Syria’s civil war appeared to widen to the country’s mainly Kurdish northeast on Sunday, with a suicide car bomber killing several people in a rare attack on a Syrian Kurdish town near the Turkish border. Syrian state media said at least four people were killed in the blast in Qamishli, while the British-based Syrian Observatory […]
Suicide Bombing Widens Syrian Conflict to Kurdish Northeast
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 10:40 pm (UTC-5)
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Confusion Surrounds Afghan Gunbattle that Killed 2 Americans, 3 Afghans
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 8:45 pm (UTC-5)
NATO and Afghan officials have given conflicting accounts of a gunbattle that killed two Americans and three Afghan soldiers on Saturday, just days after U.S.-led coalition forces eased restrictions on joint operations with their Afghan allies. Both sides said they were investigating the firefight that happened in the Sayd Abad district of central Afghanistan’s Wardak […]
Saakashvili: Georgia Election to Decide ‘Important and Crucial’ Question
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 8:10 pm (UTC-5)
Georgian President President Mikhail Saakashvili says Monday’s parliamentary election will decide a very important and crucial question about the country’s future. Voters will choose candidates for 150 seats in parliament. Georgia has changed the constitution to give the prime minister many of the powers now held by the president. Parliament will name a new prime […]
Dozens Injured as Typhoon Marches Across Japan
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 6:05 pm (UTC-5)
A powerful typhoon has hit the Japanese mainland after injuring dozens of people and causing major blackouts across southern Okinawa. Typhoon Jelawat moved up the mainland Sunday with winds of more than 100 kilometers per hour. It was expected to hit Tokyo as it headed northward. Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported that one man was […]
Tibetan Self-Immolates in China’s Qinghai, Prompting Security Clampdown
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 4:50 pm (UTC-5)
Tibetan sources tell VOA that a Tibetan man has set himself on fire in western China’s Qinghai province, in a protest against Chinese rule, prompting a security clampdown in the area. The incident happened late Saturday in Zadoi county of Qinghai’s Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The sources in Yushu and in the Tibetan exile hub […]
Kenya Church Grenade Attack Kills Child, 2 Policemen Shot Dead
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 4:00 pm (UTC-5)
Kenyan police say a grenade attack at a church in the capital, Nairobi, Sunday killed a nine-year-old boy and wounded three other children. Police chief Moses Ombati says he believes sympathizers of al-Shabab Islamic militants were responsible. Police say the children were at a Sunday school service at Saint Polycarp Church in Nairobi when someone […]
Bomb Attacks Kill 32 Across Iraq
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 12:55 pm (UTC-5)
Iraqi officials say a wave of bombings struck Shi’ite neighborhoods, security forces and other targets across the country Sunday, killing at least 32 people and wounding scores of others. At least eight cities and towns were hit. The deadliest attack occurred in Taji, a former al-Qaida stronghold just north of the capital, Baghdad. Three car […]
Suicide Car Bomb Strikes Syrian Kurdish-Area
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 11:55 am (UTC-5)
A suicide car bomb exploded in the northern Syrian city of Qamishli Sunday, in the first such attack in the country’s Kurdish region which has been kept out of the conflict between opposition rebels and the government. Syrian state television said the afternoon blast killed at least four people and wounded scores of others. The […]
Gen. Allen: ‘Mad as Hell’ About Afghan Insider Attacks
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 10:05 am (UTC-5)
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan says he is “mad as hell” about attacks on Western troops by Afghan soldiers and police, known as “insider attacks.” General John Allen said in an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, scheduled to air late Sunday, “we are willing to sacrifice a lot for this campaign, but we are […]
Wave of Bomb Attacks Kills 26 in Iraq
Posted September 30th, 2012 at 9:45 am (UTC-5)
Iraqi officials say a wave of bombings struck Shi’ite neighborhoods, security forces and other targets across the country Sunday, killing at least 26 people and wounding scores of others. At least eight cities and towns were hit. The deadliest attack occurred in Taji, a former al-Qaida stronghold just north of the capital, Baghdad. Three car […]
