Haiti has been reeling from a worsening conflict for years, where armed gangs control most of the capital Port-au-Prince and other regions where they indulge in kidnappings, rapes, murders and more. The gang shot people and set fire to dozens of homes and vehicles on Thursday.
Al-Qaida took responsibility for the attack, announcing in a statement that it had seized “complete control over a militia position” in Barsalogho, a key location in Kaya. The town is strategically important as security forces have used it to defend against jihadis.
The head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Mohamed Amin, said Collins Jumaisi Khalusha had confessed to killing 42 women, including his wife, since 2022. They gave no evidence to support his claim of killing 42.
The massacre was a major escalation in ongoing tribal violence in the region. Images had emerged of bodies being loaded onto a police truck, ABC reported.
Burkina Faso's government was overthrown by the military junta, which promised to take care of the perilous security situation of the country. Despite that, the West African nation continues to grapple with Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands and displaced millions.
Journalists saw the bodies of at least nine people in civilian clothes who appeared to have been killed at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs.
The gunman, identified as 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole, a former employee. He allegedly died by suicide after the shooting on late Thursday night at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis.
A single-member judicial commission has completed probe into the 2014 Army Public School massacre and is likely to submit its report to the Supreme Court by the end of this month, a media report said on Thursday.
April 13, 1919--The day which is marked on every Indian's mind for the painful memory it evokes. Today, India commemorates 101 years of the ghastly Jallianwala Bagh incident in the Sikh holy city Amritsar.
Family and friends said goodbye Saturday to the last victim of a cartel ambush that killed nine American women and children from a Mormon community in northern Mexico where cartels have disrupted an otherwise peaceful, rural existence.
A new novel focuses on the Naxal movement and narrates with vivid details the 1971 Cossipore-Baranagar massacre in West Bengal in which several Naxalite youths were killed allegedly by police and Congress activists.
A Bihar court on Tuesday sentenced 10 persons to death and three others to life imprisonment in connection with the Senari massacre in which 34 people were killed by Maoists in 1999.
Washington: The couple who carried out the deadly California massacre that claimed 14 lives may have been radicalised to commit an act of terror, President Barack Obama said today, asserting that Americans will not be
Srinagar: Seventeen years after 19 members of three families were kil1ed in Jammu and Kashmir's Salian village, survivors and relatives of the victims on Monday protested here, accusing the CBI of "inaction and cover-up".On the
New Delhi: Sixteen policemen were acquitted by a court here on Saturday of the charges of murder and other crimes in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre case in which 42 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh's
Raipur: Maoist guerrillas Monday gunned down 13 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers returning after a search operation in Chhattisgarh, officials said.Additional Director General of Police R.K. Vij told IANS that the dead included two
Guatemala City: A military spokesman said that nine members of a family, including a baby and a young girl, were shot to death in a remote part of northern Guatemala.Army spokesman Ismael Cifuentes said that
Patna: The Patna High Court today acquitted all the 26 men convicted in the Laxmanpur Bathe massacre of 1997 citing lack of evidence and witnesses. A lower court had convicted all these 26 accused and
New Delhi, Aug 6: The Delhi High Court today sought Uttar Pradesh government's response to Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy's plea seeking further probe to ascertain the alleged role of Finance Minister P Chidambaram in
Newtown, Connecticut, Dec 15 : A gunman killed 26 people, including 20 young children, at a U.S. school where his mother worked Friday as youngsters cowered in their classrooms and trembled helplessly to the sound
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