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Suicide bomb hits Palm Sunday Mass in Indonesia, 20 wounded

9:28 pm March 28, 2021

Makassar: Two attackers blew themselves up outside a packed Roman Catholic cathedral during a Palm Sunday Mass on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, wounding at least 20 people, police said. A video obtained by The Associated Press showed body parts scattered near a burning motorbike at the gates of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province. Rev. Wilhelmus Tulak, […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Government attack on hospital in northwestern Syria kills 6

11:44 pm March 21, 2021

Beirut : Artillery shells fired from government areas hit a major hospital in a rebel-controlled town in northwestern Syria on Sunday, killing at least six patients, including a child, wounding medical staff and forcing the facility to shut its doors, rescuers, an aid group and activists reported. The shells landed at the entrance and in the courtyard […]

UNICEF: Syria’s war has killed and wounded 12,000 children

10:54 pm March 10, 2021

Beirut: Syria‘s 10-year-long civil war has killed or wounded almost 12,000 children and left millions out of school in what could have repercussions for years to come in the country, the U.N. children’s agency said Wednesday. The grim statistics were released in a UNICEF report ahead of the 10th anniversary of Syria’s conflict that began in mid-March 2011. The […]

Aerials show huge blaze after oil facility strike in Syria

11:52 pm March 7, 2021

Damascus: A suspected missile strike on an oil-loading facility used by Turkey-backed opposition forces in northern Syria sparked a massive blaze across a large area where oil tankers are normally parked, aerial and satellite images show. Syrian opposition groups and at least one war monitor blamed Russia for the strike Friday night near the towns […]

US reporter held by al-Qaida-linked group in Syria released

7:37 pm February 18, 2021

Beirut: An American journalist, living in northwestern Syria for nearly a decade, has been released, six months after he was captured by an al-Qaida-linked militant group, Syrian opposition media reported. Bilal Abdul Kareem, a native of Mount Vernon, N.Y., has been living in the rebel-held Syrian northwest since 2012, reporting on the Syrian government military campaigns against areas in opposition hands. He had been detained last August, following […]

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