At least 64 people have been killed in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in an attack carried out by suspected rebels. Nyonyi Bwanakawa, the mayor of Beni in North Kivu, told Al Jazeera the attack on Saturday night happened in the town’s Rwangoma district. DRC troops and local officials[…]
At least 25 people have been killed and 25 more injured, some critically, after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest on a bus in Syria’s Idlib province, adjoining Turkey, according to a monitoring network. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the bus was carrying opposition fighters when[…]
At least 90 people have been killed in overnight air strikes by the Syrian government and Russian forces across Syria, according to monitors and opposition activists. Most people were killed around the Aleppo province, where more than 300,000 civilians are trapped in rebel held territories. The air raids hit the only[…]
Many things have changed for Sarah Attar since London 2012. For starters, the 23-year-old pioneering Saudi Arabian runner with an infectious smile graduated from Pepperdine University, in California, and began training full-time as a long-distance runner. Attar is now in Rio de Janeiro for her second Olympic experience, leading a team[…]
A French human rights group has said it will oppose a ban on burkinis in courts after the seaside city of Cannes barred the full-body, head-covering swimsuits worn by some Muslim women. “Ten women have asked us to sue the town of Cannes,” Marwan Muhammad, the executive director of the[…]
Police are continuing their search for the suspects behind a series of bomb blasts across Thailand that killed four people and and injured more than 30, including tourists. The country was on edge after 11 small bombs exploded across five southern provinces on Thursday night and Friday morning. The bombs,[…]
Palestinian rights groups have slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that he and Israel care more about the Palestinian people than their own leaders do. Netanyahu made the comment on Thursday in his first response to disputed allegations that Hamas, the rulers of Gaza, illegally obtained massive amounts of[…]
Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had prevented three Saudi women and seven children from traveling through Lebanon to join the conflict in neighboring Syria, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported. The three sisters and their children were detained by Lebanese authorities in Beirut and flown back to Saudi[…]
Thailand has tightened security after bomb attacks across the country killed four people and wounded many more, with authorities struggling to identify a motive and find the perpetrators. Twin bombs exploded in the upmarket resort of Hua Hin late on Thursday, killing one woman and wounding more than 20 others.[…]
Syrian rebels and government forces have clashed in southern Aleppo, including during the period of a promised Russian lull to allow humanitarian convoys in, according to media reports. Lorries carrying food were unable to enter Aleppo on Thursday because of intense bombardment, the AFP news agency reported from the rebel-held east[…]
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