https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistan-shooting-bus-attack-balochistan-gwadar-karachi-death-toll-a8875581.html Gunmen killed 14 people after ambushing a passenger bus in southwestern Pakistan, local authorities have said. Around 35 people are thought to have been travelling from Karachi to Gwadarwhen armed men stopped the vehicle, checked the identities of those on board and then began shooting people selectively. It is not yet clear why specific passengers were targeted, said officials in Balochistan province, where the attack took place…. Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kabul-explosion-gunmen-telecommunications-ministry-afghanistan-a8878956.html At least seven people were killed during an attack on Afghanistan’s Ministry of Communications on Saturday. An explosion hit the centre of Kabul as attackers tried to storm the multi-storey building which houses the government department. The blast was from a suicide bomb, which was detonated at the building’s entrance, shortly after midday. Television images showed people fleeing after gunfire and explosions were… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-death-penalty-mass-executions-terrorism-capital-punishment-human-rights-a8882891.html Saudi Arabia executed 37 people for terror offences on Tuesday, the country’s interior minister said, in one of the largest mass executions in recent years. Human Rights Watch described the punishment as “grotesque,” and said the news represented a “day we have feared.” The country’s state news agency said the Saudi nationals were guilty of “adopting extremist terrorist ideologies and… Read more »
ISIS is losing ground in Syria and Iraq. In Mosul, the Iraqi Army seems to be soundly defeating its insurgent opponents. The liberation of cities such as Palmyra, Aleppo, and Al-Bab in Syria, and Mosul and Fallujah in Iraq, show the terrorist group is on the desperate defense. The Iraqi Army’s push into Mosul supported by US and coalition airstrikes,… Read more »
(THE INDEPENDENT): One of the largest ever lawsuits relating to the September 11 terror attacks has been filed against Saudi Arabia in New York. Families of 850 victims who died and the 1,500 injured, are suing the Middle Eastern country’s government, accusing it of providing material and financial assistance to al Qaeda in the years leading up to worst ever terrorist attack on US… Read more »
Al Jazeera: Bahrain says it has uncovered an international “terrorist cell” comprising 54 members, with police arresting 25 suspects in the Gulf country. The group includes 12 based in Iran and Iraq, one in Germany and 41 – including 10 who escaped prison in January – from Bahrain, the information ministry said on Friday in a statement sent to Al Jazeera. The statement did… Read more »
(BBC): US special forces operatives carried out a raid in central Yemen on Sunday, targeting the house of a suspected leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). US officials have confirmed that one Navy commando died and three more service members were wounded, and say 14 al-Qaeda fighters were killed. The US operatives targeted the house of a suspected senior… Read more »
