Insiders including two interns were among the attackers who launched a gun-and-grenade assault this week on Afghanistan’s largest military hospital, killing more than 100 people, multiple surviving staff and security sources told AFP. The six-hour attack on the Sardar Daud Khan hospital on Wednesday began when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the back … Read more
A US drone strike killed two suspected members of Al-Qaeda in southern Yemen on Saturday, a security official said, as Washington steps up a campaign against jihadists. The raid came after two days of intensive air strikes by US warplanes on jihadists in the war-torn country. The raid in Ahwar, in the southern province of … Read more
Dubai authorities are grappling with new ways of keeping the emirate’s skies safe after drones halted air traffic at one of the world’s busiest airports three times last year. The delays were necessary to protect passengers, officials said, but they hit thousands of travellers and cost airlines millions of dollars. Drones pose a “threat to … Read more
Bamako (AFP) – Malian officials said Friday two suspected jihadists have been arrested after they planned to stage a suicide attack in the capital Bamako during the France-Africa summit earlier this month. “In two separate operations in Bamako on Thursday, Malian special intelligence operatives arrested two jihadists who were preparing to commit a large scale … Read more
Lithuania has announced plans to build a fence to boost security on its border with Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave. The move comes amid heightened tensions in the Baltic region, where Nato is deploying extra troops and Russia has installed nuclear-capable missiles. The fence will cover about 135km (84 miles) of border, from Vistytis to the Neman … Read more
Afghan policemen at the site of the suicide bomb attack in Kabul [Omar Sobhani/Reuters] More than 20 people have been killed in twin suicide blasts near Afghanistan’s parliament in the capital, Kabul, according to officials, in an attack claimed by the Afghan Taliban. Security officials said a suicide bomber blew himself up on Tuesday in … Read more
The just ended inaugural ceremony will have a lot of memorable moments but one which has just become the new “craze” of a lot of people on micro-blogging site, twitter, is Nana Addo’s few minutes if cough with the #coughchallenge. President was seized by cough as he was delivering his inaugural speech at the Independence … Read more
Edgar Matobato’s days are spent — for now, at least — in a verdant, bucolic compound some way outside Manila. Chickens, ubiquitous in the rural Philippines, scratch in the dirt and there is a sizable supply of food stacked up on the porch of one of the small structures that make up the compound. It’s … Read more
A manhunt is underway for a 24-year-old Tunisia native in connection with this week’s Christmas market attack in Berlin — a man German authorities say may be “violent and armed” and had been in contact with radical Islamist groups. Anis Amri is being sought in Monday’s truck attack, which left 12 people dead and 48 … Read more
A manhunt is underway for a 24-year-old Tunisia native in connection with this week’s Christmas market attack in Berlin — a man German authorities say may be “violent and armed” and had been in contact with radical Islamist groups. Anis Amri is being sought in Monday’s truck attack, which left 12 people dead and 48 … Read more
Turkish police have detained six people over the killing of the Russian ambassador, state media said, who was shot in the back as he gave a speech in Ankara on Monday by an off-duty police officer shouting “Don’t forget Aleppo” and “Allahu Akbar”. The state-run Anadolu agency said on Tuesday the attacker’s mother, father, sister … Read more
The special voting exercise ongoing in polling stations across all 275 constituencies, is experiencing some challenges. While the Electoral Commission (EC) is insisting persons who registered for special voting should be allowed to vote at the various constituencies they had been designated to, Citi News’ Fred Djabanor who reported from Klottey Korle, stated that he … Read more
The special voting exercise ongoing in polling stations across all 275 constituencies, is experiencing some challenges. While the Electoral Commission (EC) is insisting persons who registered for special voting should be allowed to vote at the various constituencies they had been designated to, Citi News’ Fred Djabanor who reported from Klottey Korle, stated that he … Read more
Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated as wildfires rage through parts of Israel’s third largest city of Haifa. The fires follow a two-month drought and are being fanned by strong winds in the north of the city. Wildfires are also threatening homes near Jerusalem and in the West Bank. Israel’s police chief said … Read more
At least 80 people, many of them Shia pilgrims, have been killed in a truck bomb attack at a road stop in Iraq, a security official says. The blast struck at a petrol station and restaurant near Hilla, some 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad. Busloads of pilgrims had stopped there on their way … Read more
An Iraqi paramilitary force says it has seized a key road west of Mosul, effectively encircling the city controlled by so-called Islamic State. The Popular Mobilisation (Hashd al-Shaabi) declared it had taken control of the road between Tal Afar and Sinjar after linking up with Kurdish forces. IS militants still control the section of the … Read more
Pakistan has deported Sharbat Gula, the “green-eyed Afghan girl” in the renowned 1985 National Geographic photo, for using fraudulent identity documents, according to officials. Police escorted Gula on Tuesday from a Peshawar hospital, where she had been staying since her arrest last month for living illegally in Pakistan. Gula, who had become the symbol of … Read more
Donald Trump was rushed off stage Saturday night during a campaign rally here as security officials swarmed, but the candidate emerged back on stage after a few minutes and finished his speech. Some kind of a disturbance had occurred in the front of the room where Trump was speaking. He put his hand above his … Read more
The facts and figures being bandied about a bomb scare in Kumasi do not add up. According to an official bulletin issued by the Ashanti Regional Minister, Alexander Ackon, a police officer on duty at the residence of his deputy, Andy Osei-Okrah, at a suburb in Kumasi, reported sighting two people on a motorbike dropping … Read more
MOGADISHU (AFP) – Fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group said Sunday they had retaken control of a town in central Somalia after hundreds of Ethiopian troops serving with the African Union’s AMISOM force withdrew. It was the third time this month that the Islamist group moved into a town in the region after the departure … Read more