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Iran Launches Missile Strikes in Iraq and Syria

16Jan

By Aqsa AzamNo Comments

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Iran Launches Missile Strikes in Iraq and Syria

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard launched missiles at targets in Iraq and Syria. They claimed they were against "anti-Iranian" groups. The US condemned the attacks as "reckless" and tensions remain high in the region. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has conducted missile strikes targeting what it claims were Israeli "spy headquarters" in Iraq's Kurdish region and alleged ISIL (ISIS) sites in northern Syria. The IRGC stated that it aimed to defend its security and counter-terrorism. This attack on Iraq and Syria comes at a wrong time when the world is already facing a biggest humanitarian crises in the region. The attack in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region. It resulted in at least four deaths and six injuries, according to the r...

Qatar donated FIFA Village Cabins to Earthquake victims

17Feb

By Aqsa AzamNo Comments

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Qatar donated FIFA Village Cabins to Earthquake victims

Qatar donated 10,000 cabins and caravans from last year's FIFA World Cup to provide shelter for survivors of the Turkish and Syrian earthquakes, officials said. The gas-rich Gulf nation says it had always planned to donate the mobile homes. They were needed to help house some of the 1.4 million fans who descended on the small country during soccer's biggest tournament. An initial batch of 350 structures was shipped out on Sunday, the Qatar Fund for Development said. The magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 quakes that struck nine hours apart on Feb. 6 killed more than 35,000 people in southeastern Turkey and war-torn northern Syria. The toll is expected to climb even further as search and rescue teams find more bodies. Also See; Rescue 1122 got appreciation during its rescue operations in Turkey ...

7.8 magnitude earthquake shattered Turkey and Syria

6Feb

By Aqsa AzamNo Comments

Global

7.8 magnitude earthquake shattered Turkey and Syria

A major earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck central Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday. Killing more than 1900 people and injuring hundreds as buildings collapsed across the region. Triggering searches for survivors in the rubble. A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria early Monday. Toppling hundreds of buildings and killing more than 1,900 people. Hundreds were still believed to be trapped under rubble. The toll was expected to rise as rescue workers searched mounds of wreckage in cities and towns across the area. On both sides of the border, residents jolted out of sleep by the pre-dawn quake rushed outside on a cold, rainy, and snowy night. Buildings were reduced to piles of pancaked floors, and major aftershocks or new quakes. Including one n...

UK court urged to treat ‘IS bride’ as a child trafficking victim

22Nov

By Muhammad Dastageer ShamsNo Comments

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UK court urged to treat ‘IS bride’ as a child trafficking victim

A woman lost her British citizenship after enlisting in the militant Islamic State (IS) movement as an ‘IS bride’ in Syria. She was the target of propaganda in the British court recently. The court is urging to treat alleged women like a victim of child trafficking. In 2015, she was 15 years old when she and two school friends left their east London home to travel to Syria. She married an IS fighter and gave birth to three children in Syria. However, none of her newborns survived. British journalists later found her in a camp in Syria in February 2019. During her initial interviews, she appeared to have no remorse whatsoever. This gesture outraged people to the core. People declared her an "IS bride" and stripped her of her British citizenship. This move left her stranded in Syria's Ro...

Erdogan threatens ground operation into Syria

22Nov

By Muhammad Dastageer ShamsNo Comments

Global

Erdogan threatens ground operation into Syria

Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to launch a ground operation into Syria on Monday. He made the threat in response to cross-border airstrikes on Kurdish positions and lethal fire on Turkey. Erdogan talked to the media after a flight back from Qatar after attending the World Cup opening. He told the press that Turkey had only limited this operation to only an aerial operation. The Turkish president has threatened a new ground military operation into northern Syria since May. Turkish retaliated only a week after a bombing in Istanbul that left six dead and many injured. Later the agencies claimed that Ankara to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attributed the attack. After this Turkey struck dozens of targets overnight in northern Syria and northern Iraq. The Nov. 13 bombing also left 81...