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9 ALP personnel killed in attack on Balkh post
Mazar-i-Sharif - Arab Today
Nine Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel, including a commander, have been killed in a Taliban attack in northern Balkh province, an official said on Tuesday. Police spokesman SherTaliban 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 wounded
19 Christian clerics to be beatified in "recognition" of commitment to Algeria
Algiers - Aps
The beatification of 19 Christian clerics, including the seven monks assassinated in Tibhirine (Medea), on next 8 December in Oran, constitutes a "religious recognition" for them having chosenFour gold panners arrested in Tamanrasset
Algiers - APS
Four gold panners, in possession of metal detecting devices, were arrested Friday in Tamanrasset by an Army detachment, the ministry of National Defence said in a statement.One terrorist supporter arrested in Tizi Ouzou
Algiers - Arab Today
One terrorist supporter has been arrested Thursday in Tizi Ouzou by a detachment of the National People's Army (ANP), said Friday a statement from the National Defence Ministry
Brutal beating kills Palestinian youth hours after his arrest by IOF
Ramallah - PNN
A Palestinian youth on Tuesday morning was announced dead after he was heavily assaulted and arrested by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) who stormed his home in the townIOF Kills three Palestinians, Including 14-year Old in Gaza Border Clashes
Gaza - PNN
Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire during clashes along the Israel-Gaza border fence Friday, Gaza’s Health Ministry said. The three Palestinians, including a minor, were killedIsraeli bulldozers block roads leading to Khan al-Ahmar
Jerusalem - WAFA
Israeli bulldozers proceeded on Friday to block several roads leading to Khan al-Ahmar village, east of Jerusalem, in attempt to prevent activists from reaching the village, which is
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
Army repels Saudi-paid mercenaries infiltration attempt near of Najran
Najran - Saba
The army and popular committees repelled the Saudi army mercenaries infiltration attempt towards al-Sawh area near of Najran, a military official told Saba on Tuesday. Dozens of SaudiRebel 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's
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
Faisal Underscores Firmness of Sudan-South Sudan Relations
Khartoum - SUNA
Assistant of President of the Republic, Dr Faisal Hassan Ibrahim has stressed strength of relations between Sudan and South Sudan State. He was briefed during meeting atVoluntary Repatriation of Sudanese Refugees from Chad
Khartoum - SUNA
The tripartite committee for the voluntary repatriation of Sudanese refugees has decided resumption of the process for repatriating voluntarily the Sudanese refugees in Chad as of early November,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 correspondent
Two civilians martyred by landmine blast in Hasaka
Hasaka - SANA
Two civilians were martyred when a landmine left behind by Daesh (ISIS) terrorists went off in the eastern countryside of Hasaka. SANA’s reporter in Hasaka said that aResidents of Damascus suburb Daria are returning to their homes
Damascus - TASS
Residents of Daria, a suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus, which was liberated from the militants two years ago, are returning to their homes. "As representatives ofMaterial damage due to terrorist attack with shells in Hama
Hama - SANA
Material damage was caused on Sunday due to a terrorist attack with shells in Jorin village in the far northwestern countryside of Hama. SANA’s reporter said that terrorist
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.
Pakistan has to make a policy to deal with non-citizens
Islamabad - APP
Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday said Pakistan cannot continue to ignore the issue of non-citizens and needs a policy to grant citizenship rights to those who have beenJudicial reforms to be introduced for speedy justice "Law Minister"
Islamabad - APP
Minister for Law and Justice Barrister Dr. Mohammad Farogh Naseem Friday announced to introduce amendments in civil law to speed up the pace of pending cases to improve theGovt focussing on expanding, upgrading rail network to provide cheap
Islamabad - APP
Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday said his government was focusing on expanding and upgrading country’s rail network to ensure provision of cheap and fast traveling facilities for the
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
