(AFP) — Two policemen were killed Saturday in Iran’s restive southeast near Pakistan, Iranian media said, in an attack claimed by jihadists that left four assailants dead. The grenade attack and ensuing firefight at a police station was the latest…
By Gareth Browne and Saleh Hamad with Jonah Mandel in JerusalemAgence France-Presse (AFP) – Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in a large-scale operation Monday in the occupied West Bank that the army labelled an “extensive counterterrorism effort,” involving air strikes…
(AFP) – Israeli forces on Thursday demolished the home of a Palestinian accused of killing a soldier in the occupied West Bank, which has been hit by a new outbreak of violence. This week, at least 18 people have been…
(AFP) – A Palestinian died Tuesday from gunshot wounds sustained in an earlier Israeli raid, the Palestinian health ministry said after announcing another man was killed elsewhere in the occupied West Bank. Amjad Aref Jaas “died from critical wounds to…
(AFP) — The Israeli army said it intercepted rocket fire from Lebanon Thursday, a day after clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians inside Islam’s third-holiest site drew warnings of retaliation from around the region. “A rocket was fired from Lebanon…
By Alexandra Vardi and Daniella CheslowAgence France-Presse (AFP) — “I was supposed to go to study today, but now I’m going to a funeral,” laments Shlomo Alperin, 23, still in shock from witnessing the most violent attack in years in…
(AFP) — About 200 foreigners including Americans are to leave Kabul in the first airlift since the US withdrawal and Taliban takeover, a source and officials said on Thursday, adding that the airport was gradually reopening. A Qatari technical official…
By Sebastian Smith Agence France-Presse (AFP) — President Joe Biden addresses the nation Tuesday on the US exit from Afghanistan after a failed 20 year war that he’d vowed to end but whose chaotic last days are now overshadowing his…
By David Fox with Paul Handley in WashingtonAgence France-Presse (AFP) — The US military has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan to end a brutal 20-year war — one that started and ended with the hardline Islamist Taliban in power, despite…
(AFP) — The Islamic State-Khorasan group claimed a rocket attack Monday on the airport in Afghanistan’s capital. “The soldiers of the caliphate targeted Kabul’s international airport with six… rockets,” the group said in a statement. The rockets fell as US…
