Taliban capture northern Afghan base, kill at least 14 soldiers: Officials
Mazar-i-Sharif: Taliban fighters overran a northern Afghan army base, officials said today, killing at least 14 soldiers with dozens feared captured and others said to have fled in the latest blow to the country’s security forces. Militants gained control of the base in Ghormach district of volatile Faryab province after days of heavy fighting, according […]
Indonesia earthquake: Death toll rises to 387, around 13,000 injured
Mataram: An earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok has killed 387 people, authorities said on Saturday, adding hundreds of thousands of displaced people were still short of clean water, food and medicine nearly a week on. The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake Sunday leveled tens of thousands of homes, mosques and businesses across Lombok, just one […]
UN General Assembly approves Chile’s Bachelet as rights chief
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations General Assembly approved on Friday the appointment of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet as the world body’s new human rights chief. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of Bachelet on Wednesday. She will replace Jordan’s Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, who is stepping down at the end of the month after […]
Syria: At least 22 killed in Idlib and Aleppo airstrikes
BEIRUT: Government airstrikes on opposition-held territory in northwest Syria killed at least 22 people, a monitoring group said Friday, as the UN’s children’s agency warned a new battle in the war-torn country could affect the lives of 1 million children Government forces unleashed a wave of airstrikes across Idlib, Aleppo and Hama provinces after days […]
Imran Khan wants dialogue with India to resolve Kashmir dispute
ISLAMABAD – Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria on Friday called on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and Prime Minister designate Imran Khan at his residence in Bani Gala. During the meeting, the Indian envoy felicitated Imran Khan on his party’s thumping victory in July 25 general elections and also convayed his leadership’s messages of […]
Taliban fighters storm Afghanistan’s Ghazni
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters): Heavily armed Taliban fighters attacked Ghazni city in central Afghanistan early on Friday, burning police checkpoints, shelling houses and business areas and seizing control of parts of the city before being beaten back, officials said US attack helicopters and drone aircraft provided government forces with air support. But as smoke rose across […]
Boko Haram militants kill 17 Nigerian soldiers
KANO: At least 17 Nigerian soldiers were killed in a fresh Boko Haram attack on a military base in the country’s northeast, military sources told AFP Thursday, the third assault on three different bases in less than a month. On Wednesday evening, heavily armed jihadists riding in trucks stormed and looted weapons and vehicles from […]
Yemen rebels say Saudi coalition airstrike in north kills 50
SANA’A (YEMEN): ,Yemen’s stalemated, three-year war has killed over 10,000 people, badly damaged Yemen’s infrastructure and crippled its health system. An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shia rebels hit a bus driving in a busy market in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing least 50 people including children and wounding 77, Yemen’s rebel-run Al Masirah […]
Witch doctor trapped woman in an Indonesian cave as sex slave for 15 yrs, held
Indonesia: 28-year-old woman rescued from a cave after 15 years of disappearance. The woman was 13-year-old when her parents had taken her to a shaman in rural Indonesia and left her with him. But when she never returned, parents asked shaman about her, he said that she had gone to Jakarta to find work and […]
Trump administration to impose new sanctions on Russia for Skripal poisoning
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is hitting Russia with new sanctions punishing President Vladimir Putin’s government for using a chemical weapon against an ex-spy in Britain, NBC News reported on Wednesday. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has signed off on a determination that Russia violated international law by poisoning the former spy, Sergei Skripal, and his […]
