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Taliban fighters kill 11 in attacks on police checkpoints in Afghanistan
Kandahar - Arab Today
At least 11 Afghan police officers were killed on Sunday when Taliban fighters assaulted their checkpoints in volatile Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, authorities said. The assaults onKabul mosque hit by deadly suicide bomb attack
Kuwait City - Arab Today
A suicide bomber has killed at least 27 people at a Shia Muslim mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, police say. At least 35 more people were woundedAl-Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed in Afghanistan
Kabul - Arab Today
A senior Al-Qaeda leader on the Indian subcontinent and the head of the Taliban's "special forces" in southern Helmand have been killed in recent days in Afghanistan, Afghan
Algerian-French relations reviewed
Algiers - BNA
Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal received today his French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve. They discussed ways of bolstering bilateral relations as well as regional and international issues of commonAlgeria women footballers wave red card at stigma
Algiers - Arab today
When Fathia was seven years old, she would wait each day for classes to end, throw down her schoolbag and rush to play football with the boys fromAlgerian army discovers war weapons near border
Algiers - ArabToday
Algerian Defense Ministry on Saturday said counter terrorism troops deployed along the southern border discovered a bunker full of war weapons in the locality of In Guezzam near
Disabled Palestinian killed by Israeli fire
Gaza City - Arab Today
Palestinian officials exhumed the body of a disabled Gazan man Sunday as part of efforts to prove Israeli forces shot him in the head during recent protests andArmy destroys al-Nusra positions in outskirts of al-Rehjan
Hama - Arab Today
Syrian Arab Army units destroyed on Sunday Jabhat al-Nusra fortified hideouts and dens in the outskirts of al-Rehjan town which is located around 70 km northeast of HamaPalestinians continue demonstrations against Trump’s
Occupied Jerusalem - Arab Today
Two Palestinians were killed in airstrikes staged by Israeli warplanes on Gaza Strip at dawn on Saturday as the total number of the martyrs since yesterday rose to
At least 25 dead after migrant boat sinks off Libya
Tripoli - Arab Today
At least 25 migrants died after their boat sank off Libya's western coast on Saturday and survivors were being brought back to port in Tripoli, Libyan coastguard officialsHilltop tribe’s bitterness a challenge for Libya
Bani Walid - Arab Today
Elders of a powerful tribe that defended the regime of former leader Muammar Qaddafi have a message for the UN as it tries to broker peace in Libya12 persons killed, 5 injured in air raid
Benghazi - MENA
A medical source at Al Harish Hospital said that 12 civilians, including children and women, were killed in an airstrike on the eastern Libyan city of Derna. In
Police end militant siege of hotel in Mogadishu
Mogadishu - MENA
Somali police on Sunday ended an Islamist militant siege of a hotel in the capital, The Voice of America reported. Officials said at least 23 people were killedtruck bomb and gunmen kill at least 23
Mogadishu - MENA
A truck bomb detonated outside a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, minutes before gunmen on foot stormed the building on Saturday afternoon, killing at least 23 people andNiger says 12 soldiers killed in attack near Mali
Niamey - Arab Today
The ambush in Niger that left four U.S. soldiers dead was the result of a major intelligence failure—and more than two weeks after the fatal incident, the Pentagon
Iran nuclear agreement reached
Kuwait City - Arab Today
A deal on limiting Iran's nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions has been reached at talks in Vienna, diplomats say. Under the agreement, access for nuclearKhatami demands closure of Israeli entity embassies
Tehran(Iran) - Arab Today
Member of Iranian Assembly of Experts Sheikh, Ahmad Khatami, called for taking actual steps against Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital until this recognition is rescind.Iran draws on Samsung expertise to achieve high-tech boost
Tehran(Iran) - Arab Today
South Korean Samsung company cooperates with Iran in training the Iranian experts to achieve the state-of-art technologies, Financial Tribune daily reported on Saturday. Samsung has set up an
Rebel fire kills 9, including journalist, in Yemen's Taez
Aden - Arab Today
Huthi rebel rocket fire killed nine people, including a journalist and a child, in Yemen's southwest province of Taez on Monday, a government official said. A barrage ofSaudi Arabia intercepts Yemen rebel missile
Riyadh - Arab Today
Saudi Arabia on Friday intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Yemen into the kingdom's south, as Riyadh and its allies said the attack "proved" Iran's support for Yemen'sYemenis stash supplies, fearing worst after death
Sanaa - Arab Today
Sanaa residents were stocking up on goods and seeking urgent care on Wednesday, fearing an impending resumption of hostilities after a showdown between Houthi rebels and loyalists of
US launches 30 airstrikes in two days against al-Qaeda in Yemen
Aden - Arab Today
The United States carried out a second day of air strikes against al-Qaeda in Yemen on Friday, US officials said, in the latest sign of increasing US militaryAir strikes on Syrian ex-Qaeda branch kill 37
Beirut - Arab Today
Air strikes on Al-Qaeda's former affiliate in Syria on Tuesday killed 37 people in the country's northwest, most of them civilians, a monitoring group said. The headquarters of7 Qaeda members killed in Yemen drone
Aden - Arab Today
Seven suspected Al-Qaeda members have been killed in drone strikes in central Yemen that were probably carried out by US forces, security sources said on Sunday. A security
UN chief regrets Morocco 'misunderstanding' over Western Sahara remark
United Nations - Arab Today
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon regrets a "misunderstanding" over his use of the word "occupation" to describe Morocco's annexation of Western Sahara, which led to Morocco expelling dozens ofSyrian refugee crisis demands united global action
United Nations - Arab Today
UN chief Ban Ki-moon Wednesday called for a united global effort to tackle the Syrian refugee crisis, as he opened a conference on securing resettlement places for nearlyUN Syria envoy to propose a new ‘initiative’
United Nations - Arab Today
The U.N. envoy for Syria says he is preparing "a quite clear political initiative" to help revive the stalled Syria peace talks aimed at resolving the country’s devastating
Sudan students, police clash on third day
Khartoum - Arab Today
Hundreds of Sudanese students from the University of Khartoum threw stones at anti-riot police Monday on a third day of protests against soaring bread prices, an AFP correspondentSouth Sudan's male midwives overcome cultural prejudice to
JUBA - Arab Today
As violence continues in some parts of South Sudan, some health professionals in the war-torn country remain committed to saving lives despite difficult working conditions and shortage of5m in Sudan need aid
South Sudan - NNA
More than five million people in Sudan need urgent assistance after new displacements in Darfur and a surge of refugees arriving from South Sudan, a top European Commission
Rebel shellfire kills three in Damascus
Damascus - Arab Today
Three people including a child were killed Tuesday in rebel shelling of the eastern sector of the Syrian capital Damascus, the official SANA news agency reported. "Armed groupsUS-led air strikes kill 23 civilians in Syria: monitor
Beirut - Arab Today
Air strikes by a US-led coalition killed 23 civilians Wednesday in a village held by the Daesh group in Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province, a monitor said. “AtShukri affirms importance of finding political solution to crisis in Syria
Cairo - Arab Today
Egyptian Foreign Minister, Samih Shukri, reiterated the necessity of finding a political solution to the crisis in Syria to realize stability and to guarantee that the terrorist organizations
7arrested in Egypt after raising rainbow flag at concert
Cairo - Arab Today
Egyptian police arrested seven people on Monday after they were seen raising a rainbow flag at a concert, security sources said, in a rare public show of supportEgyptian forces open fire, move in to clear Cairo protests
Kuwait City - Arab Today
Egyptian security forces killed at least 30 people on Wednesday when they moved in to clear a camp of Cairo protesters demanding the reinstatement of deposed President MohamedEgypt's Sisi orders army to restore Sinai security in 3 months
Cairo - Arab Today
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ordered the army's chief of staff on Wednesday to restore security and stability in the restive part of the Sinai Peninsula within three months.
Hospital terror bombing in Pakistan condemned
UNITED NATIONS - Arab Today
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the terrorist bombing that took place Monday at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, noting that the targeting of mourners at a civilianMagnitude 4.6 earthquake strikes Northern Pakistan
Islamabad - BNA
A magnitude 4. 6 earthquake on the Richter scale today hit the Northern regions of Pakistan. There were no reports of human casualties or material losses in thePakistan blasts: Burials amid anger after Peshawar church attack
Kuwait City - Arab Today
It is thought to be the deadliest ever attack on Pakistan's Christians. A faction of the Pakistani Taliban said it ordered the attack to retaliate against US drone
Two dead as extremists attack Mali tourist resort
Bamako , Mali - Arab Today
Suspected Islamic extremists crying “Allahu Akbar” stormed a tourist resort popular with foreigners on the edge of the Malian capital Bamako on Sunday, briefly seizing hostages and leaving10 dead, 9 others hurt in Mali army convoy ambush
Bamako - Arab Today
Witnesses say at least 10 Malian soldiers have been killed and nine others wounded in an ambush on a military convoy in central Mali. Military spokesman Lt. Col.20 suicides killed in Mali’s north
Paris - Arab Today
French soldiers killed or captured about 20 terrorists in Mali’s restive north where a French soldier was killed on April 5, the French chief of staff said Sunday.
Iraqi PM declares full liberation of iraq from IS
Baghdad - Arab Today
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Saturday officially declared full liberation of Iraq from the Islamic State (IS) militants after Iraqi forces recaptured all the areas once seized7 killed as Iraqi army helicopter crash during routine flight
Baghdad - Arab Today
An Iraqi army helicopter crashed during a routine flight on Sunday, killing all seven people on board, a military statement and Iraqi air force officers said. The Russian-madeAbadi says Iraq to act soon over border areas in stand-off
