There are 17997 articles

  • Houthi shelling kills civilians in Saudi border city

    Projectiles fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels have killed seven civilians in the southern Saudi city of Najran, Saudi state television has reported. The Houthis targeted a crowd on Tuesday at an industrial area of Najran, close to the Yemeni border, Ekhbariyah television channel said. Four Saudi citizens and three expatriate workers were among the dead,.. More

  • Deaths in Kashmir clashes on Indian Independence Day

    Several people, including a teenage boy, have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir in fierce gun battles between protesters and security forces in the disputed region. The latest bloodshed came as India celebrated its independence day on Monday. A 16-year-old protester was shot dead late on Monday following clashes between Indian troops and.. More

  • Police, civilians killed in Turkey car bomb blast

    At least four police officers and three civilians, including a child, have been killed in a powerful car bomb explosion outside a police station near Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbakir, according to state media. A further 21 people, including six police officers, were also wounded in the blast on Monday near a police control post on a highway.. More

  • Bus blast kills fighters at Syrian border crossing with Turkey

    A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest on a bus in Syria near the Atmeh border crossing into Turkey late on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 25 others, some critically, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The bus was carrying opposition forces, the observatory reported. Pictures circulating on social media, which Reuters.. More

  • Heavy fighting in Aleppo as Syrian opposition renew their assault

    Heavy fighting took place in different sectors of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday as opposition forces assaulted two regime strongholds in the city's northwest and south, a monitor of the war said. Fighting for control of Aleppo, split between its regime-held west and opposition-held eastern neighborhoods, has intensified in recent weeks causing.. More

  • Turkey says no compromise with Washington on Gulen's extradition

    Turkey will not compromise with Washington over the extradition of Fethullah Gulen it accuses of orchestrating a failed coup, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Saturday, warning of rising anti-Americanism if the United States fails to extradite. Yildirim's comments, at a briefing for local reporters, were the latest to take aim at Turkey's top.. More

  • Imam and associate killed in New York City in US

    A Muslim imam of a mosque in New York City and his associate have been shot dead while walking along together following afternoon prayers, authorities say. The men were approached by a man from behind and shot both in the head on Saturday in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, a police spokesperson said. Police said no arrests had been made. The.. More

  • Civilians, police officers killed in Turkey blasts

    At least three people, including one police officer, were killed and 30 others wounded, including five police officers, when a handmade explosive was detonated by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as a police vehicle was passing in the Kiziltepe district of the southeastern Mardin province on Wednesday, according to Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan. The.. More

  • Suspected gas attack on Aleppo causes deaths, injuries

    At least four people died and many suffered breathing difficulties when a gas, believed to be chlorine, was dropped alongside barrel bombs on a neighborhood of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday, a hospital and a civil defense group told Reuters. Hamza Khatib, the manager of Al Quds hospital in Aleppo, told a Reuters photographer the hospital had.. More

  • Syrian opposition forces deny losing ground in Aleppo

    Syrian opposition fighters have rejected claims that regime forces and its allies, including fighters from the Shia Lebanese Hezbollah armed group, have taken back control of parts of Aleppo recently captured by opposition. Hassan al-Eshra, a fighter in the Jaysh al-Islam armed group, said they and other opposition groups were still in control of the.. More

  • Rights group condemns Iran hanging of 20 Sunnis

    Human Rights Watch has denounced Iran's hanging of 20 Sunni prisoners in one of its biggest mass executions in years as a "shameful low point in its human rights record". Shia-majority Iran last week said it had hanged 20 "terrorist" Sunni prisoners on Tuesday convicted of carrying out a string of attacks against civilians and religious.. More

  • Hundreds of protesters arrested in Kashmir

    Government forces have arrested more than a thousand protesters in Indian-controlled Kashmir over the past two weeks in an attempt to stem anti-India demonstrations in the Himalayan region, a top policeman has said. Inspector-General Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gillani said on Monday that the arrests were made in a bid to end a month of protests in which more.. More

  • Deaths as air strikes hit Idlib hospital

    At least 10 people, including three children and four women, have been killed in air strikes on a hospital in northwestern Syria's opposition-held Idlib province. Al Jazeera's Adham Abu Hossam, reporting from the site of the attack in Meles, a town about 15km from Idlib city, said Saturday's raids had also left many in critical condition. "Destruction.. More

  • President Erdogan and opposition unite in Turkey rally

    Massive crowd joins president and opposition leaders in Istanbul rally, denouncing last month's failed coup. The massive rally on Sunday united the country's president, the prime minister and two opposition party leaders around a single issue for the first time in years. "The world is looking at you now," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told.. More

  • Palestinian prisoners end hunger strike in deal with Israel

    More than 200 Palestinian prisoners have halted their hunger strike after reaching a deal with Israeli prison authorities to end body searches and improve prison conditions, the Gaza-based Prisoner's Media Office said. The group published what it said was the terms of the agreement on Saturday. The deal reportedly includes an end to strip searches.. More