KABUL (AA): At least six people were killed and 11 others injured after multiple blasts hit a boys school in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday, an official of Taliban-led interim government said. The explosions targeted Abdul Raheem Shaheed High School, which is located in the city’s district 18, said Khalid Zadran, a Kabul police s...
KABUL (AA) – At least five people were killed in a bomb attack in western Afghanistan on Friday, said a local hospital. According to a statement by Herat Hospital, 25 people were injured in the attack that hit the Jibril area of Herat city. Some of them were in critical condition. Eyewitnesses claimed that 10 […]
A military convoy carrying logistics for the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS came under attack in southern Iraq on Sunday, a local source said. A roadside bomb exploded as the convoy was moving on a highway near the city of Nasiriyah, the source said on condition of anonymity. A military vehicle sustained minor damage in the […]
Yama Nabi, son of Haji Daoud Nabi, one of the victims of the Christchurch terror attacks targeting two mosques in New Zealand, longs for his father. On March 15, 2019, Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant killed 51 worshippers and injured 40 others at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre. He was sentenced to […]
Yemeni refugees in the central Ma’rib province on Tuesday appealed for humanitarian aid and protection from Houthi rebel attacks. Refugees in al-Sumayya camp, south of Marib, said they were forced to leave their homes to flee Houthi rocket and drone attacks. They say more than 1,800 families in the camp lack basic necessities amid an […...
An international body fighting money laundering says the United Arab Emirates isn’t doing enough to stop criminals and militants from hiding wealth there. Paris-based Financial Action Task Force on Friday placed UAE on its “gray list” of 23 countries, including Jordan, Syria and Yemen. The Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arab...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least three policemen were killed and over two dozen injured in an explosion in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, an official said. The blast that targeted a police van in a busy street occurred in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Balochistan province, Bushra Rindh, a provincial government spokeswoman, said....
A fire in a shopping centre in the Syrian capital Damascus killed at least 11 people early Tuesday, the interior ministry said, in one of the deadliest blazes of recent years. Many of those killed were security guards or other staff on duty overnight in the six-storey building, civil defence director Ahmad Abbas said. The […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least three policemen were killed and over two dozen injured in an explosion in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, an official said. The blast that targeted a police van in a busy street occurred in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Balochistan province, Bushra Rindh, a provincial government spokeswoman, said....
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation or OIC and the Gulf Cooperation Council or GCC on Tuesday welcomed the U.N. Security Council’s classification of Yemen’s Houthi rebel group as terrorists. The Security Council also extended an arms embargo to all the Houthi members. The OIC said it hopes the U.N.’s decision will contribute to ending the ...
