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HRW accuses Egypt forces, militants of Sinai 'war crimes'
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused both Egyptian security forces and jihadists of committing "war crimes" in their confrontation in the restive North Sinai region. "While Egyptian military and police forces were responsible for the majority of abuses documented in the report, extremist militants have also committed horrific crimes," the New York-based group said in a 134-page report. "Some of the abuses carried out by government forces and the militants, which this report documents, are war crimes, and their widespread and systematic nature could amount to crimes against humanity." HRW compiled the report over two years interviewing more than 50 residents of the Sinai Peninsula, in northeast Egypt, where independent media coverage is effectively banned and a state of emergency has been in force since 2013. In late 2017, North Sinai was the scene of the deadliest attack in Egypt's modern history when militants killed more than 300 worshippers at a mosque, without any group claiming .
15 security personnel injured in Jharkhand IED blast
At least 15 security personnel were injured when Maoists detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in Jharkhand on Tuesday, police said.
IEDs installed earlier but triggered today by Naxals: DGP Jharkhand
The IED blast in which 11 police personnel were injured in wee hours on Tuesday at Saraikela was installed earlier by the Naxalites purportedly to affect the election process but was triggered today, said DGP Jharkhand, DK Pandey. All the injured including 3 critically injured have been airlifted and admitted to CRPF Medical Hospital, Ranchi."IEDs were installed by Naxals to affect the election process. A joint op by CoBRA, Jharkhand Jaguar and Jharkhand Police is being done to clear the area. Anti-personnel mine was triggered by Naxals today. 11 jawans injured and 3 are critical," said DK Pandey, DGP Jharkhand.The IED blast was triggered when personnel of 209 CoBRA battalion CRPF, Jharkhand Jaguar and Jharkhand Police were in a joint operation to clear the area. Among the injured, 8 personnel are of CoBRA while 3 are of Jharkhand Police.Further, details are awaited. .
15 security personnel injured in IED blasts in Jharkhand
Fifteen security personnel were injured when Maoists triggered a series of IED blasts near Hurda forests in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharsawan district in the early hours of Tuesday, a police officer said. The blasts took place around 5 am when a joint team of the CRPF's special jungle warfare unit, CoBRA, and the police was carrying out anti-Naxal operations in the forests of Kuchai area in the district, he said. "Fifteen security men were injured when the Maoists triggered as many IED blasts. Two of the 15 injured are in a serious condition," Inspector General of Police (Operation) Ashish Batra said. The injured troops, 13 belonging to the CRPF's CoBRA battalion and the rest of the Jharkhand Armed Police and the district police, were airlifted to Ranchi, another senior officer said. The area has been cordoned off and a search operation is on to nab the culprits, he added.
11 security personnel injured in IED blast airlifted to Ranchi
Eleven police personnel who suffered injuries in an IED blast in Saraikela during a joint operation of CoBRA and Jharkhand police in the wee hours of Tuesday have been airlifted to Ranchi and admitted to a hospital for treatment.The incident occurred when the troops of 209 CoBRA battalion of CRPF and Jharkhand police were out on a special joint operation.Among the injured, 8 personnel are of CoBRA while 3 are of Jharkhand Police.Further, details are awaited. .
Civilian injured in attack dies
A civilian, who was shot at and injured by suspected militants in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, has succumbed to injuries, police said on Tuesday. Militants Monday night fired at and injured a civilian identified as Abdul Majeed Shah, a resident of Babagund area of Langate in the north Kashmir district, a police official said. He said Shah was rushed to a hospital in a critical condition, but succumbed to injuries later. Police have registered a case, the official said, adding a hunt has been launched to trace the assailants.
Jharkhand: 11 Jawans injured in IED blast, airlifted to Ranchi
Eleven police personnel were injured in an Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) blast triggered in the wee hours of Tuesday morning here in Kuchai area of Saraikella. All the injured have been airlifted for Ranchi in the morning at 6.52 am.The incident occurred when the troops of 209 CoBRA battalion of CRPF and Jharkhand police were out on special joint operations. Among the injured, 8 personnel are of CoBRA while 3 of Jharkhand Police.Further, details are awaited.
Tweeple cheers women after Zakir Musa's death
The role of a woman in the death of Kashmir's most wanted militant commander Zakir Musa, as revealed in an IANS story, has Twitter users crediting women for their positive role in fighting militancy in the Valley.
11 security personnel injured in IED blast in Jharkhand
Eleven security personnel were injured in an IED blast detonated by Maoist Guerrillas on early Tuesday, police said.
20 injured, including children in Japan knife attack
Nearly 20 people, including 16 school children were injured after a man went on a stabbing rampage in Kawasaki City, south of Japan's capital Tokyo on Tuesday.
Taliban, Afghan officials to meet in Moscow for peace talks
A delegation of Taliban officials is set to attend a two-day meeting with Afghan politicians in Moscow this week, officials confirmed on Monday, as fighting continues to rage in Afghanistan amid troubled peace talks between the United States and the militants.In a statement, the Taliban said that the group is to attend a conference marking 100 years of diplomatic relations between Afghanistan and Russia on May 28, followed by discussions with Afghan politicians about the future of the country on May 29.The 14-member Taliban delegation is led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in what will be his first international trip since being freed from a Pakistani prison last October.Meanwhile, among the Afghan politicians, former President Hamid Karzai and chairman of the High Peace Council (HPC) Mohammad Karim Khalili are expected to participate in Tuesday's meeting that focuses on ending the 18-year long war in Afghanistan.A spokesman for the Afghan president's office told Al Jazeera that the ...
Security forces begin search operation in Pulwama
Security forces started a cordon and search operation in Kareemabad village of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Tuesday.
Eight Gambian soldiers jailed over coup plot
A Gambian military court on Monday sentenced seven soldiers to nine years in jail for plotting to overthrow President Adama Barrow, and handed a three-year prison term to another. The sentences relate to events in 2017 after the ouster of strongman Yahya Jammeh, who ruled the tiny West African country with an iron fist for 22 years. The court in Yundum, about 25 kilometres from the capital Banjul, acquitted four other soldiers arrested along with the eight who got jail terms. Tribunal head Colonel Salifu Bojang said two of the 12 soldiers accused had accepted plotting "how to arrest cabinet ministers, the Chief of Defence Staff and battalion commanders of the Gambia Armed Forces." He said the soldiers had also created a WhatsApp group where they planned an attack on the West African Military Force (ECOMIG) stationed in Gambia to help keep order. Gambia has set up a Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, modelled on South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation ...
Unknown gunmen kill civilian in Kupwara
Unknown gunmen shot dead a civilian on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district.
Hundreds of prisoners start fires, wound staff in Ukraine riot
A major riot involving 500 prisoners broke out at a penitentiary in the Ukrainian city of Odessa on Monday with the inmates setting fire to buildings and wounding seven staff members, officials said. Authorities deployed several hundred National Guard troops and police to help put down the riot, an AFP photographer at the scene said. The violence broke out at the facility in the Black Sea port city as authorities planned to move several convicts to a different prison, officials said, adding that the situation was now under control. Prisoners "attacked and wounded seven employees" and set alight a fire engine and several areas including the prison library, Ukraine's prison service said. Ruslan Forostyak, a regional police spokesman, told AFP that the rioters barricaded themselves inside their living quarters. The country's rights ombudswoman, Lyudmyla Denisova, said the rioters also took three medics and three guards hostage, but later said on Facebook,"they have been freed". "The ...
Rs 65 lakh looted from milk company staffers, 2 held
In a daylight heist, Rs 65 lakh was looted from two milk company employees at gunpoint by five men in Greater Noida on Friday when they were en route a bank to deposit the money, police said. Two of the accused have been arrested over the incident that took place in the Jarcha police station area in the afternoon, the police said. "The assailants intercepted the car along the NTPC road and overpowered the milk company's cashier and car driver at gunpoint. They were carrying Rs 65 lakh in the car to deposit it in a bank in Ghaziabad," Senior Superintendent of Police, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Vaibhav Krishna said. He said the accused then took control of the car and fled with the money. A local police outpost was alerted and a barricade was put on the road at some distance to force the speeding to stop. The car halted after crashing with the barricade, the SSP said. "They immediately left the damaged car at the barricading, and fled in another car, after getting into it by intimidating the ..
NIA court convicts four members of Bodo insurgent group for 2014 attack in Kokrajhar
Four members of Bodo insurgent group NDFB(S) were convicted by a special NIA court in Guwahati Monday for a terror attack in Assam's Kokrajhar district in 2014 in which five tribals were killed, officials said. Bina Basumatary, Jayanta Mushahary, Dwithai Basumatary and Khanda Daimary were sentenced to five years imprisonment and a fine was imposed on each of them, an NIA spokesperson said here. "?The case pertains to the terrorist attack on 23.12.2014 by NDFB(S) cadres upon innocent people of Pakiriguri village under Serfanguri Police Station in Kokrajhar district of Assam, in which five adivasis were killed and another five sustained grievous injuries due to indiscriminate firing by the terrorist group," he said. He said one of the accused Gautam Mahalia had earlier pleaded guilty in April 2019. "He was sentenced to 4.5 years. Trial against 10 other accused persons who are in judicial custody will continue," the spokesperson said.
Armed miscreants loot Rs 60 lakh
Armed miscreants looted Rs 60 lakh from two persons near the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) here on Monday, a senior police officer said. The two persons, staff of rice businessman were on their way to deposit the money in a bank branch when six miscreants riding three bikes snatched the money from them at gun point, City Superintendent of Police (East) Rajendra Kumar Bheel told PTI. The miscreants looted the money and fled from the spot, the SP said, adding police are conducting raids to nab the culprits.
Maoist activists arrested in Nepal as nationwide strike disrupts life
Several Maoist activists were arrested in Nepal as a general strike called by an outlawed communist group on Monday disrupted normal life in the country, a day after a series of explosions rocked the capital Kathmandu, killing at least four people. Educational institutions and business establishments remained shut in major cities while traffic was thin due to the strike called by the Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)-led Communist Party of Nepal to protest against the killing of its cadre during an encounter a couple of months ago. Just a day ahead of the nationwide strike, a series of bombs exploded at different parts of the capital city, killing four people and injuring seven others. Police said they suspect that the outlawed group that once split from the ruling Communist Party was responsible for the blasts as its members have been protesting the arrests of their supporters. The bombings were the deadliest since the government imposed a ban on the activities of Chand-led outfit on March
Rohingya killings: Myanmar frees jailed soldiers early
Myanmar has granted an early release to seven soldiers, jailed for killing 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown.