Turkey has warned Russian authorities to avoid confrontation with the Turkish military in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, as the country is retaliating against the Bashar Assad regime for a recent attack that killed four soldiers [ More … ]
The body of Mariam, the first female political prisoner to die in prison due to deliberate medical negligence, is still kept at the Morgue as all her family members are either killed or in prison [ More … ]
More than 300 Iraqis have been killed, thousands injured since protests broke out last month Amnesty International has called on Iraqi authorities to rein in security forces, amid anti-government protests that left scores dead. The human [ More … ]
Ten people have been killed in Basra as Iraqi security forces continued their repression of anti-corruption protests, with Iraq’s foremost Shia cleric saying the government must meet protesters’ demands. Police and medical sources say at [ More … ]
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi targeted in US raid in Syria. Trump says Baghdadi died whimpering and screaming US President Donald Trump has confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. He blew himself up [ More … ]
TheIraqi protesters who took to the streets on Thursday for the third time this week despite a curfew restricting movement in the capital and several southern cities were faced by fire from security forces. Iraqi [ More … ]
Sadly, the ill treatment Mohamed Morsi received in jail was not unusual. Also, Egyptian officials reportedly threatened Morsi days before death, according to MEE. When Egypt’s first and only elected president, Mohamed Morsi, dropped dead in [ More … ]
Egyptian Army says it also confiscated firearms and improvised explosive devices from fighters in the restive peninsula. Forty-seven fighters and five Egyptian soldiers were killed during Egypt’s ongoing military offensive in the restive Sinai Peninsula, [ More … ]
Source inside Saleh’s party claim Houthis ‘executed and maimed’ former president, while Houthis say he was killed in ambush outside capital The former president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was killed on Monday in a [ More … ]
Saudi-led airstrike has killed civilians, including women and children, in capital, Sanaa. At least 14 people, including women and children, have been killed in an airstrike on Friday in a residential neighbourhood of Yemen’s capital [ More … ]
A Palestinian security officer in Gaza was killed and another was injured when an unidentified assailant blew himself up near the Egypt-Gaza border at dawn on Thursday. Spokesperson of the Gaza Ministry of Interior and [ More … ]
Egyptians demand answers after a Coptic teenager was found dead, bearing alleged signs of torture after being detained for two days. Shocking images showing the body of an Egyptian teenager with extreme “torture marks” have [ More … ]
Four Somali soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb and two others were injured yesterday, according to reports in Al Jazeera. The improvised explosive device exploded in the town of Baidoa, south west of the [ More … ]
Two police officers on Saturday evening were killed by unknown gunmen who carjacked an ambulance coming from Central Darfur state capital, Zalingei. The government of Central Darfur said in a statement on Sunday that gunmen [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi orders campaign to recover state-owned land that has been encroached upon One person was killed and 50 people were injured in clashes on Sunday as security forces tried to evict squatters [ More … ]
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