Washington: The US Central Intelligence Agency has concluded Saudi’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, The Washington Post reported Friday, citing people close to the matter. The US assessment directly contradicts the conclusions of a Saudi prosecutor one day prior, which exonerated the prince of involvement in the […]
Damascus: At least 105 people have been killed over the past seven days in Syria’s eastern province of Deir al-Zour as a result of U.S.-led airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) positions, a war monitor reported Thursday. A total of 80 children and women were among those killed by the intense U.S.-led airstrikes that have been […]
Srinagar: At least 20 Islamic State (IS) militants have been killed over the past 24 hours as a result of U.S.-led airstrikes on IS-held areas in eastern Syria, a war monitor group reported on Wednesday. The IS militants were killed as the U.S.-led coalition has been pounding the IS-held areas in the eastern countryside of […]
Afghan officials have said that Taliban Mujahideen have killed 12 members of the Afghan security forces, including nine soldiers who died in a battle in the Maidan Wardak province just outside the capital, Kabul, Associated Press reported. Hekmat Durani, the spokesman for the provincial police chief, told AP that the nine were killed in the […]
Moscow(Sputnik) The number of people who have lost their lives in wildfires in the US western state of California increased to 42 on Tuesday, Sheriff of the Butte County Kory Honea said at a briefing. On Monday, the death toll reportedly stood at 31. US President Donald Trump said earlier in the day that he […]
Srinagar: At least 149 people including civilians were killed in 24 hours of clashes between government loyalists and rebels in Yemen’s flashpoint city of Hodeida, medics and military sources said, reported AFP on Monday. A military source in Hodeida confirmed seven civilians had died in the key port city, without giving further details. Medics in […]
Srinagar: Pneumonia will kill nearly 11 million children under five by 2030; experts warned on Monday on a global day aimed at raising awareness of the biggest infectious killer of infants worldwide, international news gathering agency AFP reported on Monday. While in the developed world the severe lung infection mainly affects the elderly, in developing nations […]
Washington: At least nine people have died while more than 250,000 people have been forced to flee their homes to avoid three major blazes in California, officials said. Firefighters were powerless in stopping a wildfire destroying the northern town of Paradise, where 35 people are missing, a report in BBC stated. A raging wildfire swept […]
Mogadishu: At least 20 people have been killed and dozens more injured after three car bomb explosions near the popular Sahafi Hotel in Somalia’s Capital Mogadishu on Friday. Somali officials said that Islamist militant group al-Shabab claimed the responsibility for the blasts, a BBC report said. Al-Shabab said that it targeted the government officials staying […]
Srinagar: Hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan have been killed due to the so-called “war on terror” launched by the United States in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attack, according to a new study. The report, which was published on Saturday by the Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, put the death […]
