parts of the country. Khawaja Asif made these remarks while endorsing a demand from several lawmakers during a parliamentary session in Islamabad on Monday for the issuance...
HUDUR, Somalia (AA) – More than 20 people, including soldiers, were killed and dozens others wounded on Monday when a suicide bombing rocked the Somali capital Mogadishu, a senior official said. A senior security officer in Mogadishu, who spoke to Anadolu on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said a [&hel...
KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, Pakistan (AA) – In recent months, terrorist attacks have increased in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, which border Afghanistan On Thursday, two suspected suicide bombers killed six people and injured eight others in a bomb attack near a government building in northwestern Pakistan. The attack occu...
HUDUR, Somalia (AA) – The Somali army killed at least 30 Al-Shabaab terrorists, including two so-called commanders, in a military operation Wednesday. The Somali National Army (SNA) conducted the operation near El-Qura region, which is located across the central states of Galmudug and Hirshabele. A statement from the Somali Ministry of Defense...
HUDUR, Somalia (AA): The Somali military in a joint operation with US forces killed nearly 100 al-Shabaab fighters, including seven top-ranking leaders, Wednesday in central Somalia, according to the country’s Information Ministry. The Somali National Army (SNA) with the support of the US Army conducted air and ground operations near the villa...
ISLAMABAD (AA): Expressing anger over recent attacks against Pakistani security forces, Islamabad has accused Afghanistan of not fulfilling its obligations as a neighbor. Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Kabul is not abiding by the commitments made in the 2020 Doha agreement. “Five to six million Afghans are living from the pa...
DAMASCUS, Syria – A U.S. drone strike is believed to have killed Osama al-Muhajer, the leader of the ISIS group in eastern Syria. The attack came after Russian warplanes attacked U.S. MQ-9 drones over Syria. No civilians were killed in the attack, but coalition forces are investigating reports of one civilian injured. The U.S. has [&hell...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least eight people including six children were killed on Sunday when a modified auto-rickshaw struck a landmine in Somalia. The incident took place between the village of Jicibow and the town of Bulaburde in Hirshabelle state. Ibrahim Abdi Ali, a security official in the town of Jowhar, the administrative cap...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has executed two men for an attack on a popular shrine in the southern province of Fars that killed 13 people. The two men, identified as Mohammad Ramez Rashidi and Naeim Hashem Qetali, were publicly executed in Shiraz, the capital of Fars province. According to the Mizan news agency, which […]
