At least 18 Afghan soldiers have lost their lives following an attack by Taliban militants against an army outpost in the northeastern province of Badakhshan. « Eighteen Afghan soldiers were martyred and eight of them were ...
At least six people have lost their lives in a car bomb attack in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, police sources say. The Egyptian police sources said on Sunday that at least 44 other individuals suffered ...
A panicked student was killed and 150 more were hurt in a stampede on Sunday when an electrical blast sparked fears of a new Islamist attack on a Kenyan university campus. Some students jumped from ...
Briefing members of the international press this afternoon at United Nations Headquarters, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the “epic humanitarian catastrophe” facing the 18,000 Palestinian refugees and Syrians being held hostage by extremist militants in Yarmouk ...
The Palestinian health ministry has warned of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip if Israel does not lift its crippling siege on the region. The ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said in an interview on ...
Eight Iranian border guards have been killed in a clash with Takfiri insurgents who had infiltrated from neighboring Pakistan, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday. « Armed terrorists entered Iran from Pakistan and clashed ...
It was not immediately clear which group was responsible for the kidnapping, though Kurdish officials accused Al-Qaeda’s affiliate Al-Nusra Front, which is active in Idlib province. « A group of 300 people on five coaches and ...
Israeli jail guards have raided part of a prison in southern Israel, beating dozens of Palestinian inmates and placing several in solitary confinement. The guards broke into the sector two of Ramon prison on Friday, ...
At least ten people, including nine civilians and a policeman, have been injured when a bomb explosion struck a police checkpoint in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz. One civilian is reportedly in critical condition. The ...
The death toll from an attack by al-Shabab militants on a university in the town of Garissa in eastern Kenya has risen to 147, Kenyan government officials say. The officials said that security forces killed ...