by Khalid Mahmoud | Dec 12, 2016 | Middle East
Twenty nine people were killed in a suicide car bomb near Mogadishu’s largest port yesterday. The attack took place in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, in the latest suicide attack of its kind sponsored by the militant group Al-Shabaab that is linked to Al-Qaeda....
by Youssef Diab | Jun 8, 2016 | Middle East
In a joint statement that Al-Tibabah Al-Shariyya (an organisation that documents and buries the bodies of the Syrian regime’s victims) and the charity Ansar Al-Madhloomeen issued yesterday, the two organisations appealed to the world to help residents of the Syrian...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 30, 2016 | World
NAIROBI- After rescuers were still searching in the scene of the six-story building that collapsed in Nairobi’s Huruma residential estate on Friday, today the death toll in Kenya’s capital has risen to 7 where in addition to those who have lost their lives, the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 14, 2013 | World
London, Reuters—Several hundred people turned up for a “party” in central London on Saturday to celebrate the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher as a mass protest predicted by some failed to materialize. The British capital’s mayor had warned of...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 8, 2013 | World
London, Reuters—Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady”, was a towering figure in British 20th century politics; a grocer’s daughter with a steely resolve who was loved and loathed in equal measure as she crushed the unions and privatized vast swathes of industry....
