Suicide bomber kills at least 70 at Pakistan hospital
An injured man outside the hospital in Quetta, August 8A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 70 people and wounded more than a hundred on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta, according to officials in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.The bomber struck as a crowd of mostly lawyers and...Lebanese Olympics team refuses to share bus with Israeli team
RIO - The Lebanese delegation to the Rio Olympics refused to let Israeli athletes board a bus the two teams were meant to take to the opening ceremony on Friday. According to Isreali coach Udi Gal, when the Lebanese team realized that it was slated to share the bus with Israeli athletes, it asked the driver to shut the...Israel legalizes imprisonment of ‘child terrorists’ as young as 12
JERUSALEM — Israeli lawmakers approved jailing children as young as 12 convicted of "terrorist offenses" in the wake of repeated attacks by young Palestinians, the parliament said on Wednesday. "The 'Youth Bill,' which will allow the authorities to imprison a minor convicted of serious crimes such as murder, attempted murder or...Muslim woman detained at UK airport for reading Syrian art book
UNITED KINGDOM - A Muslim NHS worker was detained at a UK airport and questioned under terror laws after a cabin crew member spotted her reading a Syrian culture book on board her honeymoon flight. Faizah Shaheen, who helps prevent teenage mental health patients from becoming radicalized, was returning...Egyptian army says it killed ISIS leader in Sinai
CAIRO — Egypt's military said on Thursday it had killed Abu Duaa al-Ansari, whom it identified as the leader of the Sinai branch of ISIS, in a series of air strikes near the town of Arish. It said on its Facebook page that the strikes had also killed 45 other ISIS militants and destroyed arms and ammunition stores used by the...Hezbollah says partition a possible outcome in Iraq and Syria
BEIRUT — Hezbollah said the partition of Iraq and Syria was a possible outcome of sectarian fighting across the region and there was no prospect of any end to the war in Syria until after November's U.S. presidential election. Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy leader of the Iran-backed group, whose forces are fighting alongside President...U.N. report on Yemen: Saudis, Houthis committed violations
UNITED NATIONS — Yemen's Houthi rebels used civilians as human shields, and ISIS militants in the country received an influx of cash, according to a confidential report by United Nations experts monitoring sanctions on Yemen. The 105-page report to the U.N. Security Council, seen by Reuters on Thursday, also said a military...U.S. strikes easing advance against ISIS in Sirte
TRIPOLI — U.S. air strikes are easing the passage of Libyan forces as they seek to clear ISIS from the militant group's former North African stronghold of Sirte, a senior field commander said on Wednesday. Mohamed Darat said the first strikes, which took place on Monday, had helped Libyan brigades under his command secure the Dollar...Houthi-led bloc says to set up council to govern Yemen
SANAA — Yemen's dominant Houthi group and its allies in ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh's party said on Thursday they would establish a governing council to run the country, in a move the United Nations said threatens peace talks in Kuwait.Senior officials in President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government said the move...Netanyahu thanks Sisi for his “leadership”
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday praised warming relations with Egypt and its president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted a democratically elected government seen as hostile to ties between the neighbors.Egypt was the first of a handful of Arab countries to recognize Israel, in 1979, but the...Syria’s Nusra Front says ending link to al-Qaeda
DAMASCUS — Al-Qaeda's powerful Syrian branch announced on Thursday it was ending its relationship with the global terrorist network founded by Osama bin Laden and changing its name, to remove what it called a pretext used by world powers to attack Syrians.In the first known video statement ever to show his face, the leader...Syrian army texts residents to leave rebel-held Aleppo neighborhoods
The Syrian army sent text messages to residents of rebel-held eastern Aleppo saying it will grant safe passage to people wishing to leave the area, which has been effectively besieged by pro-government forces, state media said on Tuesday.The army called on residents to push "mercenaries" out of the city -- a reference to rebel...Elderly priest killed in French church, attack claimed by ISIS
Father Jacques Hamel, who was killed in the attackPARIS — A priest in his mid-80s was killed with a knife and another hostage seriously wounded on Tuesday in an attack on a church in northern France carried out by assailants linked to ISIS.Both attackers were shot dead by French police. Five people in all had been taken hostage. A...Knife attacker in Japan kills 19 in their sleep at disabled center
The facility after the attack, July 26SAGAMIHARA, Japan — A knife-wielding man broke into a facility for the disabled in a small town near Tokyo early on Tuesday and killed 19 patients as they slept, authorities said, Japan's worst mass killing in decades.At least 25 other residents were wounded in the attack at the Tsukui Yamayuri-En...Former Saudi general visits Israel, meets officials
Eshki and members of his delegation, meeting with Israeli Knesset members, July 22TEL AVIV — Retired Saudi General Anwar Eshki visited Israel last week and met with foreign ministry officials, including Director-General Dore Gold Yoav Mordechai, Haaretz reported. Eshki, who headed a delegation of Saudi academics and business......
Muslim woman befriends frightened passenger
A Muslim woman took to Facebook to describe her encounter with a woman who was too terrified to sit beside her on a plane after she texted the world ‘Allah’. Jiva Akbor’s post touched thousands on social media as Akbor described how she befriended a woman who complained to the air hostesses about her text...
German-Iranian gunman kills at least nine in Munich shopping mall
July 23rd, 20160 Special forces in Munich after the attackMUNICH — A 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman who apparently acted alone opened fire in a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening, killing at least nine people in the third attack against civilians in Western Europe in eight days.The pistol-wielding attacker, identified by Munich Police......
Saudia Arabia denies reports that it banned Pokemon-Go for being ‘haram’
Saudi Arabia denied on Thursday that the conservative kingdom's top clerical body had renewed a 15-year-old edict declaring that the Pokemon game was un-Islamic.Saudi media reports said on Wednesday the General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Religious Scholars had revived a 2001 decree against a Pokemon card...Pakistan to pass law against ‘honor’ killings in weeks
Pakistan's ruling party plans to pass long-delayed legislation against "honor killings" within weeks in the wake of the high-profile murder of an outspoken social media star, the daughter of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday.The bill will go before a parliamentary committee as early as Thursday, said Maryam Nawaz...
Syrian opposition calls for suspension of U.S.-led air strikes after civilian casualties
July 21st, 20160 The head of the opposition Syrian National Coalition called for a suspension of the U.S.-led air campaign against ISIS in Syria while reports of dozens of civilian deaths from air strikes around the northern city of Manbij are investigated.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 56 civilians were killed in...Erdogan declares state of emergency after coup bid
ANKARA — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared a state of emergency on Wednesday as he widened a crackdown against thousands of members of the security forces, judiciary, civil service and academia after a failed military coup.Erdogan said the state of emergency, which would last three months, would allow his government......
“Moderate” Syrian rebels behead child in gruesome video
Militants take a photo of a boy before beheading himDAMASCUS — A Syrian rebel group that has received U.S. military backing said it is investigating the beheading of a child in Aleppo after video footage circulated showing the boy being killed by a man who activists identified as a member of the rebel group.Images of a fighter cutting...
U.S.-led airstrikes kill dozens of civilians in Syria
July 20th, 20160 SDF ForcesAt least 56 civilians were killed on Tuesday in air strikes north of the besieged ISIS-held city of Manbij in northern Syria, and residents said they believed the attack was carried out by U.S.-led warplanes, a monitoring group said.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included 11 children, and......
Turkey arrests thousands in post-coup purge
July 18th, 20160 Erdogan at the funeral of a victim killed in the thwarted coup, July 17ANKARA — Turkey purged its police on Monday after rounding up thousands of soldiers in the wake of a failed military coup, and said it could reconsider its friendship with the United States unless Washington hands over a cleric Ankara blames for the putsch.Nearly...
Turkish coup attempt crumbles
July 16th, 20160 People stand on an army tank at Ataturk airport in IstanbulISTANBUL — An attempted Turkish military coup appeared to crumble in the early hours of Saturday after crowds answered President Tayyip Erdogan's call to take to the streets to support him.Erdogan, who had been holidaying on the coast when the coup was launched, flew into......