There are 17999 articles

  • Deadly blasts rock Afghan city

    At least 35 people have been killed after a series of explosions rocked the centre of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, an interior ministry spokesman has said. Saturday's attacks also left 45 people, including policemen and civilians, injured. Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid, reporting from Kabul, the Afghan capital, said: "We spoke to the.. More

  • Deaths in Pakistan Swat blast

    Abomber targeting security forces in Pakistan on Saturday killed at least 11 people, police said. The assault near a security checkpost in Swat Valley, which also wounded 35 people, came a day after an attack on the military killed at least 45 people in the city of Lahore. “The bomber was in a rickshaw," said Qazi Ghulam Farooq, Mingora.. More

  • Christians, Muslims clash in Egypt injures 24

    At least 24 people were injured in northern Egypt in fighting between Christians and Muslims over land, officials told state media on Saturday. Fires were started during the fighting between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Marsa Matrouh governorate after Christian villagers built a fence around land next to a church-run building, the state news agency.. More

  • Israel seals off West Bank

    Israel has imposed a full closure of the occupied Palestinian territory of West Bank, announcing that no one will be allowed in or out for 48 hours. Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister, made the move amid reports of possible protests by Palestinians around the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem after Friday prayers. Only women and men over the age of.. More

  • US Troops kill reporter, husband in west Baghdad

    US forces today attacked a car in Western Baghdad, killing Iraqi journalist Aseel al-Obeidi and her husband, according to police. The US confirmed shooting two Iraqis in the area, but would provide no details. Obeidi had most recently worked for the private television news station Dijla TV, which went out of business earlier this year. The circumstances.. More

  • Greece hit by nationwide strike

    Greek public and private sector workers have gone on strike, grounding flights, shutting schools and halting public transport. The action is the second nationwide walkout in two weeks in protest against the government's austerity plans, which are aimed at cutting the country's huge debt. The government plans to save $6.5bn with increases in sales.. More

  • Civilians killed in Somali fighting

    More than 20 civilians have been killed in a second day of intense fighting between Somali government troops and opposition forces in the capital Mogadishu. The deaths occurred after government troops backed by African Union forces raided a position held by armed opposition in the north of the war-torn capital. Ali Muse, head of Mogadishu ambulance.. More

  • Indirect Israel talks 'called off'

    The Palestinian president appears to have called off indirect talks with Israel after the Israeli interior ministry announced it would build 1,600 new settler homes. Mahmoud Abbas conveyed the decision to Amr Moussa, the Arab League secretary-general, by phone, Moussa told a news conference following an urgent meeting of delegates at the Arab League.. More

  • Al-Azhar head dies in Saudi Arabia

    Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of Egypt's most prestigious seat of Islamic learning al Azhar, died of a heart attack on Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia, religious officials at al-Azhar said. The 82-year-old Egyptian, who had previously undergone heart surgery, suffered a heart attack as he boarded a flight early Wednesday morning,.. More

  • US reassure Israel over security

    Joe Biden, the US vice-president, and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, have held talks over the perceived threat posed by Iran and on reviving the Middle East peace process. After the meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Biden reassured Israel that the US stood alongside them in terms of security. "Progress occurs in the Middle East.. More

  • US family seeks Israeli damages

    The family of a US student activist killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza is set to launch a damages case in the Haifa district court in northern Israel. Rachel Corrie, whose family is suing for $324,000, was one of several foreign activists killed in confrontations with Israel in occupied territory in the past decade. She was nonviolently protesting.. More

  • Yemeni leader in dialogue call

    Yemen's president has offered to hold talks with separatists in the country's south, saying the state would listen to their grievances and "welcome any political demands". Ali Abdullah Saleh's offer to engage in a dialogue came a day after he vowed to defeat the separatists and security forces raided several of their hideouts. "The.. More

  • Fresh Middle East talks hit a wall

    Israel's move to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank has threatened to sabotage newly agreed indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority before they can even begin. George Mitchell, the US envoy to the Middle East, announced on Monday that the two sides had agreed a day earlier to begin indirect negotiations that have been stalled.. More

  • Earthquake rocks eastern Turkey

    An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude has rocked eastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people, and injuring 100 others. The quake struck at 04:32am local time (02:32 GMT) on Monday, centered on the village of Basyurt in Elazig province, about 550km (340 miles) east of Ankara, the country's capital, and caught many people in their sleep. The quake affected.. More

  • Deadly blast rocks Pakistani city

    A bomb has gone off outside a building housing a federal investigative agency in Pakistan's city of Lahore, killing at least eight people and wounding 45 others, police and government officials said. A police official said that Monday's explosion appeared to be a suicide car bomb. Mohammad Riaz, another police official, said: "The blast has taken.. More