KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Tribal violence has flared in Kassala city in eastern Sudan amid arson attacks on government premises and shops. Armed men from Hausa tribe attacked and set fire to government buildings, marketplaces and shops in the city, eye witnesses said. The violence grew out of tension between Hausa and Birta tribes in […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Police in Nigeria’s southern state of Anambra killed 10 bandits during an operation against armed gangs, an official said Sunday. Ammunition belonging to the bandits was also seized, said Ikenga Tochukwu, the spokesman for the Anambra state police. A long-running conflict between cattle herders and farmers in Taraba...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and more than 14 others wounded when a suicide car bomb blast rocked the town of Jowhar in Somalia on Sunday, officials said. A police officer in Jowhar told Anadolu Agency that it was a suicide car bomb attack that targeted Nur Dob hotel, killing […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Multiple casualties were reported in southern Somalia on Sunday as a powerful explosion struck a popular hotel frequented by regional authorities, officials said. The blast was the result of a car bomb that targeted Nur Dob hotel in the town of Jowhar, wounding several people including local authorities, among t...
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – (AFP): US President Joe Biden has said that he confronted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over attacks on dissidents during his visit to Saudi Arabia. Prince Mohammed bin Salman drew global outrage for the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate, an operation US i...
ANKARA (AA) – A mass grave containing the ashes of thousands of people has been discovered near a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, according to the country’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). The remains were unearthed near the Soldau concentration camp, now known as Dzialdowo, which is located north of the capital Warsaw...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – A Swedish court has sentenced a former Iranian official to life in prison over alleged crimes dating back to the late 1980s, in a high-profile case that fueled tensions between Iran and Sweden in recent months. Hamid Nouri, a 61-year-old former Iranian judiciary official, was convicted by a court in Stockholm [&hellip...
Abuja, Nigeria – (AFP) Suspected Boko Haram fighters using guns and explosives blasted their way into a prison near Nigeria’s capital, freeing dozens of their jailed comrades and hundreds of other inmates, the government said on Wednesday. Tuesday night’s brazen attack on the outskirts of Abuja came just hours after an ambush...
KILIS, Türkiye (AA) – A suspected ISIS member has been nabbed in Türkiye’s southeastern province of Kilis bordering Syria in connection with the killing of two Turkish soldiers in 2015. According to the provincial gendarmerie command, the suspect, identifed as I I (identity withheld), was arrested in an operation in the Oncupinar neighbo...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A young Palestinian was shot dead Wednesday by Israel in the occupied West Bank, according to local media. Rafek Riyad Ghannam, 20, was killed by Israeli forces during a military raid in the town of Jaba, south of Jenin, the official Palestine TV reported. Eyewitnesses said Israeli forces raided a number […]
