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Pakistan to launch 'full-scale' operation to free train hostages
AFP, Published on 12/03/2025
» SIBI — Pakistan security forces were set to launch a "full-scale operation" on Wednesday to free train passengers taken hostage by militants, including suicide bombers, officials said.
Militant behind Kabul airport suicide bombing arrested
AFP, Published on 05/03/2025
» WASHINGTON - An Islamic State operative accused of planning a suicide bombing outside Kabul airport during the chaotic US military withdrawal in 2021 has been arrested, President Donald Trump has said.
Iran arrests four over assault linked to poisonings
AFP, Published on 02/03/2023
» Iranian authorities arrested four people on Thursday in connection with an assault on a woman outside a girls’ school targeted in a wave of poisoning attacks, a news agency said.
More schoolgirls poisoned in Iran
Published on 01/03/2023
» More than 100 students were hospitalised in Iran after a new spate of suspected gas attacks on girls’ schools on Wednesday, media outlets in the Islamic republic reported.
Poison attacks on Iranian girls cause alarm
Published on 28/02/2023
» Hundreds of Iranian girls in different schools have suffered “mild poison” attacks over recent months, the health minister said, with some politicians suggesting they could have been targeted by religious groups opposed to girls’ education.
Iran activists brush off claim morality police abolished
AFP, Published on 05/12/2022
» PARIS: Campaigners backing Iran's protest movement on Monday dismissed a claim that the Islamic republic is disbanding its notorious morality police, insisting there was no change to its restrictive dress rules for women.
Protest-hit Iran abolishes morality police
AFP, Published on 04/12/2022
» TEHRAN: Iran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country's strict female dress code, local media said Sunday.
Iran authorities reviewing hijab law
Published on 03/12/2022
» Iran’s parliament and the judiciary are reviewing a law that requires women to cover their heads, and which triggered more than two months of deadly protests, the country’s attorney-general says.
Prisoners' lives 'at risk' as fire erupts at notorious Tehran jail
AFP, Published on 16/10/2022
» PARIS: The lives of prisoners are at grave risk in Evin prison in Tehran, rights groups warned Sunday, after a fire erupted at the notorious jail as the protest movement sparked by Mahsa Amini's death entered a fifth week.
Fire and clashes at Iran's notorious Evin prison amid Mahsa Amini protests
AFP, Published on 16/10/2022
» PARIS - A fire and clashes erupted at Tehran's notorious Evin prison Saturday night as the protest movement sparked by Mahsa Amini's death in custody entered a fifth week.