KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – The families of thousands of Afghans killed in the US’ 20-year military intervention in the country are now seeking justice for their deceased loved ones. The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by US-led coalition forces, launched on the grounds that the ruling Taliban administration had harboured the leader of ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The Bangladesh border force confiscated narcotics consignments worth over 130 million Bangladeshi taka (approximately $1.3 million) along the border with Myanmar on Saturday, officials said. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered the drugs in two separate searches in Teknaf area on the southeast coast of Cox...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has slammed Myanmar’s military junta for refusing to cooperate in regional and international efforts to return Rohingya refugees peacefully. She made the accusation during a media briefing in Dhaka after her recent visit to the US, where she attended the United Nati...
Johi, Pakistan (AFP): His head haloed by a whirlwind of mosquitoes, Aamir Hussain stands on the roof of his home in southern Pakistan surveying the fetid floodwaters all around. Four months after the start of record monsoon rains linked to climate change, the standing water has curdled into a pestilent soup breeding malaria, cholera and [&hell...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AA) – Kazakhstan’s president has announced his candidacy for the newly formed “People’s Coalition” in the country’s upcoming early presidential election next month. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was nominated to run in the election, slated for Nov. 20, as the candidate of the coalition, formed of...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US military has claimed that it killed an ISIS official during an operation in northern Syria. “Last night, U.S. Central Command forces conducted a helicopter raid in northeast Syria, near the village of Qamishli, targeting Rakkan Wahid al-Shammri, an ISIS official known to facilitate the smuggling of weapons ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi has urged the leaders of the government and opposition parties to end the country’s ongoing political crisis and hold new elections. Addressing a joint session of the lower and upper chambers in Islamabad, the president, who is a member of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s part...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least 11 people were killed and 12 wounded as a passenger bus collided with a truck in southern Sindh province of Pakistan on Thursday. According to police, the passenger bus was traveling on Indus Highway from Bahawalpur to Karachi, the port city of Pakistan. “All the injured and bodies have been […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday said that a maritime border demarcation deal with Israel is close to completion. Following his meeting with Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rahi, he said that the deal will help prevent “a definite war in the region.” Lebanon and Israel have been locked in a dispute [&...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Two children were killed and a third injured in a landmine explosion in Yemen’s central Marib province, according to a local observatory on Thursday. “Two children, Saqr Mohammed Sinan, 8, and Ka’ed Abdullah Khaymah, 12, were killed by a mine explosion in the Muhazar district in Marib,” the Yemeni Mine Observatory […...
