Israeli police have closed off access to the Old city of Jerusalem for Palestinians who are not residents of the area, after two attacks in less than 12 hours that saw the killing of two Israelis and two Palestinians. On Sunday morning, a Palestinian man was shot dead by police[…]
An air strike, probably carried out by U.S.-led coalition forces, killed 19 staff and patients on Saturday, including three children, in a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, the aid group said. The U.S. military said it conducted an air strike “in[…]
The gunman who killed his English professor and eight others at an Oregon community college committed suicide after a shootout with police who arrived within five minutes and exchanged fire with him almost immediately, authorities said. Investigators had previously said the 26-year-old shooter was killed by the officers who raced[…]
Taliban fighters are expanding the fight to other northern provinces after Afghan government troops backed by NATO special forces evicted them from the centre of the strategic city of Kunduz. Al Jazeera’s Qais Azimy, reporting from Puli Khumri in neighbouring Baghlan province, said the Taliban had captured at least one[…]
Russia bombed Syria for a third day on Friday, mainly hitting areas held by rival insurgent groups rather than the Islamic State fighters it said it was targeting. Washington, which is leading its own air campaign against Islamic State, says Moscow has been using its campaign as a pretext to[…]
The United Nations backed a Saudi-led resolution on Friday to support Yemen in setting up a national inquiry into human rights violations, having ditched an attempt led by the Netherlands to mandate an independent U.N. investigation. Human Rights Watch, criticizing the move, said Yemeni authorities had neither investigated nor prosecuted[…]
Hundreds of Israeli troops were searching for suspected Palestinian gunmen on Friday after the killing of a settler couple between the illegal Israeli settlements of Itamar and Elon Moreh near Nablus in the northern West Bank on Thursday evening. A Ma’an reporter said dozens of Israeli army vehicles were stationed[…]
A gunman stalked onto a college campus in southwestern Oregon on Thursday and opened fire, killing nine people and wounding seven before police shot him to death, authorities said, in yet another burst of U.S. gun violence that ranked as the deadliest this year. The suspect, who witnesses say fired[…]
Eleven people have been killed in a crash of a US military transport aircraft at an airport in eastern Afghanistan, a US military spokesman has said. The crew of six US military service members were among the dead, along with another five passengers, civilians who were contracted employees of the[…]
Russia’s foreign minister has defended Russia’s military operations in Syria after it came under international criticism during a news conference at the UN headquarters in New York. Addressing the media on Thursday, Sergey Lavrov said the goal of the Russian military operation was in response to the request of President[…]
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