Category: Middle East

Al-Qaeda Terrorist Attack Kills 20 Yemeni Forces in Abyan, Says Southern Military

ADEN—Al-Qaeda terrorists killed some 20 Yemeni security force members in an assault in the southern Abyan province on Tuesday, a southern military spokesperson said, before all eight attackers were killed. The terrorists used rocket-propelled grenades, light, and medium weapons, and military vehicles in the ambush on a security checkpoint in Ahwar district, Mohammed al-Naqib, spokesperson…


ISIS Claims Responsibility for Bombing That Killed Russian Embassy Staff

The ISIS terrorist group has claimed credit for Monday’s deadly suicide bomb attack near the entrance of the Russian embassy in the Afghanistan capital, Kabul. In a statement on the extremist group’s Telegram channel, ISIS said one of its fighters “blew up his suicide vest in a gathering attended by Russian employees” near the embassy….


4 Afghan Children Playing With Unexploded Shell Killed in School

ISLAMABAD—An unexploded ordnance detonated in southern Afghanistan, killing four children and injuring three others after the children brought it inside their school, police and a doctor said. The incident in Helmand province on Sept. 3 happened when the children discovered an unexploded shell and brought it inside their religious school and started playing with it,…


Afghan Mosque Blast Kills 18, Including Pro-Taliban Cleric

HERAT, Afghanistan—An explosion tore through a crowded mosque in western Afghanistan, killing at least 18 people. including a prominent cleric close to the Taliban, Taliban representatives and a local medic said. At least 23 people were hurt. The explosion in the city of Herat on Sept. 2 left the courtyard of the Guzargah Mosque littered…


US Military Flies 2 B-52 Bombers Over Middle East in Show of Force

The U.S. military has flown two B-52 bombers over the Middle East—the fourth such mission this year—in an apparent show of force in the region. It comes amid heightened tensions between the United States and Iran as officials from both nations continue to struggle to come to an agreement on resuming the 2015 Iran nuclear deal,…


Israeli Army Says ‘High Possibility’ Al-Jazeera Reporter ‘Accidentally’ Killed

The Israeli army announced on Monday that there’s a “high possibility” a soldier had misidentified Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as an armed militant when she was “accidentally” shot and killed earlier this year. Abu Akleh worked for the network’s Arabic language channel and died on May 11 while on assignment covering an Israeli military raid…


OPEC Slashes Oil Output Weeks After Biden’s Fist Bump With Saudi Crown Prince

Crude futures rallied Monday after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its oil-producing allies, OPEC+, agreed to trim their production levels amid growing global recession fears. The cartel plans to reduce output targets by approximately 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) beginning in October. Officials purported that it was necessary to stabilize market…


OPEC Slashes Oil Output Weeks After Biden’s Fist Pump With Saudi Crown Prince

Crude futures rallied Monday after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its oil-producing allies, OPEC+, agreed to trim their production levels amid growing global recession fears. The cartel plans to reduce output targets by approximately 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) beginning in October. Officials purported that it was necessary to stabilize market…


Afghanistan Earthquake Kills 8, More Casualties Feared

KABUL—An earthquake in northeastern Afghanistan killed at least eight people early on Monday, and the toll could rise, the state news agency quoted a regional official as saying. The quake of magnitude 5.3 struck near the eastern city of Jalalabad in the early hours, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. “Sunday night’s earthquake has…


Russia Says Suicide Blast Kills in Afghan Capital 2 Embassy Staff

MOSCOW—Two Russian embassy staff were killed on Monday in a suicide bombing near the country’s diplomatic mission in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. It said there were also casualties among Afghan civilians. “On September 5, at 10:50 a.m. Kabul time, in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the consular section…