Gunmen lobbed a grenade and sprayed a police checkpoint with gunfire in southern Afghanistan, killing eight officers, Kandahar's police chief said Friday.
The U.S. military said airstrikes by its attack helicopters hit two vehicles carrying insurgents Friday in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan officials said civilians were traveling in the vehicles.
Baabda - Lebanese Forces leader Dr. Samir Geagea said that the atmosphere is positive and hopes that a breakthrough will be achieved within the next 24 hours and Lebanon could witness the birth of a new government
The fact is (that) carbon-based fossil fuels still are the cheapest, most efficient and most reliable energy sources for our mobile society," he told the World Petroleum Congress industry event. "Nevertheless, it is politically popular these days to extol the
The Bushehr marine police seized four foreign fishing vessels for violating territorial waters and illegal fishing," the commander of Bushehr province's police said. "The vessels belong to Saudi and all the 17 crew on board are Indian nationals," he said.
The unnamed suspect allegedly stabbed his sister 10 times in the heart on Wednesday in a village in the northeastern governorate of Mafraq. "He has confessed to murdering his sister because she disappeared from home for a month with a
We not only are against military action on Iran but are also against economic sanctions," said Ebadi. Her address marked the formation of a "National Peace Council" of more than 70 dissident Iranian politicians, social activists and intellectuals. Ebadi also
Darwish drew thousands of Palestinians to a rare public reading in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday night. The crowds unable to get seats in the city's Cultural Palace watched him on outdoor screens nearby. Newspapers said millions
Residents of the area have often complained of serious health problems like cancer, skin rashes, miscarriages and asthma. However, the increasing number of dead fish in the sea and on the shore has raised the fear that pollution has reached
But there are challenges also. As Dr Saleh S. Al Wohaibi, Secretary-General of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) said charitable organisations in Saudi Arabia and the GCC states face obstacles and challenges, which can only be overcome by
Israeli army spokesman Peter Lerner says all cargo passages remained shut Friday morning. He says the decision came Thursday after Palestinians fired a rocket toward Israel. No injuries were reported. The rockets and closure are violations of a June 19
A dustup over war policy -- one of the main issues separating the Illinois senator from his Republican opponent, John McCain -- overshadowed Obama's town-hall meeting here with veterans to talk about patriotism and his plans to care for them.
Loud screams break the quiet of a Beirut neighborhood in the early hours of Sunday, June 15: It's Angelique, a 26-year-old domestic worker from Congo, crying for the police as she runs to the balcony. From inside the apartment, a
A two-story building collapsed around 7 p.m. on Wednesday in the Tal neighborhood in the Northern city of Tripoli, killing three Syrian workers and injuring another four people, who were immediately transferred to the Islamic Hospital for treatment. Abdel-Kader Abdullah,
Fears of another battle between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and armed factions in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon spiked on Thursday, when a group of some 30 members of Fatah al-Intifada in the Burj al-Barajneh camp in Beirut split
A regulatory bylaw issued by the Minister of Manpower Dr Juma bin Ali bin Juma, that applies to all establishments governed by the country's Labour Law, stipulates that companies must put in place health and safety specifications that protect workers
