Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) fighters have consolidated their grip on territory in southern Yemen after capturing the towns of Zinjibar and Ja’ar from pro-government forces. The AQAP fighters launched an offensive on the towns at dawn on Wednesday, local officials said. Al-Khader Haidan, a leader within the popular[…]
Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi discussed the smooth transfer of power to her party with President Thein Sein on Wednesday, the first time the two have met since her National League for Democracy (NLD) swept a November election. When the new administration is sworn in early next year,[…]
A hospital supported by Médecins Sans Frontières in Homs has been partially destroyed in a “double-tap” barrel bombing, a signature tactic of the Syrian air force. The strikes on the hospital in Zafarana, a besieged town in northern Homs, killed seven people including a young girl, MSF said in a[…]
Pakistan executed four men on Wednesday for involvement in the massacre of 134 children at an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar last year, media and security sources said. The hangings were the first execution of civilians convicted by Pakistan’s military courts, which were set up after the[…]
The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) has accepted an invitation to join talks with other opposition groups in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Al Jazeera has learnt. The SNC will decide on Monday evening which of its 20 members it will send to a conference in Riyadh later this month, Naghm al-Ghadri, the[…]
Residents of the southern Egyptian city of Luxor have staged a rally in protest at the death of a man in police custody, the latest in a string of killings by security forces, the state-owned Ahram newspaper reported. The protest on Tuesday came almost a week after the death of[…]
Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing freed 16 Lebanese soldiers and policemen on Tuesday in exchange for the release of jailed radicals including the ex-wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Nusra Front seized the Lebanese 16 months ago during an attack on the Lebanese border town of Arsal mounted[…]
World leaders launched an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back rising temperatures, with the United States and China leading calls for the climate summit in Paris to mark a decisive turn in the fight against global warming. In a series of opening addresses to the U.N. talks, heads of[…]
Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been elected Burkina Faso’s new leader, the second civilian to become president since the West African country won independence in 1960, according to preliminary results released by the country’s electoral commission. The Independent National Electoral Commission said on Tuesday morning that results showed that Kabore,[…]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ankara of shooting down a Russian warplane to protect supplies of oil from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group to Turkey. On the sidelines of a global climate change conference near Paris on Monday, Putin said the downing of the[…]
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