Obama: US ‘morally obliged’ to heal Laos war wounds
President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to dramatically increase US efforts to clear millions of bombs secretly dropped on tiny Laos by American planes a generation ago, saying the clean-up was a “moral obligation”. Laos became the world’s most-bombed country per capita from 1964 to 1973 as Washington launched a secret CIA-led war to cut supplies flowing to communist fighters during the Vietnam War. Much of the...
IS car bomb kills at least 7 in Baghdad
A car bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed at least seven people near a hospital in central Baghdad, police said. The blast was close to the site of a July bombing that killed more than 300 people, in the worst single bomb attack to ever hit the Iraqi capital. An explosives-laden van exploded in Baghdad’s Karrada neighbourhood a little before midnight (2100 GMT), setting several nearby shops on fire,...
Syria bomb blasts ‘kill 48’
A string of bomb attacks hit across mostly government-controlled areas of Syria on Monday, killing several dozen people including at least 35 in Tartus, state media said. At least 48 people died in the multiple blasts, with dozens also wounded in the double bombing outside of Tartus city. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the blasts, but the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group has regularly targeted several of the...
Lebanon: One killed, four injured in Bomb explosion at Ksara roundabout
A bomb blast on a road in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley today killed at least one person and wounded eight others, sources said. The number of wounded persons in the explosion that took place in Zahle rose to eight after being 4. The injured were admitted to nearby hospitals for treatment, the NNA correspondent said. Reuters reported that “the blast hit near the city of Zahle, the source added, without elaborating”. Local...
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