Targeted Killings

Updated 1 day ago · Published on 8 Mar 2021 10:30PM · More than 300 women have left the media industry of Afghanistan following a spate of attacks targeting women journalists. – EPA pic, March 8, 2021. NEARLY 20% of Afghan women journalists have quit or lost their jobs in…

In recent months, Afghanistan has been rocked by bombings, rocket attacks and targeted killings. Two Afghan policemen were killed when three separate “sticky bombs” exploded in Kabul, the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital in recent weeks. The policemen were killed when the bomb attached to their vehicle exploded…

Published December 26, 2020 12:32am PALIMBANG, Sultan Kudarat - A squad of communist New People’s Army (NPA) gunmen were killed on Friday, Christmas Day, after a base camp in Sultan Kudarat’s Daguma Mountain Range was hit by a GPS-guided smart bomb dropped by a Philippine Air Force FA-50 jet. According…

EVA VERGARA, Associated PressDec. 22, 2020Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 6:27 p.m.SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The pandemic has finally reached every continent on Earth. Chilean authorities announced that at least 58 people that were at two military bases in Antarctica or on a navy ship that went to the continent tested positive for…

Indian Border Security Force soldiers at a checkpoint in Kashmir on a highway leading to Ladakh, June 17, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Ismail Disputes between India and China over their border in the Himalayas have intensified in recent months, after a deadly clash between their troops in June. That adds to broader…

WASHINGTON — Black service members in the Air Force are far more likely to be investigated, arrested, face disciplinary actions and be discharged for misconduct, according to a new report that looked at racial disparities across the service.The report by the Air Force inspector general, released Monday, said Black members…

Loading... Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (in dark blue shirt) spent some time mingling with flood victims comprising 154 people from 59 families housed at the relief centre and presented aid in the form of food supply to them, December 22, 2020. ― Bernama picPASIR MAS, Dec 22 ―…

PASIR MAS: Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today visited flood evacuees taking shelter at a temporary relief centre in Kelantan. The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) helicopter ferrying the Prime Minister landed at the Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Gual Tinggi field, here at about 10 am from the Gong Kedak…

The Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP) has reportedly replaced Goni Maina, the former commander who was killed on December 1 in an air raid jointly conducted by the Nigerian army and the air force. ISWAP, a break-out faction of Boko Haram, has appointed Aliyu Chakkar as its new “governor…

Pulse had earlier reported that hundreds of students were abducted by armed bandits from Government Science Secondary School in Katsina hours after President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Daura, his home state in Katsina. The Principal of the school, Usman Abubakar, while confirming the development said some of the student ran home…