A man identified by the Israeli and Egyptian authorities as an Egyptian security officer entered Israeli territory on Saturday and killed three Israeli soldiers in two separate shooting incidents in a remote desert area along the border between the two countries, according to an initial investigation by the Israeli military. Many details remained murky hours […]
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Three Killed After Suspected Shooting and Stabbing in Japan
A man armed with a rifle and knife killed a woman and two police officers and injured another person on Thursday in the central Japanese city of Nakano before fleeing and shutting himself inside a home for several hours, the police said. It was an astonishing burst of violence in Japan, where gun-related homicides and […]
Germany Shooting: Several Killed in Attack on Jehovah’s Witness Hall
BERLIN — Several people were killed and several more were injured in a shooting in a Jehovah’s Witness hall in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday night, in a rare mass shooting in the country. The police, including tactical and bomb disposal units, were on the scene late Thursday, and the injured were rushed to local hospitals. […]
6 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Raid in West Bank Clashes
The Israeli military carried out a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday that it said was aimed at arresting a suspect in the fatal shooting of two Israeli brothers recently. In the spiraling violence, six Palestinians were killed, according to Palestinian health officials, and Israel said one of them was […]
Mohandas K. Gandhi, affectionately called “Bapu,” or father, was killed on Jan. 30, 1948. He is still revered by many, his name a byword for a certain kind of virtue and action.Credit…Gandhi’s Life in Photos, 75 Years After His Assassination
Seventy-five years ago, Mohandas K. Gandhi was shot dead by an assassin while on his way to deliver a regular evening prayer. Gandhi, by then largely known as the mahatma, or “great soul,” had helped lead India into its independent future less than a year before, with millions of Indian nationalists by his side. He died […]
At Least 5 Killed in Shooting at a Jerusalem Synagogue
At least five people were shot dead at a synagogue in East Jerusalem on Friday night in the deadliest attack in the city in several years. The Israeli police said that a gunman started firing at about 8:15 p.m. at people at a building used as a synagogue in Neve Yakov, an Israeli settlement in […]
Senior ISIS Leader in Somalia Killed in U.S. Special Operations Raid
WASHINGTON — Special Operations troops killed a senior Islamic State leader in a helicopter raid in a remote area of Somalia on Thursday, a U.S. official said. A U.S. official identified the man as Bilal al-Sudani, an Islamic State leader operating in Somalia. United States Africa Command said in a news release that the U.S. […]
At Least 7 Killed in Kherson Shelling, Fueling Anger Over Christmas Strikes
Bridget Brink, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, condemned the “brutal” strike on a city whose citizens had “already suffered so much” when retreating Russian forces cut off power and water to Kherson on their way out. “Truly horrific, especially on Christmas Eve,” she tweeted. Russia’s war in Ukraine is now fought in two largely separate […]
Paris Shooting: At Least 3 Killed in Suspected Racist Attack
A gunman killed three people and wounded three others Friday at a Kurdish community center, a hair salon and a restaurant in central Paris in an attack that French officials said appeared directed at foreigners. A 69-year-old man with a criminal record was taken into custody in the attack, which ignited neighborhood protests that led […]
Videos Suggest Captive Russian Soldiers Were Killed at Close Range
Iva Vukusic, a war crimes prosecution expert at Utrecht University, said that it was difficult to determine whether a war crime had or had not been committed based on the video evidence alone, and that the critical factor was time — when the Russians were shot. “Was it in one or two bursts of fire […]