Gunmen have launched an attack on a police station in the Zahedan city of Iran, sparking an armed clash between the two sides, a media report said on Saturday. IRNA quoted Mahdi Shams, the attorney general of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province, as saying the ongoing assault was launched in the morning. Shams said More
A gunman and a security guard have been killed in an exchange of fire outside the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, according to a media report on Thursday. “At 6:45 pm (1545 GMT), a man stopped in a car in front of the consulate building and got out with a weapon in his hand,” More
Security forces on Monday once again arrested Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) senior leader and lawmaker Ali Wazir in North Waziristan. Idris Pashteen, a friend of PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen, wrote on his Twitter that Ali Wazir was ‘abducted’ from North Waziristan. He added the security forces took Ali Wazir to the Spilga military base. According More
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister Faisal Bin Farhan has arrived in Tehran seven years after his country broke ties with Iran. Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed in March, in a deal brokered by China, to end a diplomatic rift and re-establish relations following years of hostility that had endangered regional stability including in Yemen, Syria and More
Three children and a baby were reported to have been found alive more than two weeks after a plane crashed with them on board in the Colombian Amazon jungle, according to a media report on Friday. Aljazeera reported that Colombian authorities had deployed more than 100 soldiers with sniffer dogs to search for the children More
