Amnesty International is calling on Iranian authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release a woman who was arrested in Tehran last month for apparently protesting peacefully against the country’s mandatory Islamic dress code. In a January 24 statement, the London-based rights group also reiterated its calls on the authorities to “end the persecution of women who […]
Philippine security forces said Wednesday they had captured a Spanish supporter of Islamic State-linked militants and the widow of a Filipino leader of last year’s siege in southern Marawi city through separate arrests. The Philippine military said it arrested a man identified as Spaniard Abdelhakim Labidi Adib, 20, earlier in the week on the southern […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Afghan Special Forces ended an overnight siege at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel on Sunday, killing the last gunman from a group of three attackers who stormed the hotel, taking hostages and battling security forces for hours. Two gunmen were killed on Saturday night. It was initially reported that four gunmen had attacked the […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Following the full withdrawal of armed rebel groups from northeast Hama and southwest Aleppo provinces, the Islamic State group has filled the vacuum, sending out forces to capture the dozens of abandoned towns and villages and in doing so has de facto established a new empire – this time in Syria’s northwest, Al-Masdar […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Seven people were injured on Friday morning in the attack by a teenager with an axe on a school in Ulan-Ude, Head of the Regional Centre for Disaster Medicine of Buryatia Vyacheslav Timkin told TASS. “Seven people were injured: six children and one woman,” he said. Official representative of the Russian Investigative […]
The death of the notorious Daesh-affiliated rapper Deso Dogg was previously reported by US authorities, however, it later turned out that he had survived. A German rapper, who pleged an oath of loyalty to Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in an airstrike in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province, the SITE monitoring group reported. […]
Philippine government officials declared a state of calamity on Wednesday as the number of people evacuating the erupting Mayon volcano swelled to more than 5,000 families. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said evacuees from villages and towns within a 7-km (4.3-mile) danger zone around the volcano, located in Albay province on Luzon […]
Police in western Myanmar’s volatile Rakhine state shot dead at least seven ethnic Rakhine protesters and wounded 13 others after members of the minority group marking a nationalist Buddhist anniversary tried to take over a local government building, sources said Wednesday. More than 4,000 ethnic Rakhines had gathered in the town of Mrauk U Tuesday […]
