Pakistani police and medics say a bomb attack on the outskirts of Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta has killed at least six people, including members of the country’s security forces and civilians, and wounded more than 20 others. Officials said the blast took place on the Quetta-Sibbi Road early on October 18 and hit a […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Iraqi security forces have launched a “major operation” in the Kurdish-held region of Kirkuk, advancing towards oil fields and a strategic military base, Al Jazeera reports citing Kurdish and Iraqi officials. The army captured several positions south of Kirkuk, including the North Gas Company station, a nearby processing plant and the industrial district […]
The Filipino leader of the Islamic State (IS) branch in Southeast Asia, Isnilon Hapilon, has been killed in the southern Philippine city of Marawi, where the army has been locked in a battle to dislodge the group since May, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Monday. Isnilon Hapilon, a leader of the Abu Sayyaf kidnapping gang […]
The number of victims in massive landslides and flooding in the north and center of Vietnam has risen. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Xinhua news agency has reported that the number of people killed in landslides and floods in Vietnam has reached 60, while 31 have been injured. The agency added, citing the Vietnamese Central Steering Committee […]
Turkey will continue its efforts for EU membership despite all hurdles, the Turkish deputy prime minister said Sunday. Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Eyup Sultan Mosque complex in Strasbourg, France, Bekir Bozdag said, “Turkey will strengthen the EU, and gain strength after being granted full EU membership.” “We have been striving for this […]
Malaysian police on Friday released a list of 45 foreigners arrested since January for suspected links to the Islamic State (IS) or other terror groups, a marked increase in arrests of alleged “foreign terrorist-fighters” compared with previous years. The suspects include nationals from as far away as Iraq, Turkey, Albania, Yemen, the Maldives and China […]
A combative Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte blasted critics of his anti-drugs war on Thursday and demanded that European Union envoys leave the country within 24 hours. He lashed out at the E.U. during a speech a month before the Philippines was to host a summit of Southeast Asian leaders and their European Union and U.S. […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Breached dykes, landslides, house collapses and flooding caused by a tropical depression over the past three days in Vietnam’s northern and central regions have killed 20 local people, injured five people, and left 12 others missing. They have also damaged thousands of houses and thousands of hectares of crops, and killed thousands […]
