Major Saudi Arabia oil facilities hit by Houthi drone strikes

Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a drone attack on the world’s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia which is vital to global energy supplies. The attacks on the processor and a major oilfield, operated by Saudi Aramco, on early Saturday Read More …

3 killed in explosive attack in southern Somalia

At least three people including a local government official were killed on Saturday in a roadside blast along the road linking Bal’ad and Jowhar towns in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region. The spokesman of HirShabelle state Da’ud Haji Irro told journalists Read More …

Dozens killed in two Burkina Faso attacks

At least 29 people were killed in two separate incidents in Burkina Faso’s troubled north on Sunday after a food convoy and a transport truck were attacked, the government said. One vehicle transporting people and goods “rode over an improvised Read More …

Philippines: 7 wounded in another bomb attack in Isulan

An Improvised explosive device went off in a motorcycle parking lot in a public market in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat on Saturday, September 7, 2019, wounding at least seven individuals. It was the fourth bomb attack in Isulan in less than Read More …

Taliban Claims Deadly Bomb Attack In Kabul; Two NATO Troops Killed

At least 12 people have been killed — including a U.S. and a Romanian soldier — and dozens more injured when a car bomb struck a checkpoint on September 5 in a neighborhood of Kabul that houses the embassies, government Read More …

One killed, nine injured in two IED blasts in Quetta

A volunteer of Chhipa Welfare Association died and nine others sustained injuries in two improvised explosive device (IED) blasts that occurred near Khezai Chowk of western bypass in Quetta late Thursday night. The injured included two senior police officers, a Read More …

Taliban claims massive VBIED explosion close to Green Village in Kabul city

The Taliban group claimed responsibility for a massive Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) explosion in Kabul city earlier tonight. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that one of the suicide bombers of the group detonated the VBIED close Read More …

2 policemen injured in ISIS attack targeting Bangladesh Minister in Dhaka

The bomb was thrown from the footbridge at the Science Lab intersection on Saturday night when the Minister was passing through the area, reports said. Two policemen were injured in a blast near the car of a Bangladeshi Minister in Read More …

Taliban bomb kills 8 civilians including women and children in Balkh

A roadside bomb explosion killed 8 civilians including women and children in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan. The 209th Shaheen Corps said in a statement that the explosion took place in Chimtal district on Saturday. Blaming Taliban for the incident, Read More …

IED explodes outside the Pakistan Consulate General in Jalalabad

An improvised explosive device (IED) exploded outside the Pakistan Consulate General in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, Foreign Office Spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal said on Sunday. All Pakistani staffers at the consulate are safe. According to a tweet, Dr Read More …

U.S. military confirms attack on a convoy near Bagram Airfield, no casualties reported

The U.S. military confirmed an attack on a military convoy near Bagram Airfield in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan. According to a statement released by U.S. military “There was an attack on a convoy last night near Bagram Airfield in Read More …

IS makes comeback in Syria through sleeper cells

On Aug. 20, unidentified gunmen blew up Al-Salam hospital in Sheikh Hamad village, south of the town of Marqada, which is controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the countryside of Hasakah in northeastern Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Read More …

Philippines: Central Mindanao troops on high alert

Security forces in Central Mindanao are on heightened alert following a bomb explosion Monday in Datu Anggal Midtimbang town, Maguindanao, and a foiled bomb plot in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat. Lt. Col. Manuel Alburo, the Army’s 6th Infantry Division spokesperson, said Read More …

Fermanagh bomb attack ‘deliberate attempt’ to murder police, says PSNI

  The PSNI believes officers were lured to the site of the suspected dissident bomb attack in Co Fermanagh in attempt to kill and injure them. PSNI deputy chief constable Stephen Martin told a press conference in Belfast: “The threat Read More …

Israel: Unknown assailants detonate bomb in Bnei Brak apartment building; no injuries

Police exploring possible attempt to threaten senior municipal officials living in the building; stun grenade thrown at Netivot mayor’s home A bomb blew up in an apartment building stairwell in the central city of Bnei Brak on Sunday night, damaging Read More …