A car bombing targeting an influential Syrian rebel group has killed at least 18 people in Quneitra province of the country’s south, as opposition groups elsewhere in Syria accused the government of breaching a truce. Late on Wednesday, the car bomb targeted the Syria Revolutionaries Front’s local finance office in[…]
A woman who brandished the severed head of a four-year-old girl in her care outside a Moscow metro station has said she beheaded the child to avenge Muslims killed in the Kremlin’s campaign of air strikes in Syria. In video posted online on Thursday and circulated by several prominent bloggers,[…]
Two female militants were killed by police when they fired shots and threw a grenade at a Turkish police bus in Istanbul on Thursday, local media and the Istanbul governor said. Two police officers were lightly wounded in the attack, Governor Vasip Sahin told reporters in televised comments. An investigation[…]
North Korea fired six short-range projectiles into the sea in a show of defiance just hours after the United Nations adopted the toughest sanctions to date on Pyongyang over its fourth nuclear test and rocket launch. Limited displays of military firepower have become a routine response by North Korea to[…]
A hunk of suspected aircraft wreckage found off the east African coast will be sent to Australia where experts will examine whether it is a new piece in the puzzle of missing flight MH370, officials said The fragment was reportedly found near Mozambique and could provide clues in the huge[…]
Bangladesh could drop Islam as the country’s official religion following a string of extremist attacks against people of other faiths. The supreme court in the South Asia nation has began to hear arguments which challenge Islam’s status as the official state religion. It comes after a spate of attacks against[…]
The recent drought that began in 1998 in the eastern Mediterranean Levant region is probably the worst in 900 years, according to a new NASA report. Scientists studied tree rings in the area, which includes Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey, in order to reconstruct its drought history. “The[…]
Philippine authorities were on Wednesday probing an assassination attempt against an influential Saudi preacher, after the gunman was killed and two suspects arrested. Preacher Sheikh A’ed ِAl Qarni was wounded in a shooting as he left a university auditorium in the southern port city of Zamboanga, where the cleric had[…]
Palestine is turning to renewable to counter unreliable energy imports and save millions of dollars as it implements a new renewable energy law. Omar Kittaneh, Palestine’s minister of energy and natural resources, said at a Clean Energy Business Council event in Dubai yesterday that several initiatives were being released this[…]
Uganda and Tanzania are planning to build a pipeline from Ugandan oil fields to the Tanzanian coast in a move that could strike a blow to Kenyan pipeline plans. Statements issued after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Tanzanian counterpart John Magufuli met on Tuesday did not mention the fate[…]
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