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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and more than 11 wounded Thursday in the Somali capital in a mortar attack near the residence of the president, according to police. “We heard several explosions early morning on Thursday. When we investigated, we found out the explosions were mortar attacks,” police...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): Saudi officers have thwarted an attempt to smuggle 47 million amphetamine pills into the country. Official sources describe it as the largest ever drug trafficking operation in the kingdom. Six Syrians and two Pakistanis were arrested in a raid after the pills, concealed in a flour shipment, arrived at a dry [&helli...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – Muhammad Syed, the suspect accused in a string of Muslim killings in the US state of New Mexico, has been charged with a third murder count. Syed, 51, has been charged with the killing of Naeem Hussain, 25, who was shot to death in his vehicle in an Albuquerque parking lot […]
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Police in Nigeria have confirmed the abduction of the commissioner for information, culture and tourism of the country’s central Nasarawa state. In a statement, Ramhan Nansel, the police spokesman, said that Lawal was abducted by gunmen on Monday evening. “On Monday … the attention of policemen on routine patrol was ...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – The northwestern Muslim-dominated Zamfara State in Nigeria has approved a death penalty law for anyone found guilty of banditry, cattle rustling, cultism, or serving as an informant for bandits, an official said on Tuesday. The state government also restricted motorcycle movement from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. and directed ho...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Nigerian security forces rescued 35 people Sunday who had been taken hostage by armed gangs in Kaduna state. Kaduna Commissioner for Internal Security and Internal Affairs Samuel Aruwan said operations against gunmen were carried out in the Sabon Gero region of the state. Aruwan said 35 children and women were rescu...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Four people were injured when a wanted man blew himself up as authorities attempted to arrest him in Saudi Arabia’s western city of Jeddah, security authorities said on Friday. “One of the wanted men (Abdullah Al-Bakri) was tracked on Wednesday evening, and upon initiating the arrest procedures, he took the initiative to ...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran on Wednesday seized a vessel in the Persian Gulf, accusing it of carrying smuggled fuel, and detained its 12-member crew. Mujtaba Kahramani, a senior judiciary official in the southern Hormozgan province, said a ship “loaded with smuggled fuel” was seized near Qeshm, an island in the Strait of Hormuz. The operation […...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two people, including a soldier, were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region on Wednesday evening, an official said. The attack took place near a popular hotel close to the Hirshabele state presidency in the town of Jowhar. Roble Ahmed, spokesman for Hirshabele [&hel...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Two Rohingya refugee leaders were killed in a crammed Bangladeshi refugee camp, causing panic among the persecuted people, a senior police official said on Wednesday. Abu Taleb (40), a community head at a camp in the Ukhia sub-district, and Syed Hossain (35), another community leader of the same camp in the […]...
