Beirut: At least 17 people were killed Sunday in a car bomb near a bustling market and mosque in a rebel-held city in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said. Four children were among those killed in the explosion in Azaz, at the heart of a Turkish zone of influence in Aleppo province, said the Syrian […]
Moscow: At least eight policemen were killed and seven others were injured after a Taliban-hijacked military armored car laden with explosives rammed into a police building in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni on June 1, the local law enforcement agency said on Sunday. The blast took place some 4 miles away from the provincial […]
Beijing: China’s State Council through a white paper published on Sunday accused United States of undermining market confidence and economic stability in the two countries by imposing additional tariffs on Chinese goods. “The US administration has imposed additional tariffs on Chinese goods exported to the US, impeding two-way trade and investment cooperation and undermining market […]
Moscow: At least 21 members of the Taliban radical movement have been killed in an airstrike conducted by Afghan security forces in the country’s southeastern province of Ghazni, local media reported on Saturday, citing military sources. The sources said that the airstrike was carried out in the province’s densely-populated Qarabagh district, the Khaama Press News […]
Kabul: The Taliban are unlikely to call a ceasefire any time soon, the group’s leader indicated Saturday, though he said the “doors of dialogue” with the US remain open. The rare message from Haibatullah Akhundzada comes after a sixth round of US-led talks ended last month in Qatar with little sign of progress and amid […]
BAGHDAD: At least four people were killed and 20 others injured on Thursday when six explosions rocked the Iraqi northern city of Kirkuk, a police source said. The blasts took place when six roadside bombs went off in three main streets in Kirkuk, some 250 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the media office […]
Khatoum: Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) has ordered Qatar-based Al Jazeera Television offices in Khartoum closed without giving any reasons, the office director said. The office director said officers from various security branches arrived and informed them of the TMC decision to close the office and seize its belongings.
Srinagar: At least 14 civilians have been killed in an air raid by the Syrian government and Russian forces on the rebel-held Idlib province. Seven of Wednesday’s victims were killed in the village of Sarja, four others – a man and his three children – in the village of Bara and three more in Hbeit town, […]
Israel’s parliament voted early Thursday to hold new elections only months after April polls in an unprecedented move provoked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to remain in power despite failing to form a coalition. Parliament voted 74-45 in favour of dissolving itself and setting elections for September 17. It came as the deadline for […]
Coatzacoalcos: A semi-truck and a bus carrying passengers back from a pilgrimage to a Catholic shrine crashed and burst into flames Wednesday in eastern Mexico, killing at least 21 people, officials said. Thirty others were injured. Most of the victims were pilgrims from the southern state of Chiapas who were on their way back from […]
