Russian Children’s Rights Ombudswoman Maria Lvova-Belova presented an award Tuesday to a 15-year-old Muslim boy who saved more than 100 people during last week’s shooting at a concert hall. At least 139 people were killed and more than 180 injured on March 22 when gunmen opened fire at Crocus City Hall in the city of […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Islam Khalilov, a 15-year-old Muslim boy who saved over a hundred people during Friday’s violent attack on the Crocus City concert hall in the Moscow region, says the attack “was a harrowing experience, especially amid a panicked crowd, and gunfire.” Recounting the events in an interview, the teenager described ...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Four people were sentenced to death and two given life imprisonment over the assassination of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid in 2013, the deputy public prosecutor of the anti-terrorist judicial division said Wednesday. A total of 23 people had been charged in connection with the murder of leftist Belaid. Se...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak has said that his country has “no slightest connection” with the attack in Moscow. “Any attempts to connect Ukraine to the terrorist attack are absolutely untenable. Ukraine has not the slightest connection to this incident,” Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on X. Ukrain...
MOSCOW (AA) – The death toll from a shooting at the Crocus City concert hall in Moscow region rose to 133 as more bodies were pulled from under the debris, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Saturday. The committee said in a statement that the terrorist attack took the lives of three children, noting that […]
Washington, United States – AFP The White House said on Friday it had no initial indication that Ukraine, which is fighting an invasion by Russia, was involved in a “terrible” attack on a concert hall in Moscow. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the United States was still gathering information after Russian...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Defense Ministry announced Sunday that three personnel from its armed forces and an officer from the Bahrain Defense Force were killed with two others wounded in a terror attack in Somalia. The attack at a military camp in the Somali capital of Mogadishu was carried out […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – At least four police officers have been killed by ISIS in West Africa Province (ISWAP) in northeastern Nigeria in an attack on a police station, according to media reports. Members of the militant group attacked the station in the Nganzai region in the Borno state where in addition to the slain […]
ISTANBUL (AA) — Seventeen suspected members of the ISIS group linked to a shooting at a Catholic church in Istanbul were apprehended in an operation on Saturday, said Turkish security sources. Simultaneous operations, centered in Istanbul, were carried out by security forces to disrupt the activities of the suspects and prevent potential viole...
Islamabad, Pakistan – – AFP Pakistan and Iran’s cross-border air raids this week targeting militants on each other’s soil mark an unprecedented flare-up at a time when the region is already a tinderbox of tensions, analysts say. “This kind of attack has never been done by either side,” said Karachi Universit...