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News Hour: Islamist rebels and jihadists in Syria are guilty of war crimes, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday, accusing them of “a chilling wave of abductions, torture and summary killings”, reports BSS. The...

News Hour: Israel has approved hundreds of new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an official said on Monday, in a move denounced by UN chief Ban Ki-moon and likely to further raise tensions following...

News Hour: Haitian senate candidate Guy Philippe was the mastermind behind an attack on a police station that left one officer dead and two injured, police announced on Monday, reports BSS. “This attack was planned during...

News Hour: A barrage of rockets targeted a camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group near Baghdad on Monday, injuring several people, an Iraqi security spokesman and the exiles said, reports BSS. The People’s Mujahedeen...

News Hour: A suicide bomber has attacked the Saudi city of Medina, close to the Prophet’s Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, according to local media reports. The bomber detonated his device as security officers were breaking...

News Hour: Two explosions shook the city of Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia, where many of the kingdom’s Shi’ite Muslim minority live, and witnesses said body parts could be seen in the area of the blast....

News Hour: People cutting across their social background and foreign nationals in Dhaka, Bangladesh today rallied for the second day around the scene of Friday night’s hostage massacre in Gulshan to pay respect to the terror...

News Hour: Malaysian police said on Monday that, a recent hand grenade attack on a restaurant was linked to the Islamic State group, after initially saying the incident was not terror related, reports BSS. “There were...

News Hour: At least 213 people were killed in Sunday’s Baghdad suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group, officials said, making it one of the deadliest ever militant attacks in Iraq, reports BSS. The suicide...

News Hour: A suicide bomber blew himself up near the American consulate in Saudi Arabia’s western city of Jeddah in the early hours of US Independence Day on Monday, wounding two security officers, reports BSS. The...