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Today in History: October 7, surprise attacks spark Israel-Hamas War
Today is Monday, Oct. 7, the 281st day of 2024. There are 85 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants launched air and ground attacks on Israel, killing nearly 1,200 and taking more than 250 hostages. The attacks, followed hours...
Survivors grapple with aid cuts and the Taliban a year after massive Afghan earthquake
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — People had just seconds to flee their homes when the terrifying sound of earth cracking open reverberated across western Afghanistan's Herat province. Nobody knows for sure how many people died in a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Oct. 7, 2023, or in the...
Militants kill 6 Pakistani soldiers in a shootout
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Militants killed six Pakistani soldiers in a shootout, the army said Saturday, the latest unrest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan where armed groups including the Pakistani Taliban are active. The troops died in an overnight operation...
Pakistani security forces kill 6 insurgents in a raid in the southwest
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani security forces have killed at least six insurgents in a raid on their hideout in the country's restive southwest, officials said Wednesday. The raid targeted members of the Baloch Liberation Army in Harnai, a district in Balochistan province, which...
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange says he pleaded 'guilty to journalism' in order to be freed
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that he was freed after years of incarceration because he "pled guilty to journalism.” In his first public remarks since he was released from prison in June, Assange gave evidence of the impact of his...
Gunmen kill 6 people, including a local chief of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, in Iran towns
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Unidentified gunmen killed six people in two separate attacks Tuesday in the same province in southern Iran, including a local chief of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, state TV reported. The head of a town council and two volunteer members of the Guard...
Pakistani security forces say they killed 8 militants in a raid in the restive northwest
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces killed eight militants in an overnight raid in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the volatile northwestern region that borders Afghanistan, the military said Thursday. Troops also seized weapons and ammunition from...
Taliban who banned women from public spaces say no one faces discrimination in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban said Thursday it was absurd to accuse them of gender discrimination and other human rights violations, as four countries vow to hold Afghanistan’s rulers accountable under international law for their treatment of women and girls. Australia,...
25 people killed in days of clashes between Shiites and Sunni Muslims in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — At least 25 people have been killed in days of clashes between armed Shiites and Sunni Muslims over a lingering land dispute in northwest Pakistan, officials said Wednesday. The clashes — which started over the weekend in Kurram, a district in...
House approves GOP resolution condemning Biden and Harris over Afghanistan withdrawal
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday voted to condemn President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, capping their work in Washington with legislation that carried no legal weight but drove a political point ahead of the...
