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Bomb attack kills 9 in Syria Golan Heights village

Damascus - Muslimchronicle

A suicide car bomb attack killed nine people in a government-held village in Syria's Golan Heights on Friday, state media said, reporting clashes between government forces and rebels afterwards. State news agency SANA said the car bomb hit the outskirts of the village of Hader, which lies near the disengagement line that divides the Syrian-controlled part of the Golan fromRead more

Killing of Maltese journalist silences anti-corruption voice

Malta - Muslimchronicle

A few hundred meters from the home of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, in the field where the flaming wreckage of her car landed after being blown off the road by an assassin’s bomb, a plastic pen is stuck into the ground near a Maltese flag. A hand-written note among bunches of flowers nearby reads: “What you wrote andRead more

Roadside bomb kills seven outside Somali capital Mogadishu

Mogadishu - Muslimchronicle

A roadside bomb killed at least seven people on Sunday — mostly women farmers — in an area outside the Somali capital dominated by insurgents who have defied public protests to end years of violence, residents and the army said. A truck bombing in Mogadishu last weekend killed at least 358 people, with 56 people still missing. Almost all ofRead more

276 killed, 300 injured in Mogadishu truck bomb: official

Mogadishu - Muslimchronicle

Some 276 people have been killed and 300 injured in a truck bomb attack over the weekend in Mogadishu, the Somali ministry of information announced early Monday. "Somalia Federal government confirmed that 276 people were killed in the blast... and 300 others wounded people were admitted at the different hospitals in Mogadishu," the press release said. Source:AFPRead more

Grief descends on Somalia as death toll from truck bomb attack rises to 231

Somalia - Muslimchronicle

The most powerful bomb blast ever witnessed in Somalia’s capital killed at least 231 people with more than 275 injured, a senator said Sunday, making it the deadliest single attack in this Horn of Africa nation. The toll could continue to rise. Abshir Abdi Ahmed cited doctors at overwhelmed hospitals he visited in Mogadishu a day after a truck bombRead more

Arrest at LaGuardia Airport disrupts travel

New York - Muslimchronicle

A 70-year-old passenger who was arrested at New York’s LaGuardia Airport after authorities say he threatened a ticket agent has pleaded not guilty to making a terrorist threat. John Park of Farmington, Michigan, was released without bail after his arraignment late Saturday. Authorities say Park became irate when he was told there was a $50 fee to check his bagRead more

Daesh claims deadly suicide attack in Syrian capital

Beirut - Muslimchronicle

Daesh on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a pair of suicide bombings in the Syrian capital that killed 17 civilians and policemen the previous day. In Monday’s bombings, two men attacked a police station in the Al-Midan neighborhood with several bombs, before one of them blew himself up, according to Syria’s Interior Minister Lt. Gen. Mohammad Al-Shaar. He said the otherRead more

Seven killed by car bomb explosion in Mogadishu — police

Mogadishu - Muslimchronicle

Seven people were killed when a car bomb exploded near a bus stop in a district of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, police said. It was not yet clear who had carried out the bombing. The Islamist group Al-Shabab has frequently carried out bombings in Mogadishu and other towns, seeking to destabilize the western-allied central government. “I have counted sevenRead more