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By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AA): Hundreds of terrorists infiltrating from northern Mozambique killed at least 20 civilians in Tanzania’s southern Mtwara region, police and local media said on Thursday. More than 300 Daesh/ISIS terrorists attacked civilians and damaged properties, forcing scores of people to abandon their homes. A gruesome video circulating […]

25th Jul 2020

Iran seeks int’l probe on US fighter jets interception of civilian airline

By Syed Zafar Mehdi TEHRAN (AA): Iran has registered its protest with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) over the interception of an Iranian passenger plane by US military jets, terming it a “clear violation of international law and aviation standards” and demanding an “immediate probe.” In a statement on Friday, Iran’s Civil Aviation […]

16th Jul 2020

Yemen: 9 civilians killed in Saudi-led airstrike

By Aziz al-Ahmadi SANA’A (AA): Yemen’s Houthi group said Wednesday nine civilians were killed and seven others injured in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in the northern al-Jawf province. The group’s website, citing a security source, said two women were among the victims, while five children were injured in the attack. The source said the […]

20th Sep 2019

Afghanistan: US drone strike kills scores of Afghan civilians

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Scores of civilians were killed in a U.S. drone strike early Thursday in eastern Afghanistan close to the Tora Bora mountains. Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of the restive Nangarhar province, confirmed the strike on suspected pro-Daesh militants in the Khogyani district. Without giving more details, […]

2nd Jul 2019

Afghanistan: 10 killed as huge explosion rocks Kabul

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 10 people were killed and 65 more injured in a suicide bombing followed by a gunfight at a Defense Ministry installation in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, officials and local media confirmed. According to the Government Media Information Centre in Kabul, the attack took […]

14th Jun 2019

Afghanistan: 8 killed, incl children, in suicide attack

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least eight people were killed in a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, an official confirmed. Governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told Anadolu Agency the bombing took place in the family area of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province. He confirmed an Afghan local police mini-truck was attacked, […]

27th Mar 2019

Palestine: Israeli airstrikes damaged 500 Palestinian homes

By Mohamad Majeed GAZA (AA): A total of 500 civilian houses in the Gaza Strip were damaged by the latest Israeli airstrikes, Palestine’s public works minister said late Tuesday. “In Israeli airstrikes against Gaza, 30 civilian houses were completely destroyed and 500 houses were damaged,” Mufeed al-Hasayneh said in a statement. Many civilians have […]

25th Mar 2019

Afghans protest civilian deaths in alleged US air raid

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Carrying dead bodies, residents of Afghanistan’s Kunduz province on Saturday protested a deadly air raid in the war-ravaged country allegedly committed but denied by U.S. forces. Accusing the the Taliban of deliberately hiding among civilians and spreading propaganda to hide their losses, the U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) has […]

7th Mar 2019

Yemen: US, UK arms kill more than 200 Yemeni civilians

By Servet Gunerigok WASHINGTON (AA): The Saudi- and United Arab Emirates-led coalition has killed more than 200 people, including women and children, using U.S. and British-made weapons in Yemen, said a report Wednesday. The report, “Day of Judgment: The Role of the US and Europe in Civilian Death, Destruction, and Trauma in Yemen” was […]

25th Jan 2019

Afghanistan: US airstrike kills scores of civilians

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 16 members of a single family have been killed in an airstrike by U.S. forces in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province, officials and local media confirmed late Thursday. Helmand Governor Mohammad Yasin Khan has condemned the strike and has called for an investigation. Meanwhile, the local […]

12th Jan 2019

Palestine: Gaza woman shot dead by Israeli troops near buffer zone

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA): A Palestinian woman was killed Friday evening by Israeli army gunfire while taking part in ongoing peaceful demonstrations near the Gaza-Israel buffer zone, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. In a statement, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra identified the slain woman as Amal Mustafa Abu Sultan Al Taramisi, 43 from Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north […]

8th Jan 2019

Afghanistan: US airstrikes kill 4 civilians

By Sayed Khodaberdi Sadat KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): U.S. airstrikes killed at least 4 civilians in Afghanistan on Monday, a local said. Army regiment spokesman Mohamed Hanif Rezai told Anadolu Agency that the NATO-led U.S. drone strike targeted a Taliban camp in the Kurgan district of northern Faryab province. Rezai said 14 militants were killed […]

25th Dec 2018

Afghanistan: Attack on Govt compound kills 43

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL (AA): Gunmen stormed a government building in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday and killed 43 people in a standoff with security forces lasting some eight hours. One police officer was among those killed, while at least 20 other people were wounded, according to the Afghan Health Ministry. The […]

16th Dec 2018

Jammu & Kashmir: 7 civilians among 11 killed by Indian troops

By Zahid Rafiq SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India, (AA): At least eleven people – including seven civilians, an Indian soldier and three militants – were killed in Kashmir’s south on Saturday, police said. According to the police, the slain civilians were part of a large crowd approaching near a site of a gun battle […]

15th Dec 2018

Palestine: Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians near Ramallah

By Esat Firat RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Israeli forces killed two Palestinians on Friday near the West Bank city of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Mahmoud Yousef Nakhleh, 18, and Mohammad Nahla, 16, were killed by Israeli troops during a demonstration near the Al-Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah, said a ministry statement. […]

26th Nov 2018

Jammu & Kashmir: Indian troops kill 6 militants, 1 civilian

By Zahid Rafiq SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India (AA): Six militants and an Indian army soldier were killed in Kashmir’s south after the troops attacked a militant hideout on Sunday, police said. One teen civilian was killed by Indian forces during protests by Kashmiris. “Based on a credible input about the presence of militants […]

25th Nov 2018

Syria: Civilians killed by Syrian Govt & US led attacks

By Ashraf Musa IDLIB, Syria (AA): At least five civilians were killed in attacks by Syrian Government forces and allied militias in Syria’s northern Idlib province, according to the controversial White Helmets civil defense agency on Saturday. Meanwhile, twenty civilians, including women and children, were killed in airstrikes carried out by US-led coalition in […]

15th Oct 2018

Yemen: Saudi-led attacks kill 17 civilians in Hudaydah

By Mohamed al-Samei SANA’A (AA): At least 17 civilians were killed and 20 others injured in Saudi-led coalition attacks on minibuses in Yemen’s western strategic Hudaydah [Hodeidah] province, according to the United Nations on Sunday. “This is a horrific incident,” Lise Grande, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said in a statement. “The United […]

10th Aug 2018

Yemen: Saudi-led coalition kills 50 civilians, majority children in air attack

Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Thursday killed 50 people, including children traveling on a bus through a market, in Saada [Sa’dah] province, Yemen, according to Health official and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The coalition denied targeting civilians. In a statement it said that the air strikes targeted missile launchers used to […]

14th Jun 2018

UN blames Israel for ‘excessive’ Gaza violence

By Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA): A Turkish and Algerian-sponsored resolution blaming Israel for the recent deaths of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and urging the international community to consider protections for Palestinian civilians overwhelmingly passed in the UN General Assembly on Wednesday The resolution, backed by Turkey on behalf of the Organization of Islamic […]

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