Yemen

Tehran blames Iranian embassy air strike on Saudi Arabia

Iran has accused Saudi Arabia of an aerial attack on its embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. A foreign ministry spokesman in Tehran, Hossein Jaber

7 January 2016

World News

Charlie Hebdo attacks: five ways France has changed

It’s one year since two gunmen, brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, burst into the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened

7 January 2016

Yemen

School for the blind reportedly among sites hit in new airstrikes in Yemen

After a lull of several weeks Saudi-led airstrikes have resumed in Yemen, amid fresh concern about the impact on civilians

6 January 2016

Germany

Unknown attacker rakes German refugee shelter with gunfire

German police are investigating who fired several shots into a migrant shelter in a small town south of Frankfurt. A 23-year-old man was hit by a

4 January 2016

Afghanistan

Afghan forces battle insurgents after Indian consulate attack

Afghan forces have been battling with insurgents after attacks against an Indian consulate. A small group of gunmen barricaded themselves in a house

4 January 2016

Afghanistan

Indian consulate comes under attack in northern Afghanistan

An Indian consulate in northern Afghanistan came under attack on Sunday evening with gunmen attempting to enter the compound. Afghan security forces

3 January 2016

West Bank

West Bank: two charged over Dawabsha family arson attack

Charges come five months after deaths of a young couple and their baby son

3 January 2016

World News

Indian opposition party protests militant attack on air base

Members of India’s opposition Congress party have been protesting over an attack on an air force base near the Pakistan border.

3 January 2016

Israel

Tel Aviv: name released of bar shooting suspect

Case is “complex and unique”.

2 January 2016

India

4 attackers, 2 soldiers killed in militant attack on Indian AF base

*Gunmen entered Indian air force base on Saturday *Fire exchanged with security forces leave two of them dead Four gunmen and two soldiers were

2 January 2016

Israel

Israeli forces hunt gunman who killed two in busy Tel Aviv street

Israeli authorities are hunting a gunman who opened fire in a busy street in Tel Aviv, killing two and injuring at least seven others. The attacker

2 January 2016

France

Car drives at soldiers on guard outside Mosque in southern France

In southern France soldiers opened fired on a car which tried to ram them twice. They were on guard outside a Mosque. The driver of the car is now in

1 January 2016

Syria

ISIL claims fatal bomb attacks in Kurdish area of Syria

ISIL has claimed responsibility for bomb attacks on three restaurants in a predominately Kurdish area in northeast Syria, close to the Turkish

31 December 2015

World News

Russia: ISIL says it was behind deadly Dagestan shooting

ISIL says it was behind a gun attack at an historic fortress in southern Russia that left one person dead and 11 others injured. A group of

31 December 2015

World News

Russia: Manhunt underway after deadly gun attack on sightseers

An historic fortress in southern Russia was the scene of a deadly shooting targeting sightseers on Tuesday evening. Who was behind the bloodshed is

30 December 2015

Pakistan

Motorbike bomber kills at least 23 people in Mardan, Pakistan

A suicide bomber riding a motorbike laden with explosives blew himself up outside a government office in Pakistan killing at least 23 people and

29 December 2015

France

Corsica prayer hall and kebab shop targeted in 'revenge attack'

Demonstrators have vandalised a prayer hall on the French island of Corsica .. setting fire to prayer books and copies of the Koran. A kebab shop was

26 December 2015

Israel

Fatal attack in Jerusalem at the Jaffa Gate

There was a fatal attack in Jerusalem when two Palestinians went on a stabbing spree outside the Jaffa gate, one of the main entrances to the Old

23 December 2015

Pakistan

Peshawar school massacre anniversary marked

One year after Pakistan’s worst militant attack, families of children killed or wounded in the Peshawar school massacre say the local government has

16 December 2015

World News

One year on since Sydney cafe siege

Sydney marks one year since the Lindt cafe siege

15 December 2015