Prominent Taliban, son, brother killed in Kabul suicide attack. A prominent Taliban cleric, Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani was killed along with his son and brother in a suicide attack in Kabul on Thursday. According to Taliban sources, a man who had previously lost his leg detonated the explosives hidden in his artificial leg after successfully entering […]
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Lawyers attack AC office
SARGODHA: Sadr police Kot Momin on Wednesday registered a case against 90 lawyers for ransacking the office of Assistant Commissioner. According to police, 90 lawyers ransacked the office of Assistant Commissioner Aleeza Rehan in a fit of rage over the demolition of illegal structure by the team of tehsil administration in Kot Momin. AC Aleeza […]
Gun attack on church in southwest Nigeria leaves 21 dead
LAGOS: Gunmen killed at least 21 people, including children, in an attack on a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria on Sunday, local officials said, in violence that drew widespread international condemnation. The bloodshed at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo town during a service was a rare assault in Nigeria’s usually safer southwest and shocked […]
10 killed in deadliest recent Syria rebel attack
Beirut: Syrian rebels killed 10 soldiers in northern Syria Friday, in the deadliest such attack since a truce deal reached over two years ago, a war monitor and state media said. Nine soldiers were also wounded in the attack, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported, quoting a military source. “Around 9:30 this morning terrorists targeted […]
New attack near Niger’s Mali border kills 18 civilians
A fresh attack in western Niger near the border with Mali has left 18 civilians dead, a local elected official said Thursday. The attack Wednesday was in the village of Deye Koukou in the Banibangou area, where 14 civilians were killed Sunday — also by men aboard motorbikes, the official told AFP. He did not […]
Niger says 14 killed in attack near Mali border
Armed men on motorbikes killed 14 civilians in an attack on a village in western Niger, near the restive border with Mali, the government said on Monday. The attack on Sunday “targeted civilians, killing 14, including nine working in fields” at Banibangou, the interior ministry said. The area is prone to jihadist raids. One person […]
Armed men who attacked Baghdad hospital arrested: police
Baghdad police said Saturday they had arrested a group of related men who allegedly attacked a hospital, as a security source told AFP the armed assault was carried out in retaliation after four Covid patients died when their oxygen was cut. Security forces “arrested an armed group which attacked al-Kindi hospital”, one of the main […]
Biden offers Colombia ‘support’ after attack on Duque chopper
US President Joe Biden has promised his Colombian counterpart Ivan Duque “support to confront… terrorist actions” after Duque’s helicopter was attacked near the Venezuelan border last week, the government in Bogota said Monday. The two leaders had their first telephone call since Biden assumed office in January, it added. Duque’s helicopter was approaching Cucuta airport […]
Three MSF aid workers killed in Ethiopia’s Tigray
One Spanish and two Ethiopian employees of the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have been “brutally murdered” in Ethiopia’s war-torn northern Tigray region, the organisation said Friday. The trio “were travelling yesterday afternoon when we lost contact with them. This morning, their vehicle was found empty and a few metres away, their lifeless bodies,” […]
Woman killed in attack on pro-Kurdish party office in Turkey
An assailant killed a woman in an attack on a provincial office of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party on Thursday, the party said. The HDP identified the victim as Deniz Poyraz, a party official in the western province of Izmir where the morning attack occurred. The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is the Turkish parliament’s third-largest party, […]