Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry on Saturday, knocking out more than half the Kingdom’s output, in a move expected to send oil prices soaring and increase tensions in the Middle East. The attacks will cut the kingdom’s output by 5.7 million barrels per day (bpd), […]
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Attacks against Syrians in Turkey raise fears of escalation
Ahmad Yassine was working in his barbershop in Istanbul’s working-class district of Kucukcekmece when he saw an angry crowd gather. Then they attacked his business and others owned by Syrians. “They threw stones, the window was completely shattered. There was three of us inside, we were scared,” the young man who fled from Aleppo six […]
Trump says he is worried about terrorist attacks if US troops leave Afghanistan
President Donald Trump said he wants to pull US troops out of Afghanistan but is concerned that without an American military presence, the country could be used as a base for terrorist attacks on the United States. In an interview on Fox News broadcast on Monday, Trump said the problem with pulling the 9,000 US […]
Twin attacks threaten new Ethiopian government’s reforms
The Baklaba and Cake cafe was heaving with customers when truck-loads of heavily armed men in fatigues rolled up across the road outside the local government headquarters in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. The men, some carrying two Kalashnikov assault rifles, stormed the building, sending customers enjoying a Saturday afternoon coffee in the cafe diving for cover, […]
Saudi Cabinet: Houthi attacks branded ‘war crimes’
JEDDAH: The recent wave of deadly terrorist attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi militants on civilian targets in the Kingdom were on Tuesday branded as “war crimes” by the Saudi Cabinet. A ministerial council meeting, chaired by King Salman, condemned ballistic missile and drone raids, which it said presented a major threat to regional and international security. […]
Yemen’s Houthis, in tit-for-tat, launch fresh attacks against Saudi Abha airport
Yemen’s Houthi group carried out new drone strikes on a Saudi airport on Friday after a series of air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition against the capital Sanaa, residents and both sides of Yemen’s war said. The Iran-aligned group said it has launched several drone strikes against Abha regional airport in southern Saudi Arabia, the […]
Rooms 50% off and ads in Russia: Sri Lanka woos tourists after attacks
Sri Lanka’s battered tourism industry is trying to woo visitors back to beaches deserted after deadly Easter bombings, slashing hotel rates and pushing promotions in key markets like Russia. Tourism, which accounts for 5% of Sri Lanka’s gross domestic product, tanked after Islamist bombers on April 21 attacked luxury hotels and churches, killing 250 people, […]
Lanka Easter bombings: Qureshi postpones visit to Sri Lanka, Maldives
The official visits of Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to Sri Lanka and the Maldives have been postponed in the light of the recent terror attacks in Sri Lanka. Diplomatic sources have claimed that the visits were deferred due to security concerns in Sri Lanka after a series of suicide attacks shook the island country […]
Russia and Syrian army step up attacks on rebel-held northwestern Syria
Russian and Syrian forces intensified air strikes and ground shelling in northwestern Syria overnight in one of the heaviest assaults on the last rebel bastion in recent months, opposition members, rescuers and residents said on Thursday. The targeted villages and towns in northern Hama and southern Idlib fall within a demilitarized zone agreed last September […]
Police say bomb find not linked to Christchurch attacks
New Zealand police on Wednesday ruled out any link between a bomb found in Christchurch and mosque shootings in March which killed 50 Muslim worshippers. Police and the military bomb squad swooped on a vacant lot just outside the city center Tuesday finding “a suspected explosive device” and rounds of ammunition. They said a 33-year-old […]