CAIRO (Reuters) - An Islamic State militant was responsible for a knife attack at a Marseille train station in southern France that killed two women on Sunday, the group’s Amaq news agency said. Reporting by Mostafa Hashem; Writing by Eric Knecht; Editing by Dale Hudson
A gunman killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 200 at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, raining down rapid fire from the 32nd floor of a hotel for several minutes before he was shot dead by police. The death toll, which police emphasized was...
(Eqtsad)- In a war-torn country, the capital remained the least affected region during the sev en year- war in Syria, making it a haven for local commercial investment. Private education is one of the lucrative business ventures that businessmen are still using to steal money from...
Reuters) - Spanish riot police burst into polling stations across Catalonia on Sunday, seizing ballot boxes and voting papers to prevent a banned referendum on a split from Spain in a show of force aimed at asserting Madrid’s authority over the rebel region. Police hit people with...
Germany welcomed U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s announcement that he was “probing” opportunities for dialogue with North Korea about its nuclear weapons program and called for Washington to take a similar step with Iran. German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel also warned in a...
COX‘S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - The World Food Program (WFP) appealed on Sunday for 75 million dollars in emergency aid over the next six months to help alleviate the suffering of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar. Since August 25th, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya...
(Reuters) - French soldiers shot and a killed a man on Sunday after he stabbed to death two women at Marseille’s main train station, the French interior ministry said, in what police sources called a “likely terrorist act”. Three police sources said the suspect had shouted “Allahu...
(Reuters) - Yemen’s Houthi forces shot down a U.S. surveillance drone in the capital Sanaa on Sunday, the Houthi-controlled state news agency SABA reported. The Houthi movement and its ally former president Ali Abdullah Saleh control much of northern Yemen, including Sanaa, and are...
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday that Islamic State fighters had seized control of the town of al-Qaryatayn in Homs province, part of a wider counterattack by the jihadists as they resist a fierce offensive in eastern Syria. There was no comment from the Syrian...
By Maya Gebeily (AFP)- Just after sunrise outside Syria's Raqa, dozens of Islamic State group jihadists donned Kurdish military uniforms, piled into cars with weapons, and broke back into a district they lost control of months ago. The raid was the latest evidence that IS,...
Britain’s ambassador to Myanmar was forced to interrupt Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier this year as he tried to recite a nostalgic colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling in public during a visit to the country’s most famous Buddhist site. Johnson, who helped lead the Leave...
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Thousands of Catalans gathered at designated polling stations on Sunday morning as they sought to defy Spanish authorities by voting in a banned independence referendum that has raised fears of unrest in the wealthy northeastern region. The referendum, declared...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State on Saturday has executed three prominent figures of al-Sheitaat tribe who had been ambushed by ISIS after a support visit to their allied tribesmen in Deir Ezzor province. The radical group showed no mercy with key tribe in eastern Syria and Iraq after...
(Eqtsad)-Sorcery business is considered one of the darkest and most secret activities in Syrian society. New investigation and research into this phenomena shows the big indulgence of many Syrians, particularly women, in this disgraceful and infamous activity. Tens of stories about...
(Reuters) - The powerful Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Saturday that an Iraqi Kurdish independence vote marked a first step toward the partition of the Middle East, warning that this would lead to “internal wars” and must be opposed. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Iran-backed...
(Reuters) - Same-sex couples will marry in Germany for the first time on Sunday, when some civil registry offices will open specially to celebrate the coming into force of a marriage law that parliament passed in June. Around a dozen same-sex couples are expected to marry in Berlin on...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime army and its allies seized control of nine positions at Syria’s border with Jordan, expanding their control at the southern frontier, Reuters said on Saturday. The captured border positions were located to the southeast of Damascus, the report said, adding...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people, including newborn, have been killed in regime artillery shelling on Talbiseh town in central Homs province, local reporter said on Saturday. The rebel-held northern countryside of Homs has endured to heavy aerial and ground bombardment despite the...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Iraqi Kurdish authorities would pay the price for an independence referendum which was widely opposed by foreign powers. Iraq’s Kurds overwhelmingly backed independence in Monday’s referendum, defying neighboring...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Six Egyptian men arrested for “promoting sexual deviancy” and “debauchery” on social media will be subjected to anal examinations ahead of their Oct. 1 trial, Amnesty International said on Saturday. Their arrest is part of a wider crackdown against homosexuality that...
