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“Based on previous information, we found these reports plausible”, the official told AFP, referring to a Wall Street Journal story citing US and German sources that said the extremist group had used the banned chemical weapon.

At least 11 people were killed and more than 60 wounded when a vehicle bomb exploded outside a hospital in central Kabul on Saturday afternoon, the latest in a wave of attacks to hit the Afghan capital in recent weeks.

Two days after the attack, which authorities have called the worst in Thai history, the open-air Erawan Shrine reopened to the public.

Thailand’s military junta spokesman Col. Winthai Suvaree says that this week’s deadly bombing in Bangkok was “unlikely to be linked to global terrorism”.

According to an announcement by the foreign ministry, the government lodged a “strong protest against the mortar shelling from Afghanistan in Khyber Agency this morning at around 0900 hrs, as a result of which four Pakistani soldiers embraced Shahadat and four others were...

At least two army soldiers including a Lieutenant Colonel and six terrorists were killed today in clashes between militants and security forces in the restive northwestern Pakistan.

“We have to waste time putting the dots together”.

Thailand’s police chief said Monday the investigation into last week’s bomb blast has been hampered by broken security cameras in central Bangkok along the main suspect’s getaway route. He is being charged with possessing an illegal weapon, which carries a...

Imam Baba Moussa of Cameroon’s Ngaoundere Mosque said such practices are not part of Islam, and warned parents about Boko Haram fighters who may be recruiting children.

ANKARA, TURKEY-Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated Friday that the nation will maintain an early election November. 1, after no group gained a majority from voters in June and Erdogan’s social gathering was unable to discover a coalition companion.

It was the first time in two years that the council agreed on a political statement on Syria, which French Deputy Ambassador Alexis Lamek described as “historic”.

Thailand’s national police chief Somyot Poompanmoung gave a detailed profile of the mysterious assailants, saying there were more than 10 involved and they carefully planned the attack.

Doctors said on Monday it is unclear whether he has suffered irreversible brain damage.

Seventy years after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Pope Francis on Sunday (August 9) described the bomb as a “lasting warning to humanity”.

The attack comes amid renewed violence between the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and Turkey’s security forces.