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 ...
Hundreds of Kashmiris in both India and Pakistan moved to higher ground Monday as rain-swollen rivers swamped parts of the disputed Himalayan region placed under an emergency flood alert just six months after some 600 ...
Clashes between police and gangs in Brazil’s eastern regions have killed at least 11 people and injured two officers, reports say. The violence took place in the state of Rio Grande do Norte and in ...
Ahead of next week’s third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria, the United Nations health agency’s top official in the country said today that more than 16 million Syrians and Syrian refugees are in need ...
At least seven people have lost their lives in a car bomb attack in the Afghan capital city of Kabul. “The initial reports from Kabul hospitals show seven killed and 22 wounded including women and ...