The Pakistani branch of the Taliban is facing widespread condemnation after carrying out an assault on a military school in Peshawar, Pakistan, which resulted in the deaths of 132 innocent children. The attack was claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in retaliation for an ongoing Pakistani military counter-terrorism operation in[…]
Suspected Taliban fighters have detonated suicide bombs and then stormed a bank branch in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, officials have said, adding a total of 13 people died in the incident. A spokesman for the Helmand governor said that the fighters engaged in a firefight with security forces[…]
OPINION by Safiyyah Surtee Condemning the Taliban and other criminal groups every time they commit yet another atrocity is necessary but it is not effective. It can seem like we only care and express outrage after the deed is done, when truly we need to be speaking, acting and working[…]
Pakistan began three days of mourning Wednesday for the 132 children and nine school staff massacred by the Taliban in the country’s deadliest ever terror attack, as the world united in revulsion. The 141 people were killed when insurgents stormed an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday[…]
The South African government on Tuesday condemned a terrorist attack in Pakistan which killed 130 people, mostly children, the department of international relations said. “The South African Government has today… joined the international community in condemning in the strongest possible terms the inhumane and barbaric terrorist attack against a school[…]
A bloody Taliban raid on an army-run school in northwest Pakistan has ended, police said Tuesday, with all six attackers dead. The assault on the school in the city of Peshawar killed at least 130 people, most of them students, according to officials. “The combat operation is over, the security personnel[…]
A teenage survivor of Tuesday’s Taliban attack on a Pakistan school described how he played dead after being shot in both legs by insurgents hunting down students to kill. Taliban fighters rampaged through an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar and killed at least 130 people, most of[…]
The South African woman whose family was killed in Afghanistan believes God saved her life for a reason, Beeld newspaper reported on Tuesday. In a phone interview with the Afrikaans daily, Hannelie Groenewald said she would have wanted to die with her husband and two teenage children, “but God clearly[…]
The latest Taliban strike in Kabul killed a South African father running an education charity and his two teenage children, a family spokeswoman said Sunday, as the city police chief resigned after a spate of attacks. With the US-led NATO war against the Taliban nearing its end, the insurgents have[…]
Taliban insurgents have launched a prolonged attack on a major Afghan army base that was handed over by NATO forces last month, officials said Friday, in another sign the militants are on the offensive as foreign troops leave. Camp Bastion, now know as Shorabak, was Britain’s biggest military base in[…]
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