by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 13, 2015 | World
Karachi, AP—Gunmen killed more than 40 people on Wednesday aboard a bus in southern Pakistan bound for a Shi’ite community center, in the latest attack targeting the religious minority. The attack in the port city of Karachi was the deadliest Pakistan has seen...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 19, 2015 | Middle East
Tunis, AP—One of the two gunmen who killed 19 tourists and others at a prominent Tunisian museum was known to intelligence services, Tunisia’s prime minister said Thursday. But no formal links to a particular terrorist group have been established in an attack...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 27, 2015 | World
Dhaka, Bangladesh, AP—A prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger known for speaking out against religious extremism was hacked to death as he walked through Bangladesh’s capital with his wife, police said Friday. The attack Thursday night on Avijit Roy, a...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 14, 2015 | World
One civilian was killed and three police were wounded on Saturday in shooting at a public meeting in the Danish capital Copenhagen attended by the controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks, police and the Danish Ritzau news agency reported. Danish police confirmed one...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 10, 2015 | World
Paris, AP—France’s president chaired an emergency security meeting Saturday aimed at thwarting a repeat of the attacks around Paris by terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda in Yemen that scarred the nation and left 20 dead at a satirical newspaper, a kosher supermarket...
