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On Tuesday, Taliban gunmen attacked a Karachi airport security post, only a day after militants’ offensive at the airport. 37 people were killed in the all-night siege that ripped apart the peace process between the Taliban and the Pakistani government. Tuesday’s assault on the security post was aimed at an entry point to a nearby Airport Security Force camp, some …

Hundreds of villagers from four villages in northeast Nigeria are feared dead in suspected Boko Haram attacks, in the latest increase in violence that is claiming the lives of an increasing number of civilians. According to local sources, Tuesday’s death toll due to attacks in Gwozo district in the state of Borno could be as high as 500; however, the …

Twin suicide bombs targeting the Shabak minority and clashes between militants and security forces in the northern province of Nineveh in Iraq on Friday left 33 people dead, officials said. Mosul, Ninevah’s provincial capital, is one of the most dangerous cities in Iraq, with militant groups involved in near-daily attacks. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in vehicles in Al-Muwaffaqiyah, …

10 people were killed by a truck bomb attack in a regime-controlled village in Homs on Monday, state television reported. “The terrorist explosion in Haraqi village in Homs province was caused by a tanker truck bomb. The initial toll says 10 people were killed, and major damage was caused to houses”, state television said. The attack is especially worrisome as …

On Wednesday, Pakistani jets crushed Taliban targets in North Waziristan district near the Afghani border, leaving at least 60 people dead in the attacks. According to officials, the targets in the district, a stronghold of al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, were taken down in the early hours of Wednesday. A few insurgent commanders were also killed in the strikes. The military’s …

Defense for Children Palestine (DCI-Palestine) this past week released a shocking video which clearly showed that two young Palestinian men were killed by IDF soldiers last Thursday while they were walking near the Nakba Day protest site outside Ofer Prison in West Bank. Previously, IDF officials maintained that the Palestinian teens had thrown firebombs and stones at the IDF soldiers, …

The Syrian Air Defense Chief General Hussein Ishaq was killed on Sunday in a military offensive against rebels near Damascus. General Ishaq was wounded on Saturday during the military’s assault on the town Mleiha to the east of Damascus, and succumbed to his wounds on Sunday. The military offensive aims to increase the area near the capital under the President’s …

Six Ukrainian military troops were killed by separatist forces near the city Krematorsk in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. Eight more soldiers were wounded in the separatist “ambush” in the outskirts village of Oktyabrske near the city Krematorsk. The statement, released on the Defense ministry’s website, said that the attack was “cynical and dangerous”, and had occurred …

Eleven people were killed in violence as the Iraqi Armed Forces on Friday launched an operation to regain control of areas in the proximity of the militant-held city Fallujah. Anti-government forces have been in control of the city, not far from Baghdad, and parts of the provincial capital Ramadi, since January. The operation is being considered as preparation for a …

An attack on the Yemeni Presidential Palace by suspected Al-Qaeda militants triggered a fierce gunfight and led to the deaths of five guards, as the militants hit back after the launch of an army offensive aimed to crush them. President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi was not in the palace when the gunmen attacked at a checkpoint outside the compound. Hadi only …