A bomb exploded on a minibus packed with passengers outside the holy city of Karbala Friday night, killing 12 people and wounding five others, Iraqi security officials and the state news agency said. The explosion occurred as the bus was passing through an Iraqi army checkpoint, about 10 kilometers (6 ...
Rare protests broke out on Friday in Cairo and other Egyptian cities calling for the removal of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi but police quickly dispersed them, AFP journalists reported. Dozens of people joined night-time demonstrations around Tahrir Square — the epicenter of the 2011 revolution that toppled the country’s long-time ...
