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Damascus, SANA- 14 people were martyred and others were injured in the explosion of two explosive devices attached to a military bus near the President Bridge in Damascus on Wednesday morning. “At about 06:45 a.m. on Wednesday, while a military bus was passing near Jisr al-Rais in Damascus, the bus was targeted with two explosive […]

Beneath its expansionist rhetoric, the Somali jihadi group al-Shabaab has abandoned its transnational goals to focus on local issues. For Somalia, this is might actually be good news. With the Somali government’s seven-year war against al-Shabaab stuck in a bloody stalemate, this re-orientation creates new opportunities for negotiations. The Somali government should take advantage of […]

Libyan revolutionary fighters returning from Sirte are welcomed at Al Guwarsha gate in Benghazi, Libya, Oct. 22, 2011. (AP Photo)  Ten years since Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was ousted and killed during the Arab Spring uprising, those struggling to stabilize Libya see the Dec. 24 presidential elections as a ray of hope Ten years after […]

In this Oct. 3, 2019 photo carried by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency, Pukguksong-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile is launched from a submersible barge. YonhapNorth Korea launched a ballistic missile into the East Sea, Tuesday, despite the U.S.’s apparent efforts to entice Pyongyang to return to denuclearization talks by opening up the possibility of discussions […]

Colin Powell, a US war hero and the first Black secretary of state who saw his legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in 2003, died Monday from complications from Covid-19. The former secretary of state described his role in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War as “a blot” that […]

“Many people think it would be better not to have children than to have children and make them suffer,” a source told Daily NK A doctor administers a vaccination to a child in North Korea. / Image: Yonhap News Agency North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for new childcare policies in a recent policy […]

In this Jan.17, 2017 file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed in a start-up companies gathering at Paris’ Station F, in Paris.   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File  Facebook says it plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union over the next five years to work on a new computing platform. The company said in a blog post on […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (C) arrives in Luanda, Angola with his wife Emine Erdoğan (L), Oct. 17, 2021. (AA Photo)  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Angola’s capital Luanda for the first leg of his mini-tour of three African countries, also including Nigeria and Togo. Erdoğan was welcomed by Angola’s Foreign Minister Tete Antonio and Alp Ay, […]

Spokesman for interior ministry tells Al Jazeera that all schools and universities in Afghanistan will reopen ‘in a very short time’. Since taking power, Taliban have only allowed girls of primary age to attend school [File: Bulent Kilic/AFP] Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs has said girls will be allowed to return to secondary schools soon. Qari […]

France’s ambassador to Belarus has left the country after the authorities in Minsk demanded he leave by Monday, the embassy said. The spokeswoman who made the announcement did not say why the Belarusian authorities demanded he leave the country. But according to reports in the Belarusian media, ambassador Nicolas de Lacoste never met President Alexander Lukashenko to […]