At least 32 people have been killed and 63 others injured as a result of an armed attack on the coast of Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, the Voice of America reported on Sunday. The assault took place on Friday night on a beach frequented by businessmen and government officials, the report said. It added 32 civilians More
Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Ali Wazir has once again been arrested by Islamabad police. Following his arrest in connection with an accident on Saturday, he was later produced before an anti-terrorism court (ATC) that remanded him in police custody for six days. Two motorbikes collided before one of them hit the vehicle of the More
Hezbollah has fired at least 50 rockets at northern Israel, a media report said on Sunday. The group fired the projectiles from Lebanon towards upper Galilee overnight, Sky News reported. In a statement claiming responsibility for the strike, Hezbollah made clear it was not in response to the assassination of their senior commander. The outfit More
Two policemen have been killed in a gun attack in the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, media reports said on Saturday. Unidentified assailants targeted police officers who were escorting a vehicle carrying three judges on Friday. The attack resulted in the deaths of the two policemen, although the judges escaped unharmed, according to More
Sudan’s military leader Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan has survived a drone attack, a media report said on Thursday. However, at least five people were killed and several others wounded in the attack, the BBC reported. Sudan army spokesman Nabil Abdallah was quoted as saying: “Two drones struck an army graduation ceremony, killing five people at a More
At an emergency meeting after the killing of the Hamas leader, the UN Security Council has called for concrete action to prevent the outbreak of an all-out war in the Middle East. Iran’s Permanent Representative Amir Saeid Iravani denounced the “cowardly assassination by Israel” of Ismail Haniyeh in a strike on Tuesday morning. The More
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered a direct strike on Israel in retaliation for the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, a media report said on Thursday. The New York Times quoted three Iranian officials as saying: “Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has issued an order for Iran to strike More
At least two police personnel and a civilian were killed in a militant attack on a checkpoint in the Khyber district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday. The assault occurred in Charwazagai area on the Pak-Afghan highway near Landikotal Bazaar, District Police Officer (DPO) Saleem Abbas said. The dead included Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Alamzeb, More
Unidentified gunmen have opened fire on a bulletproof vehicle carrying local staff of the United Nations in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a media report said on Wednesday. The Associated Press quoted a senior police officer as saying: “The attack on the vehicle of the United Nations Office for Project Services happened in Dera Ismail Khan More
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an attack on his residence in Tehran on Wednesday, the Palestinian group announced. Hamas blamed Israel for assassinating its political chief along with a bodyguard in the strike on the building where they were staying. Haniyeh was in Iran’s capital to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s President More
