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Attacker reportedly walked into a facility housing a news agency and cultural center

Turkish Red Crescent maintained humanitarian aid whole year

Suicide bomber blamed in Kabul bloodshed

Boko Haram ‘forced’ 135 children into suicide bombings

Turkey condemns ‘heinous’ attack

Arrest warrants issued for 23 FETO suspects

7,000 aid trucks sent to Syria in 2017

By Shadi Khan Saif

KABUL - A suspected suicide attack at a facility hosting a news agency and a cultural center in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday has claimed multiple lives.Nasrat Rehimi, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, told Anadolu Agency more than 40 people, mostly civilians, were killed and several others injured.

“Most of them are civilians, boys and girls who had gathered today for a social gathering at the Tabyan Cultural Center,” he said.According to local broadcaster Tolo News, the cultural center had links to Iran. The office of the Afghan Voice Agency (AVA), which also housed a cultural facility in the western Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood...

ISTANBUL - Turkey condemned the “heinous terrorist attack” which killed at least 40 people in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Thursday.“We learned with deep sorrow that a terrorist attack perpetrated today at a cultural center in Kabul killed and wounded many Afghan brothers and sisters,” said a Foreign Ministry statement.The statement also wished a “speedy recovery to the wounded,” and sent

“condolences to the brotherly Government and people of Afghanistan.”Nasrat Rehimi, deputy spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, told Anadolu Agency that at least 40 people, mostly civilians, were killed and 30 others injured.The suicide attack took place at a facility hosting a news agency and a cultural center in the western Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood at around 10.30 a.m...

ANKARA - A total of 27 people were convicted and sentenced to prison on Wednesday in southern and southeastern provinces of Turkey for being members of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind last year’s defeated coup, according to a security source.In the southeastern province

of Adiyaman, the 2nd High Criminal court gave separate jail terms of nine and 12 years to two lawyers, said the source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.In the southern province of Adana, a former police chief was sentenced to nine years in jail for being a member of an armed terrorist...

HATAY - The Turkish Red Crescent sent nearly 7,000 truck-loads of humanitarian aid to Syria in the year of 2017 alone, a Turkish Red Crescent official told Anadolu Agency.Hakan Sari, the head of the Turkish Red Crescent’s Border Assistance, said Turkey’s largest humanitarian organization had maintained its aid support to all those in need within Turkey and Syria since 2011.“As the Turkish Red Crescent, our efforts in meeting peoples’ needs continue to the best of our capacity. This year we have tried to reach out not only to the people in areas where Operation Euphrates Shield took place but also those in

Idlib. We have sent Syria nearly 7,000 truck-loads of aid that we collected inside and outside Turkey,” Sari explained, adding that the aid included not only food and sanitary supplies but also formula for children, medicine, medical and stationery supplies as well as variety of humanitarian aid materials.“During Eid al-Adha [the feast of sacrifice], we distributed meat to thousands of families, with three kilos given to each family. We carried out special projects for Ramadan. We distributed fast-breaking menus to 10,700 houses per day [throughout the month of fasting],” Sari added.He also mentioned... MORE DETAILS

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By Felix Nkambeh Tih

ANKARA - UNICEF on Thursday warned of an alarming surge in the number of children being used in conflict zones around the world as parties to conflicts ignore international laws designed to protect the most vulnerable.

The UN body said in a statement that in northern Nigeria and Cameroon, Boko Haram had forced at least 135 children to act as suicide bombers in 2017, almost five times the number in 2016.‘’Children are being targeted and exposed to attacks and brutal violence in their homes, schools and...

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