War & Conflict
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Blast kills at least 21 in Pakistan vegetable market
Jan 21, 2017News Hour: An explosion in a busy vegetable market killed at least 21 people on Saturday in Pakistan’s remote northwestern tribal region, an official said, in an attack jointly claimed by the Pakistani Taliban and a... -
El Chapo, if convicted, would likely do time in ‘Supermax’ prison
Jan 21, 2017News Hour: If Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, known as much for jail breaks as narcotics trafficking, ends up convicted in U.S. court, there is little doubt where he will spend the rest of... -
Three badly hurt in shooting at American college in northern Mexico
Jan 18, 2017News Hour: A student opened fire at an American school in northern Mexico on Wednesday, gravely injuring two students and a teacher, the state’s security spokesman said, but there were no confirmed deaths. Local media had... -
Iran’s Zarif wants cooperation with Saudi over Syria and Yemen
Jan 18, 2017News Hour: Iran and Saudi Arabia should be able to work together to help end conflicts in Syria and Yemen, after successfully cooperating over Lebanon last year, Iran’s foreign minister said. “I do not see any... -
Death toll rises to 33 in car bomb attack at Mali army camp
Jan 18, 2017News Hour: At least 33 people were killed and dozens injured on Wednesday when a vehicle packed with explosives detonated at a military camp in Mali’s northern city of Gao, a source from the United Nations’... -
Israeli soldiers shoot dead a Palestinian assailant
Jan 17, 2017News Hour: Israeli troops on Tuesday shot dead a Palestinian who had tried to stab a soldier at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, a military spokeswoman said. “Responding to the imminent threat, forces fired... -
NATO concerned about Trump ‘obsolete’ remark, Germany says
Jan 17, 2017News Hour: Germany’s Foreign Minister said on Monday that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s comments that NATO was obsolete had aroused concern across the 28-member alliance. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaking after a meeting with alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg... -
Dozens reported dead as Syrian army fights Islamic State
Jan 17, 2017News Hour: Fighting between Islamic State and the Syrian army has killed dozens since Saturday in Deir al-Zor, where the militant group has launched an assault to capture a government enclave in the city, a monitoring... -
Syrian rebels to attend Kazakhstan peace talks
Jan 16, 2017News Hour: Syrian rebel groups have decided to attend peace talks backed by Russia and Turkey in Kazakhstan in a bid to check Iranian influence over the war, rebel officials said on Monday. Their decision is... -
A semblance of normality despite war, In parts of Mosul
Jan 15, 2017News Hour: In some parts of Mosul, you can almost forget that a war is being waged over the city between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants who still control more than half of it –...
