Authorities in Bangladesh kicked off on Sunday an immunization campaign among Muslim Rohingya refugees as an aid group warned that many could die due to a lack of food, shelter and water. The campaign started in a crowded border camp as the country struggled to take in more than 400,000 Rohingya, wh
A car bomb killed one person and injured ten in Kirkuk, an Iraqi oil city where local Kurdish authorities plan to hold a referendum on independence despite opposition from the central government and the region’s non-Kurdish population. According to Reuters, the blast targeted a liquor store, a
The Yemeni Government praised today the role played by the Arab coalition countries to protect Yemen from the Iranian project, said the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Ben Dagher said in a meeting with local authority leaders and the security and military committee in Hadramout
Bangladesh said it will provide some 14,000 new shelters to house Rohingya Muslim refugees left astray in fields and on hills, an official said Saturday. “The government has decided to build 14,000 shelters for some 400,000 Rohingya,” Bangladesh’s disaster management secretary Shah
The Lebanese army tightened security around the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh on Saturday less than 24 hours after the arrest of a cell led by an Egyptian national hiding in the shantytown that lies near the city of Sidon. The state-run National News Agency said that all incoming and out
British police hunting those behind a homemade bomb attack, which injured 30 people on a London underground train on Friday, said they had arrested an 18-year-old man in a “significant” move. “We have made a significant arrest in our investigation this morning,” Neil Basu, Senior Nationa
Iraqi armed forces said on Saturday they had started an offensive to dislodge ISIS militants from an area on the border with Syria by attacking a desert terrorist outpost. The offensive in Anbar province’s Akashat region south of the Euphrates is meant to pave the way for the seizure of milita
A Romanian soldier from a NATO-led mission was killed and two others wounded in southern Afghanistan on Friday in a Taliban claimed suicide attack, the Romanian defense ministry said. The soldiers were traveling in a convoy in the Kandahar region, the ministry said in a statement. The assailant drov
North Korea said Saturday it aims to reach military “equilibrium” with the United States which earlier hinted its patience for diplomacy is running out after Pyongyang fired a missile over Japan for the second time in under a month. North Korea successfully fired a Hwasong-12 intermediat
The US space agency NASA received a final signal from its Cassini spacecraft on Friday as it ended a groundbreaking, 13-year Saturn mission. “This morning a lone explorer – a machine made by human-kind – finished its mission 900 million miles away,” Cassini project manager Earl Maize sai
US-backed Syrian opposition factions will not let forces backing the regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad cross the Euphrates River in their bid to recover eastern Syria, their commander said. Syrian opposition commander Abu Khawla said a civilian administration would be set up to run areas of Deir al-
Hunger is on the rise again thanks in part to climate change aggravating severe weather and conflicts in the world, the United Nations reported on Friday. Some 815 million people, or 11 percent of the world’s population, were chronically undernourished in 2016, according to the annual UN repor
Passengers were seen badly burned and covered in blood after what police described as a “terrorist incident” caused by the explosion of an improvised device at a London underground train station on Friday. Witnesses reported seeing passengers with facial burns and hair coming off at Pars
A knife-wielding man attacked a soldier on a counter-terrorism patrol in central Paris on Friday but did not cause any injuries, police said. The attacker lunged at the soldier around 6.30 am at the Chatelet station, a busy central hub for the metro and the suburban RER rail network that carries com
Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have denied any links to global terror groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) wrote on Twitter that “it is necessary to make it clear that it has no links with al-Qaeda, ISIS … or any transnational terrorist group.” “We do not we
Regional tensions deepened on Friday after North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan’s northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean, a move that came following Pyongyang’s recent test of its most powerful nuclear bomb. The missile flew over Japan and landed in the Pacific abou
Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi stressed that the coup militias in his country are targeting the neighboring countries and carrying out foreign agendas against Yemen and its people. The President made these statements during his meeting here today with the Ambassadors of Finland, Germany, Net
The United States must consider the full threat it says Iran poses to the Middle East when formulating its new policy toward Tehran, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday, adding that Iran had breached the spirit of a 2015 nuclear deal. Tillerson was outspoken in his criticism of Iran
Gunmen and suicide car bombers on Thursday killed at least 52 people including Iranians near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, in an attack claimed by terror group ISIS. The attackers struck at midday, opening fire on a restaurant before getting into a car and blowing themselves up at a nearby s
Russia on Thursday began major joint military exercises with Belarus along the European Union’s eastern flank, the biggest Russian war games since 2013. Named Zapad-2017 (West-2017), the maneuvers, scheduled to last until September 20, are taking place on the territory of Moscow’s closes
