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Boko Haram has killed 3,500 civilians in Nigeria and bordering countries this year even as a regional offensive has driven the Islamist militants from large tracts of territory, the London-based human rights group, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. According to Read more
As millions of Muslims prepare to begin their pilgrimage on Tuesday, Saudi Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammed bin Naif stressed that the kingdom will not tolerate any political propaganda during the pilgrimage and renewed the government’s determination to fight Read more
The Tunisian Prime Minister and the Interior Minister Thursday stated in separate statements that the government did not authorize the demonstrations against the economic reconciliation bill planned for Saturday for purely security reasons and that the ban should not be Read more
A Turkish court Monday charged the America-based online news outlet Vice News’ two reporters and their Turkish colleague for terrorism as they were reporting on Turkish army’s clashes with PKK fighters in Diyarbakır province. Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, both Read more
The fragile diplomatic ties between Tehran and Kuwait City that were marred with tensions last week may reach new levels after Hamad al-Harashani, head of the foreign relations committee at the Kuwaiti parliament, said Iran is the “true enemy” of the Gulf States and it Read more
Saudi Arabia suffered on Thursday another suicide attack that targeted a mosque, in the southern Saudi city of Abha near the border with Yemen, killing more than a dozen people, most of them from the Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) unit. The Read more
A group of ISIL militants preparing attacks had been arrested by the Kuwait authorities, KUNA state news agency reported on Thursday. As June 26 bombing crackdown continues, Kuwait security authorities nabbed in separate operations a network of ISIL militants who Read more
“We will uproot the state of the Jews (Israel) and you and Fatah, and all of the secularists… and you will be over-run by our creeping multitudes,” said a masked ISIS member in a message addressed to the “tyrants of Hamas,” according Read more