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The number of people killed in extremist attacks declined for the second successive year in 2016 but more countries were affected, according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) released Wednesday. (AFP) — Its report, produced by Australia’s Institute for Economics & Peace, found there were 25,673 deaths last year due to …

Turkey on Wednesday condemned as “an extremely grave revelation” the potential escape of hundreds of terrorists from the Syrian city of Raqqa, saying it underscored the perils of Washington’s alliance with Kurdish fighters. (AFP) — The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said over 3,000 civilians had left Raqqa on October 14 …

The Israeli military has blown up the family home of a Palestinian man, who was killed earlier by its forces over an alleged stabbing attack. Amateur footage surfaced online on Tuesday, showing Israeli forces detonating the house, located in the occupied West Bank village of Beit Surik. In a similar …

Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari (Photo by AFP) Syria’s ambassador to the UN has slammed an anti-Damascus draft resolution recently proposed by Saudi Arabia and its allies, saying it reveals Saudi “hysteria” caused by the failure of its Wahhabi terror plot in the war-torn country. Bashar Ja’afari …

At least eight militants have been shot dead and two Pakistani soldiers killed in a skirmish along the restive border with Afghanistan, the Pakistani army says. The military said in a statement on Monday that fierce clashes took place along the border in Bajaur in the tribal districts of northwest …

At least four people, including a senior police official, have been killed in a bomb attack in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Baluchistan, officials say. The deadly assault occurred in the provincial capital of Quetta on Thursday, when an assailant detonated an explosive vest as a police vehicle was passing …

Más de 15 millones de musulmanes celebraron el Arbain del Imam Husain, el día que marca el día 40 del martirio del Tercer Imam de los musulmanes shiíes, el Imam Husain (P). Ese día se celebra una gran concentración en la ciudad santa iraquí de Kerbala. Ésta es una de …

Alwaght- Millions of people will die in Yemen, in what will be the world’s worst famine crisis in decades, unless Saudi-led aggressors end devastating blockade the United Nations has warned. The Saudi-led military alliance engaged in an illegal aggression on Yemen tightened its air, land and sea blockade of the …

El Ejército sirio, Hezbolá y sus aliados han liberado completamente la ciudad de Albu Kamal, junto a la frontera iraquí, que era el último bastión del Daesh en Siria. Los medios militares informaron que el Ejército sirio y sus aliados rodearon el miércoles por la mañana toda la ciudad de …

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed the fresh hostile stances the Saudi regime has taken against Tehran, saying he wonders how the kingdom could show hostility towards so many of its neighbors and the regional countries. Addressing a cabinet session of Wednesday morning, President Rouhani criticized the Saudi …