
AFGHANISTAN
Blast kills five officers in Afghanistan
An explosion claims the lives of five Afghan officers, including a police commander, in Kabul Province.

An explosion claims the lives of five Afghan officers, including a police commander, in Kabul Province.

The website of Iran’s Arabic-language Al Alam television news network is hacked.

China rejects as baseless the recent US criticism on the sentences given to rights activists.

Kuwaiti authorities arrest a Filipino accused of pledging allegiance to the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group and planning to launch a terrorist attack in Kuwait.

A ‘racist’ cartoon recently published by The Australian stokes another national debate on the treatment of Aboriginals.

A senior Iranian official says Iran sees no difference between the US presidential candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties.

Over 40 people have been arrested in the US state of Tennessee over the past week in connection with human trafficking.

Arab and Kurdish forces liberate the northern Syrian city of Manbij from Takfiri Daesh militants, a monitoring group says.

Takfiri Daesh terrorists execute 61 more civilians in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk.

Japan lodges a strong protest with Beijing after several Chinese vessels sailed close to the disputed islets in the East China Sea.

The UK labor market went into a "freefall" last month after the vote to leave the European Union, according to a new survey.

Canada charges a senior UK army soldier with sexually assaulting a Canadian female military officer in Ontario.

A US-based advocacy group has been sending letters to international companies, warning them of the “costs” of doing business with Iran, a report says.

Border police clash with the refugees seeking to cross from Italy into France.

Israeli military forces shoot and injure six young Palestinian men during clashes in the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.

Four people are killed as an improvised explosive device goes off in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

A Muslim American couple was removed from a Delta Airlines plane because of their appearance.

An Iranian war veteran, who recently embraced martyrdom after 28 years of struggling with agonizing injuries, has been laid to rest in northeastern Iran.