At least 29 people suffered minor injuries in an explosion in a busy part of New York that the city’s mayor said appeared to be intentional, adding there was no evidence of a “terror connection”. “There is no specific and credible threat against New York City at this point in[…]
At least 131 people, including many children, were killed and hundreds wounded in a car bombing in a crowded commercial area in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, hospital and police sources have told Al Jazeera. The powerful explosion early on Sunday came near the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan,[…]
Four suspects have been detained for questioning in connection to a bomb attack that targeted a police vehicle near the main tourist district in central Istanbul, killing 11 and injuring 36 people. The four were arrested hours after Tuesday’s attack and were being held at Istanbul’s main police headquarters, Turkish[…]
At least six people have been killed and 20 injured in separate explosions in the Turkish towns of Silopi and Van located in the southeastern part of the country, which is mainly inhabited by Kurds, media reports, citing security sources. Both attacks targeted security forces. Four civilians have been killed[…]
An explosion believed to have been caused by a suicide bomber has hit the popular Istiklal Street in central Istanbul’s Taksim square area. Government officials said at least five people were killed and 36 were injured – seven seriously – in Saturday morning’s explosion. The Israeli government confirmed that three[…]
Over 70 people were killed and 100 others wounded in Sadr City, a southern suburb of the Iraqi capital, as two bombs went off at a crowded market, according to Reuters. Islamic State militants claim the attack. Earlier, Alsumaria TV reported 28 fatalities. Security sources also told the channel there[…]
Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) carte blanche to operate in Yemen may well be under threat, after yet another of the humanitarian aid organisation’s facilities in the war-torn gulf state was bombed on Sunday. The attack, which has been strongly condemned by the organisation, is the third such incident to hit[…]
The Saudi-led coalition and Yemen’s foreign ministry denied Iran’s accusation that Saudi warplanes had hit its embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. Iran on Thursday said the warplanes had attacked its embassy in Yemen’s capital on Wednesday night, an accusation that exacerbated tension between the major Shi’ite and Sunni[…]
Three mosques in an Iraqi city south of Baghdad have been bombed and partially destroyed, with no group yet claiming responsibility. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi confirmed that the attacks on Sunni mosques in the city of Hilla, in Iraq’s Babil governorate took place on Sunday night. He warned the population[…]
At least 22 people have been killed and dozen others wounded in a suicide attack outside a government office in Pakistan, police told Al Jazeera. The attack happened on Tuesday at an office of the National Database and Registration Authority in the town of Mardan, in the country’s northwest. “A[…]
WhatsApp us 