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11 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Al-Jazeera ISTANBUL/ DAMASCUS/ MELBOURNE: Independent sources claimed that hundreds of female Kurdish female fighters have been martyred in dozens of Turkish air and other strikes and attacks during the last 62 hours whereas over 70,000 more Syrians have displaced and become refugees while …

Hyderabad Oct 11 (PMI): In a joint special operation the Team of Cyberabad Police Commissionerate and officers of Madhapur Zone have arrested (4) persons belonging to a notorious Interstate Criminal Gang of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand States. This gang has indulged in Ten (10) burglaries in houses during day time …

09 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies HALLE/ MELBOURNE: A shooting in the eastern German city of Halle has left at least two people dead. Another two are thought to be seriously wounded in hospital. One person was detained by police following the attack, which German media said took …

09 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISTANBUL/ DAMASCUS: Turkey has boosted its forces on the Syrian border ahead of a long-threatened incursion that could target Kurdish-led forces allied to the US. Troops would cross into Syria “shortly”, a presidential aide said. Turkey wants to create a “safe zone” …

08 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri RIYADH/ MELBOURNE: Last month, the Saudi Kingdom announced the launch of a new tourist visa program, opening up the country to mass tourism for the first time and now, Saudi Arabia has gone one step further in its bid to encourage international tourists. Unmarried …

06 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri RIYADH/ TEHRAN/ ISLAMABAD/ MELBOURNE: The US President Donald Trump has not only surprisingly refused the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s (KSA) Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman (MBS) for any military action against Iran but also advised to seek its own solution to the conflict while …

‘No magic solution’ to problems: Mahdi 04 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri BAGHDAD/ WASHINGTON/ MELBOURNE: The entire world has not only condemned the violent protests in Iraq but also rejected the ‘Jewish Agenda’ to sabotage billions of people’s traditional annual Arbaeen Walk from Najaf to Karbala around 82 kilometers in …

03 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies PARIS/ MELBOURNE: ‘A very Wuss, untrained, inexperienced, unarmed and oppressed-looking knife-wielding assailant’ has slaughtered at least four ‘well-equipped and armed commandos’ during an attack at the central police headquarters in the French capital, Paris, while the worst performance, incompetency, immaturity, inexperience  and …

03 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri + BBC LONDON/ MELBOURNE: A London court has ruled that £35m ($42m) held in a UK bank account must go to the descendants of an Indian royal, and not to Pakistan. The dispute began in 1948 when the last Nizam (king) of Hyderabad Deccan …

01 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri RABAT/ MELBOURNE: A Moroccan journalist has been sentenced to a year in prison for premarital sex and having an abortion, in a case activists say is part of a crackdown on critical reporters. Hajar Raissouni was arrested with her fiancé as they left a …