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DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad gives an interview to a journalist from Britain's Sunday Times in his Damascus residence. - AFP n
Assad says Britain's Syria strikes 'illegal'
DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad gives an interview to a journalist from Britain's Sunday Times in his Damascus residence. - AFP LONDON: Britain's bombing campaign against Islamic State extremists in Syria is "illegal" and will only cause "terrorism" to spread, President Bashar Al-Assad said in an interview published yesterday. "It will be harmful and illegal and it will support terrorism as happened after the coalition started its...
LONDON: A police officer stands guard outside Leytonstone station in north London yesterday, a day after three people were stabbed. - AFP n
Police probe London Tube stabbing
LONDON: A police officer stands guard outside Leytonstone station in north London yesterday, a day after three people were stabbed. - AFP LONDON: British counter-terror police were questioning a 29-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder yesterday after a stabbing attack in a London Underground train station that is being treated as a "terrorist incident". Detectives from Britain's Counter Terrorism Command (CTC) were searching a home in...
Yemenis inspect the scene of a car bomb attack that killed the Governor of Aden Jaafar Saad
Governor of Aden killed in car bomb; IS claims attack, threatens more - New blow to Hadi
Yemenis inspect the scene of a car bomb attack that killed the Governor of Aden Jaafar Saad ADEN: A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group yesterday killed the governor of Yemen's second city Aden, a day after the UN's envoy visited to press for long-delayed peace talks. A statement posted on Twitter by the jihadist group said it was behind a blast that hit the convoy of Jaafar Saad in the Tawahi neighborhood of the major port, killing...
CARTAGENA, Colombia: This undated handout picture shows the remains of the Spanish galleon San Jose, sunk off the Caribbean coast of Colombia. - AFP n
Colombia finds treasure galleon - 300-year mystery ends
CARTAGENA, Colombia: This undated handout picture shows the remains of the Spanish galleon San Jose, sunk off the Caribbean coast of Colombia. - AFP CARTAGENA, Colombia: Colombia says it has found the shipwreck of a storied Spanish galleon laden with gold and precious stones, three centuries after it was sunk by the British in the Caribbean. "This is the most valuable treasure that has been found in the history of humanity," declared...
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Women getting more interested in IS terrorism
WASHINGTON: Islamic State propaganda is resonating with a growing and loyal following of young women and teenagers, complicating US counterterrorism efforts to identify and monitor supporters such as Tashfeen Malik, the 29-year-old mother suspected in the California shootings along with her husband. It's unusual for a woman to be involved in mass violence in the United States. But the increasing number of women drawn to IS is worrisome to...
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32 IS fighters dead in US-led raids - 13 civilians killed in Russian air strikes
ISTANBUL: Musicians from Syria play Arabic songs for money in central Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue, the main shopping road of Istanbul, on Saturday. According to Turkish authorities, more than 2.2 million Syrian refugees are in Turkey, after they had fled civil war in their country, now in its fifth year. — AP BEIRUT: At least 32 Islamic State group fighters were killed yesterday in apparent US-led coalition raids on Syria as President...
KOBAYAT, Lebanon: Lebanese soldier George Al-Khoury, who was kidnapped by jihadist groups in early Aug 2014, stands with his wife and one of their two sons at their house in this village on Dec 2, 2015. — AFP
Lebanese soldier recalls Qaeda kidnap ordeal
KOBAYAT, Lebanon: Lebanese soldier George Al-Khoury, who was kidnapped by jihadist groups in early Aug 2014, stands with his wife and one of their two sons at their house in this village on Dec 2, 2015. — AFP KOBAYAT, Lebanon: Lebanese soldier George Al-Khoury cried for days after Al-Qaeda executed a fellow captive during one of the lowest points of his 16-month ordeal as a hostage of the group. Now back home in northern Lebanon, he can...
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Jordanian man overpowered on Lufthansa flight
BERLIN: Lufthansa crew and passengers overpowered a man who interfered with a cabin door on a Frankfurt-Belgrade flight yesterday, the German carrier said, insisting the safety of the plane had not been threatened. "A passenger got up and tried to do something at the door, but was stopped by crew members and other passengers," said airline spokesman Andreas Bartels. "The passenger was then restrained for the remainder of the flight in his seat...
This undated photo provided by the FBI shows Tashfeen Malik. Malik and her husband, Syed Farook, died in a fierce gunbattle with authorities several hours after their commando-style assault on a gathering of Farook’s colleagues from San Bernardino, California, County’s health department Wednesday, December 2, 2015. — AP
Woman in deadly California rampage fervently devout
This undated photo provided by the FBI shows Tashfeen Malik. Malik and her husband, Syed Farook, died in a fierce gunbattle with authorities several hours after their commando-style assault on a gathering of Farook’s colleagues from San Bernardino, California, County’s health department Wednesday, December 2, 2015. — AP SAN BERNARDINO: In the final few years of Tashfeen Malik's life, the people around the young woman saw her dress ever...
KAROR LAL ESAM: Hifza Batool, a relative of Tashfeen Malikis pictured at her home in the town of Karor Lal Esam, about 450 kilometers (280 miles) southwest of Islamabad, Pakistan. — AP
'We feel ashamed': Pakistani relatives of California shooter
KAROR LAL ESAM: Hifza Batool, a relative of Tashfeen Malikis pictured at her home in the town of Karor Lal Esam, about 450 kilometers (280 miles) southwest of Islamabad, Pakistan. — AP KAROR LAL ESAN: Estranged relatives of a Pakistani woman involved in a mass shooting in California spoke yesterday of their shame at her crimes, as former classmates and teachers painted a picture of a quiet, religiously conservative student. Tashfeen Malik,...
CHENNAI: Destroyed vehicles are seen as floodwaters recede yesterday. — AFP
Airport reopens in Chennai
CHENNAI: Destroyed vehicles are seen as floodwaters recede yesterday. — AFP CHENNAI: India’s main airport in flood-devastated Tamil Nadu state reopened yesterday as emergency workers strove to help thousands of residents forced to flee their inundated homes. The international airport in the state capital Chennai had closed on Wednesday leaving thousands of passengers stranded, after record rains worsened flooding that has claimed nearly 300...
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Top security officials of India, Pakistan meet - Talks cover peace, terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir
ISLAMABAD: The Indian and Pakistani national security advisers held "cordial" talks in Bangkok yesterday on militancy and Kashmir, a joint statement said, as the two countries seek a thaw in frosty relations. The talks, originally scheduled in August but cancelled by India, came days after the prime ministers of both countries met on the sidelines of a conference in Paris. "Pursuant to the meeting of the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan in...
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Among the achievements of the post-oil era, modern buildings rise around a mosque, replacing the old mud houses with concrete homes equipped with water and electricity, built by the Kuwaiti government for its citizens.
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DARAA, Syria: Mourners pray over the flag-draped coffins of people killed in Zionist shelling on Nawa in southern Syria during their funeral on April 3, 2025. - AFP
Zionists step up strikes on Syria, challenge Turkey
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BERLIN: Kuwait’s Minister of Social Affairs Dr Amthal Al-Huwailah (center) participates in the third Global Disability Summit in Berlin, Germany. — KUNA
Kuwait stresses need for stronger policies at global disability summit