REPORTED BY KALAHAN DENG Haibatullah Akhundada is the top commander for terrorist group in Afghanistan. The Afghan Taliban have confirmed the death of their leader and appointed his successor Haibatullah Akhundada . He served as a Chief judge , In fact, he was a deputy for the previous leader who was killed in a drone strike last Saturday by U.S.forces. ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was killed in an airstrike Saturday in Pakistan, the White House confirmed Monday. A U.S. official said the drone strike occurred around 6 a.m. ET Saturday in a remote area of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, southwest of the town of Ahmad Wal. President Barack Obama said during his visit to Vietnam ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Two teams of suicide attackers launched coordinated assaults on Monday deep inside Syrian government territory, killing scores of people in a relatively secure region where support for President Bashar al-Assad runs high. Amaq, a news agency that is associated with the Islamic State, said jihadists from the militant group had carried out the attacks to strike ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG The Israeli military authorities on Monday allowed building supplies to start flowing into Gaza again, lifting a suspension that had blocked work for more than a month on thousands of houses destroyed in the 2014 summer war. Israel had suspended deliveries on April 4 after accusing Emad al-Baz, an official in Gaza’s economic ministry, of diverting ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG President Obama arrived in the steamy capital ofVietnam ahead of schedule on Sunday night to begin three days of meetings in hopes of luring yet another Southeast Asian country away from China’s tight embrace. He was greeted on the tarmac by a young woman in a long yellow dress who handed him a bouquet of flowers. ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG A slithering carpet of 75,000 snakes in a space the size of a living room. It’s hard to imagine wanting to get close to such a scene, but every year it happens, and visitors from around the world attend the unusual reptilian display in the remote hamlet of Narcisse in Manitoba, Canada. The peak of the ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG U.S.President Brack Obama awards the Medal of Valor to Los Angeles police officer Donald Thompson on Monday,May 16, while off duty. Thompson pulled a man from a car moments before it was engulfed in flames.Thompson suffered first-and second-degree burns.

  WRITTEN BY KALAHAN DENG Some people may wonder and ask, is it possible for five members from one family to be working in the same police department? Well, what many do not know is the fact that these heroes are known to be crime-fighters sisters with the police force in New York City. They are uniquely a part in ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday that Egypt has sent a robot submarine to join the hunt for an EgyptAir plane, which crashed in some of the deepest waters of the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board. Personal belongings, debris and body parts from the Airbus 320 have ...

Exclusive to The Middle East Online Edited by Nelly Tawil EgyptAir says the wreckage of its missing plane with 66 people on board has not been found, despite earlier announcing debris had been located in the Mediterranean Sea. Egyptian officials released the information quickly after the incident on Thursday; eager to avoid the criticisms they faced in the aftermath of ...