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Several people wounded in bomb attack on police building in southeastern province of Mardin, Reuters reports. A car bomb has targeted a police station in Turkey’s southeastern province of Mardin, state broadcaster NTV has said. According to the Reuters news agency, many people were wounded in Wednesday’s attack. (Aljazeera)

At least 11 people killed and several wounded in bomb attack on police bus in the central district of Beyazit. A bomb attack targeting a police vehicle in a central Istanbul district has killed at least eleven people, including seven members of the police force, the city’s governor has said. …

David Gilkey, an NPR photojournalist who chronicled pain and beauty in war and conflict, was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday along with NPR’s Afghan interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna. David and Zabihullah were on assignment for the network traveling with an Afghan army unit, which came under attack killing David and Zabihullah. …

The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are making slow and steady progress, giving them momentum for an expected tough fight ahead, Army Brig. Gen. Charles H. Cleveland said today in Kabul. “It’s still obviously very early in the fighting season [with] a long way to go,” Cleveland, Resolute Support’s …

BIRMINGHAM: Migration from Asia and the Middle East to Western Europe could provide the kind of vibrant boost to arts and culture as movement from India and Pakistan did to UK food tastes over the past 40 years, a leading artist and academic has said. Professor Bashir Makhoul, practising artist …

US president calls apparent death an “important milestone” after several drones attack his Mansoor’s car in Pakistan. US President Barack Obama has said Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a US strike. In a statement on Monday, he called Mansour’s death an “important milestone”. “We have removed …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Addressing a pre-ministerial press conference in Brussels on Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance foreign ministers due to meet on Thursday and Friday where they discuss future support for Afghanistan. “We will discuss our future support for Afghanistan, including plans for our Resolute …

A car bomb in a predominantly Shia district of the Iraqi capital has killed at least 50 people and wounded at least 100 others, police sources told Al Jazeera. An SUV packed with explosives blew up near a beauty salon in a bustling market at rush hour in Baghdad’s Sadr …

KABUL: Ali Haidar Gilani, the son of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Yusuf Reza Gilani, was rescued during a joint U.S-Afghan operation in Ghazni province on Tuesday morning. Gilani had been held hostage for three years by a suspected al-Qaeda-affiliated group. The Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Omar Zakhilwal, on his Facebook …

The death penalty will deliver neither the justice that victims deserve nor the security that Afghanistan seeks, Amnesty International said today. Six men were executed on May 8, 2016 after they were convicted for their involvement in a series of high-profile violent attacks – including the 2011 killing of former …