Lt General Faiz Hameed is new ISI chief
Islamabad: Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed would be the new chief of Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ISI, the Army announced on Sunday. The Pakistan Army on Sunday announced a number of changes to postings of its top generals.
Gunmen kill 34 villagers in Nigeria
Kano: Gunmen have killed 34 people in Nigeria’s northern Zamfara state where criminal gangs have been terrorising remote villages, police said on Sunday. Armed bandits on motorcycles stormed into neighbouring Tungar Kafau and Gidan Wawa villages in Shinkafi district late Friday and shot dead 34 people.
Field fires in Syria’s Hasakeh kill 10
Qamishli: Fires engulfing vital wheat fields across Syria’s northeast have killed at least 10 people, a war monitor said Sunday, as Kurdish authorities claim the blazes were set deliberately. Kurdish authorities and the Damascus regime are competing to buy up this year’s harvest as fires — some claimed by the Islamic State group — continue to scorch crops in the country’s breadbasket. The victims included civilians and members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces who died while trying to extinguish the blazes since Saturday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.