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Israeli police shoot dead 21-year-old Palestinian after he wounds border policeman

Israeli police shoot dead 21-year-old Palestinian after he wounds border policeman

A Palestinian man has been shot dead by Israeli forces after stabbing a border policeman at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, the army and Palestinian medics have said. Israeli police on Saturday said the man stabbed a border police officer at the Beita junction near Nablus, and an officer nearby opened fire and […]

Living In Turkey Today Means Experiencing A Creeping Sense Of Dread

Living In Turkey Today Means Experiencing A Creeping Sense Of Dread

The Suruc attack lit the fuse. The political earthquake that shook Turkey on June 7 had been little felt in the lives of every day Turks when a suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) bombing in the border town of Suruc on July 20, killed 33 young activists planning to deliver aid […]

UN warns armed factions in Yemen over “the deliberate starvation of civilians”

UN warns armed factions in Yemen over “the deliberate starvation of civilians”

A UN official on Tuesday warned armed factions in Yemen over “the deliberate starvation of civilians”, as the embattled country grapples with a food crisis that has left 850,000 children facing acute malnutrition. Six million people are “severely food insecure”, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, said in a statement. […]

Amnesty says peacekeepers killed two civilians and raped 12-year-old girl in Bangui

Amnesty says peacekeepers killed two civilians and raped 12-year-old girl in Bangui

Amnesty International has accused UN peacekeepers of killing a 16-year-old boy and his father and raping a 12-year-old girl in separate incidents in Central African Republic. Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, is “personally dismayed and disappointed” and might make a public statement, his spokesman said on Tuesday. “We would like to emphasise once more that no […]

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for deadly Iraq attacks

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for deadly Iraq attacks

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has claimed responsibility for attacks that have killed at least 57 people near the eastern Iraqi city of Baquba. More than 80 people were injured in Monday’s attacks, which happened in predominantly Shia areas in Diyala province. The deadliest attack occurred in the town of […]

Afghanistan On track For Its Bloodiest Year For Civilians – UN

Afghanistan On track For Its Bloodiest Year For Civilians – UN

A wave of violence has engulfed the Afghan capital over the past few days, killing at least 50 people, mostly civilians. “On Saturday alone, within 24 hours, we had three attacks,” says Mujib Mashal, a reporter for the New York Times in Kabul. “One targeted a residential area, in the middle of the night. It […]

Suicide Bomber Training And Bomb Producing Factories Operate From Pakistan Says Afghan President Ashraf Ghani

Suicide Bomber Training And Bomb Producing Factories Operate From Pakistan Says Afghan President Ashraf Ghani

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has accused Pakistan of sending “messages of war” and harbouring bomb-making camps, after a wave of devastating blasts in Kabul killed at least 56 people. Ghani said on Monday that Pakistan has failed to rein in the Taliban, as peace talks falter and armed groups step up attacks that are testing […]

A firing squad of the Islamic State terrorist group on Saturday executed at least 300 civil servants

A firing squad of the Islamic State terrorist group on Saturday executed at least 300 civil servants

A firing squad of the Islamic State terrorist group on Saturday executed at least 300 civil servants who worked for the Iraqi Supreme Electoral Commission at a military camp in Iraqi city of Mosul, according to witnesses and security officials. The spokesman for National Multitude, a military force in Nineveh province whose capital is Mosul, […]

South Sudan women accuse soldiers of rape – govt cautions against believing claims

South Sudan women accuse soldiers of rape – govt cautions against believing claims

The displaced women of Bentiu have horrific stories to tell. They came from villages in Unity State in South Sudan. When recalling home, one of the first things they’ll mention, and with pride, is that they owned cattle. Cattle are South Sudanese gold. The greater the number of cows one owns, the higher the social […]

Nations across the globe will soon be engulfed by a ‘third world war’ sparked by terrorists

Nations across the globe will soon be engulfed by a ‘third world war’ sparked by terrorists

A senior Iranian official on Wednesday warned of an impending “third world war” that will be sparked by terrorists, according to regional reports. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the chairman of Iran’s powerful Expediency Council, warned in comments that the “outbreak of World War III” is coming in the near future, according to a report by Iran’s […]

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