The most powerful bomb blast ever witnessed in Somalia’s capital killed 276 people with around 300 others injured, the country’s information minister said early Monday, making it the deadliest single attack in this Horn of Africa nation.
The toll was expected to rise further.
In a tweet, Abdirahman Osman called the attack "barbaric" and said countries including Turkey and Kenya had...
Pyongyang has threatened Australia with “disaster” unless the island nation abandons its allegiance with the US interests. Canberra however said it will not be “cowed” by threats and will continue to do everything to “protect and help” its allies.
“Should Australia continue to follow the US in imposing military, economic and diplomatic pressure upon the DPRK despite our...
The number of casualties in deadly truck bomb blast in Mogadishu, Somalia has risen to 53, AP reports, citing security and medical sources.
More than 60 others were injured. Many victims of the blast that rocked the capital on Saturday died at hospitals from their wounds, Police Captain Mohamed Hussein said.
It is feared that the death toll from the blast will be the highest the country has...
An Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) group used civilians as human shields to evacuate from the Syrian city of Raqqa overnight, a spokesman for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) told Reuters on Sunday.
The US-backed SDF are still trying to oust Islamists from the city, and some foreign fighters left under the so-called withdrawal deal.
“The operation has finished and the...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that he "welcomes" the Egyptian-sponsored agreement signed between Palestine’s two political parties, Hamas and Fattah in Cairo.
Palestinian rival factions, Hamas and Fatah, have reached a consensus on reconciliation to end a decade-long national split during the second session of their national reconciliation dialogue held in Cairo from October 10...
Pope Francis will talk peace on his to visit Myanmar, a Catholic church representative said on Thursday (Oct 12), a potentially highly charged trip during a refugee crisis that has seen 520,000 Rohingya Muslims pushed out of the country.
The late November visit comes as western Rakhine state is devoured by communal violence that has sent unprecedented numbers of Rohingya fleeing into...
Kurdish peshmerga forces on Thursday blocked roads from Iraqi Kurdistan to the country's second city Mosul in response to Iraqi troop movements, a senior Kurdish military official told AFP.
"The two main roads connecting Irbil and Dohuk to Mosul were cut off on Thursday with sand embankments as a precautionary measure after we detected an increase in deployments and movements of Iraqi forces...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Gaza for the first time in a decade within a month, a top official in his Fatah party said on Thursday, after reconciliation talks with rivals Hamas.
Abbas "will be in Gaza within less than a month," Zakaria al-Agha, a senior Fatah leader in the Gaza Strip, told AFP after a breakthrough in talks between the two sides in Cairo.
Abbas...
Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have reached a deal over political reconciliation, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said in a statement on Thursday, without providing further details about the accord brokered by Egypt.
A Hamas official told Reuters that details are expected to be released at a noon news conference in Cairo, where unity talks between the rival factions began on...
The Security Council will on Friday hold an informal meeting on Myanmar to hear former UN chief Kofi Annan provide details of a report on the plight of Rohingya Muslims, diplomats said.
The UN's top political affairs official, Jeffrey Feltman, will travel to Myanmar on Friday for four days of talks on the crisis.
More than 500,000 people, mostly Rohingyas, have since late August fled an...
