Islamic State group claims responsibility for bombing at Afghan bank and says it targeted Taliban

ISLAMABAD — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing that targeted people trying to collect their salaries at a bank in southern Afghanistan. The bombing Thursday at a branch of New Kabul Bank in Kandahar city killed three people and wounded 12 others. All of the victims had gathered there to collect … Read more

Under bombing in eastern Ukraine and disabled by illness, an unknown painter awaits his fate

SLOVIANSK, Ukraine — Mykola Soloviov, 88, is a painter the world does not know. His landscapes of eastern Ukraine, records of a lost time, lie tucked away in a modest home under threat of Russian attack. Soloviov can’t hear or walk and barely speaks. Disabled since a 2017 stroke, he spends his days bedridden in … Read more

Biden says ‘indiscriminate bombing’ in Gaza is costing Israel support

Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave President Biden offered sharp criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conduct of the war on Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday, suggesting that Israel’s closest ally and biggest donor is souring on a campaign that has killed thousands of Palestinians and sparked a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. … Read more

Philippines Bombing: President Blames Militants For Killings

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president blamed “foreign terrorists” for a bomb blast that killed four people Sunday, wounded dozens of other Catholic worshippers in the south and sparked a security alarm, including in the capital, Manila, where state forces were put on alert. The suspected bomb, which the police said was made from a … Read more

Israeli bombing of Gaza resumes as pause for hostage release ends

Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Despite pleas by world leaders, the seven-day humanitarian pause in fighting in Gaza ended on Friday with aerial bombardment and rocket fire, with Israel and Hamas blaming the other for the renewed hostilities. Just hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken departed from Tel Aviv, … Read more

Jerry Doolittle, press attaché outraged by U.S. bombing of Laos, dies at 90

Add to your saved storiesSave Jerry Doolittle, a onetime Washington Post humorist whose eclectic career took him to Laos as a U.S. press attaché who later helped disclose the full scope of a secret U.S. bombing campaign, and then to the White House as a speechwriter tasked with crafting jokes for President Jimmy Carter, died … Read more

Thousands dead in Israeli bombing of Gaza. Here’s one woman’s story.

Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave The morning of Oct. 22 was punctuated by loud explosions in the neighborhood of Tel-al-Hawa in Gaza City. Shrouq Aila picked up her 11-month daughter and moved to the ground floor of her in-laws’ home, holding the hand of her husband, Roshdi Sarraj. Minutes later, everything turned … Read more

Thousands rally in Pakistan against Israel’s bombing in Gaza, chanting anti-American slogans

ISLAMABAD — Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s main politico-religious party rallied in the capital, Islamabad, Sunday against Israel’s bombing of Palestinians in Gaza, chanting anti-American slogans and accusing the U.S. of “backing the aggressor.” The extreme right party, Jamaat-e-Islami, had announced a march from Islamabad’s famous Abpara intersection to the US embassy in the high-security … Read more

Israel’s bombing of Gaza undercuts the West’s moralism and hypocrisy

Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. Last week, President Biden delivered an impassioned speech linking the conflicts in … Read more

A car bombing at a Somali military facility kills 6 people, including 4 soldiers, police say

Police in Somalia say a suicide car bomb exploded at a military facility on the outskirts of the capital and killed at least six people ByThe Associated Press October 21, 2023, 11:51 AM MOGADISHU, Somalia — An explosives-laden car detonated at a military facility on the outskirts of Somalia’s capital Saturday and killed at least … Read more