Five female security staff at Kandahar airport have been killed as they were travelling to work, officials say. The women – who were in charge of searching female travellers – and their minivan driver died when two gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on their bus. No-one has admitted the attack. Women in Afghanistan are often…
Turkey is investigating 10,000 people on suspicion of using social media to support terrorism, its interior ministry has said. They are accused of insulting government officials online, or what the ministry called “terror-related activity” on the internet. The ministry said the fight against terrorism was being carried out “with determination” on social media.…
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi newspaper is reporting that an Egyptian man has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges of attempting to disturb public order, violating the kingdom’s labor laws and communicating with a sorcerer to bewitch his employer. The Egyptian, who was unnamed in the Okaz report, was accused of…
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the gates of a local government headquarters in Somalia while another bomber targeted a nearby marketplace, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 30 others, police said Sunday. Abdisalam Yusuf with the police said one bomber rammed the car into a checkpoint…
A media bus at the Olympics in Rio was vandalized on Tuesday night, possibly by gunfire, witnesses claim. USA Today reports that a passenger heard gunshots striking one of the buses used to transport media to and from Olympic events. The bus was reportedly returning from the women’s basketball venue in Deodoro, when passengers said that they…
A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 70 people and wounded more than 100 on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta, and Islamic State claimed responsibility. The bomber struck as a crowd of mostly lawyers and journalists crammed into the emergency department to accompany…
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