Gunmen

Alleged Colombian ELN rebels kidnap oil engineer

Bogota - Emirates voice

Gunmen claiming to belong to Colombia's last rebel group kidnapped an engineer in the country's east, police said Saturday, after peace talks broke down between the ELN rebels and Bogota. Rafael Andres Rian, a 41-year-old Colombian petroleum engineer was abducted from an office in Saravena, near the border with Venezuela, by "two masked men with pistols who identified themselves as membersRead more

Gunmen storm Kabul TV station in ongoing attack

Kabul - Emirates Voice

Gunmen stormed a television station in Kabul Tuesday and many staff were still in the building, an employee told AFP, describing the attack as ongoing. "I saw three attackers on security cameras entering the TV station building. They first shot the guard and then entered the building. They started throwing grenades and firing," said Shamshad TV reporter Faisal Zaland, whoRead more

Crime unit hit in second suicide attack in Yemen's Aden

Aden - Emirates Voice

A criminal investigations unit was struck in a second suicide attack Sunday in the Yemeni government stronghold of Aden, after an assault on a security headquarters killed five soldiers, an official said. Gunmen stormed the crime unit and set files and archives on fire as a suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt in the entry to the building, the securityRead more

74 dead, including 7 Iranians, in south Iraq attack

Nasiriyah - Emirates Voice

Gunmen and suicide car bombers killed at least 74 people, including seven Iranians, near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya on Thursday, an official said, giving an updated toll. "There are now 74 deaths and 93 wounded," Abdel Hussein al-Jabri, deputy health chief for the mainly Shiite province of Dhiqar, said of the attack claimed by the Islamic State group.Read more

4 killed in Pakistan's Karachi

Abu Dhabi - Emirates Voice

At least four persons, including three policemen, were killed and another was injured on Friday evening when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a police vehicle in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, police said. Raja Umar Khattab, a senior police official of the counter-terrorism department, said the incident took place when a group of six gunmen riding on three motorcyclesRead more

Philippines to extend martial law in south to year end

Manila - Emirates Voice

The Philippine Congress on Saturday voted overwhelmingly to extend martial law in the south until the end of the year. The legislators backed President Rodrigo Duterte's call for an extension in the Mindanao region to deal with Islamist gunmen who have occupied parts of a southern city for two months. Duterte had previously imposed a 60-day martial law over MindanaoRead more

Gunmen kill senior official of Iraqi football club

Abu Dhabi - Emirates Voice

Unidentified gunmen on Monday shot dead a senior official of one of the leading soccer clubs of the Iraqi premier league, along with four of his family members, a police source said. Unknown armed men stormed the house of Colonel Basheer al-Hamdani, administrative director of al-Jawiyah (Air Force) soccer club, in the early morning and killed him along with hisRead more