Afghan forces killed two militants who had set off a car bomb and burst into the American University campus in Kabul on Wednesday evening, trapping hundreds of students and staff inside for several hours. The attack claimed lives of at least twelve people, according to police. Seven students, three officers[…]
Four men torched a car from the ride hailing company Uber in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Wednesday, police said, on the same day Uber launched its services in Mombasa, Kenya’s second largest city. The driver escaped unhurt, police said. This is the second attack against Uber cars in Kenya[…]
A suspected French jihadist with possible links to the Islamic State group was charged on Sunday with plotting an attack in France and remanded, a judicial source said. The 28-year-old French-Moroccan named as Youssef Ettaoujar was known to police as he was one of the first to be convicted of[…]
Nariman Reinke, a German soldier of Moroccan origin, decided to take a stand against the Cologne assaults of New Year’s Eve and the racism that followed. But she has received a decidedly mixed response. In the days after New Year’s Eve, police reported that a series of sexual assaults and[…]
At least six people – and eight attackers – were killed when al-Shabab suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a seafront hotel and restaurant in the Somali capital, the intelligence agency said. A car laden with explosives rammed into the Beach View Hotel on Lido beach on Thursday evening, after which[…]
At least 19 people have been killed in an attack that lasted six hours at a university in northwest Pakistan, according to an army spokesperson. Attackers scaled a wall and cut through barbed wire on Wednesday morning at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, about 140km from the capital Islamabad.[…]
A group of militants stormed a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday and killed at least eight people, officials said, with firing inside the campus still going on and two explosions heard. Deputy Inspector General Saeed Wazir said at least three students had been killed in the attack, and[…]
Indonesia is bracing for the return of experienced Islamic State fighters from the Middle East who would be capable of carrying out attacks far more deadly than the assault on Jakarta last week, the country’s police chief said on Monday. Thursday’s attack in the heart of Jakarta was a hastily[…]
A series of bombing attacks and shootings across Iraq have left scores dead and dozens more wounded, security officials said. At least 19 people were killed and 48 injured in an attack on the al-Jawhara shopping centre in the capital, Baghdad, on Monday. Gunmen charged into the mall after a[…]
Two suspected militants stabbed and wounded two Austrians and a Swede at a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, the interior ministry has said. Security forces opened fire at the two assailants on Friday, killing one and seriously wounding the other, according to a ministry statement. It[…]
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