Islamabad, Pakistan - A senior bureaucrat said on Saturday he helped rig Pakistan's elections, a week after polls marred by allegations of manipulation returned no clear winner. Liaqat Ali Chattha, commissioner of the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where the country's powerful military has its headquarters, said he would hand himself over...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - Turkish police on Tuesday shot dead two assailants from a leftist organization, branded "terrorists" by authorities, who attacked a security checkpoint outside Istanbul's main court, killing one person and injuring five, officials said. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the assailants were members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front...

Tokyo, Japan--A US Osprey military aircraft with eight crew on board crashed on Wednesday off a Japanese island, the coastguard said, in the latest accident involving the tilt-rotor military aircraft. It was unclear whether there were any survivors, but the coastguard said one unconscious person had been found at the scene...

The county sheriff's department asked people to lock down or close their business while "we investigate." The gunman is still at large. According to City Councilor Robert McCarthy, the death toll had climbed to 22 in the shooting spree at a bowling alley and also at least one other location,...

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL- A dozen Eritrean asylum seekers were wounded by Israeli police gunfire here on Saturday after a demonstration against an Eritrean government event turned violent, police and medical sources said. Clashes began outside a south Tel Aviv venue that was set to host a pro-regime event organized by the...

London announced the plan late Tuesday as part of its attempts to reduce illegal migration to the UK, a key political issue. The new UK-backed centre will "enrich existing expertise in both countries with respect to activities aimed at disrupting criminal networks organising illegal journeys", according to a statement from...

Two men set the Quran alight outside parliament in Stockholm at a protest similar to previous ones that have sparked tensions between Sweden and Middle Eastern countries. Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem kicked and stomped on the Muslim holy book, then set its pages on fire before slamming it shut.

Amnesty International expressed concern over the crackdown launched by Iran against women deemed to have violated the Islamic republic's dress rules. Iran was roiled by months of unprecedented protests triggered by custody death of Mahsa Amini in September last year, who had been arrested by the morality police for breaking...

Dubai, UAE-- During the first half of 2023 the Dubai Police has recorded some 65,942 smart transactions at its 22 "smart police stations" spread across the emirate of Dubai. The police said that a total of 65,942 smart transactions were conveniently and smartly processed without any human intervention. These included...

TEHRAN, IRAN -  Four assailants were killed on Saturday after blasting their way into an Iranian police compound, leaving one officer dead in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan near the Pakistani border, state media said. "Four unidentified armed individuals attacked and entered police station Number 16 of Zahedan", the capital of...

London, United Kingdom--Over 100 British lawmakers on Monday expressed concern at the lack of progress in the case of a jailed British-Egyptian activist and urged the UK government to adopt "fresh approaches" to secure his release. Alaa Abdel Fattah -- a key figure in the 2011 revolt that topped Egyptian autocrat...

France has been rocked by a major wave of violent street protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old of Algerian origin, identified only as Nahel M., in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday. The government has deployed tens of thousands of security forces and made hundreds...

President Emmanuel Macron informed Berlin he was postponing a state visit to deal with the urban rioting that has rocked France for the last four nights, as the 17-year-old whose killing by police sparked the protests was laid to rest. Police arrested 1,311 people overnight, the highest figure since the...

Nanterre, France--Sporadic violence and looting hit several cities across France in a fourth night of protests after the fatal police shooting of a teenager, but it was much less intense than previously, authorities said early Saturday. France deployed 45,000 officers backed by light armored vehicles, while crack police units and other...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced measures including more police and urged parents to keep minors off the streets as he battled to contain nightly riots over a teenager's fatal shooting by an officer. There had been "unacceptable exploitation of a death of an adolescent" in some quarters to justify the...

Iraq has long been transit country for captagon, but officials say it is increasingly becoming a consumer market for the illicit drug. In March, the authorities announced the seizure of three million captagon pills at the Al-Qaim border crossing with Syria.

PARIS, FRANCE -  More than 6,500 people have been arrested following the 2020 dismantling of EncroChat, an encrypted communications tool used by organized crime, Europol said on Tuesday. Close to 200 of the arrests were of "high-value targets", said the organization that assists EU members in international investigations, adding that nearly...

PARIS, FRANCE -  A major exiled Iranian opposition group on Tuesday expressed fury after Paris police refused to grant permission for a major rally next month, on the grounds it risked creating tensions and being the target of an attack. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a coalition that...

Continuing with its crackdown against drug traffickers in the country, Iraq security forces on Tuesday said they had taken into custody a smuggler and seized some 44,000 captagon tablets meant for sale. Iraq has seen a surge in the consumption of the amphetamine-like drug in recent years as it grapples...

Clashes broke out between Iranian and Taliban forces at the border between the two countries, Iranian police said without reporting casualties, amid a water dispute between the two neighbors. State news agency IRNA quoted deputy head of the police force Qassem Rezaee as saying that Taliban forces started shooting at...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - A former Iraqi religious official convicted of corruption has escaped police custody, prompting the arrest of more than two dozen officers suspected of helping him flee, the government said Wednesday. Saad Qambash was once head of Iraq's Sunni Waqf, the state body overseeing religious and civilian properties for...

Baghdad, Iraq--Iraqi police arrested overnight almost 200 people in raids on illegal casinos where alcohol was served in defiance of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the interior ministry said Tuesday. The raids targeted four locations in Baghdad where games of blackjack and roulette had been underway, ministry spokesman Saad Maan...

Tehran, Iran--Police in Iran said on Saturday they plan to use "smart" technology in public places to identify and then penalise women who violate the country's strict Islamic dress code. A statement said the force would "take action to identify norm-breaking people by using tools and smart cameras in public places...

Israeli police stormed into the Al-Aqsa mosque on Wednesday to dislodge what it calls agitators in a move condemned as an "unprecendented crime" by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. The movement which rules the Gaza Strip appealed to Palestinians in the West Bank "to go en masse to the Al-Aqsa...

Israeli police said they shot dead an Arab Israeli who grabbed a gun from an officer and fired it in a scuffle in the Old City of Jerusalem. Police said the attack took place around midnight near the Chain Gate, an access point to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Israeli-annexed...

SAINTE-SOLINE, FRANCE - French security forces again clashed with protesters Saturday as campaigners sought to stop the construction of reservoirs for the agricultural industry in the southwest of the country, AFP correspondents said. The violent scenes in Saite-Soline in western France came after days of violent protests nationwide over President Emmanuel...

In a crackdown on organized crime, Algeria has dismantled an international network specializing in trafficking people through Algeria to Europe, according to local media reports. The agency tasked with fighting crime arrested nine Syrians and six Algerians suspected of belonging to the group which trafficked Syrians and Lebanese.

JERUSALEM- Israel's parliament took another step Tuesday to push forward a legal reform package that has sparked mass protests against the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Lawmakers in a 3:00 am (0100 GMT) vote approved a bill in first reading that would, among other things, allow the Knesset...

LONDON, UK - The independent network Iran International TV said Saturday it had been forced on UK police advice to shut down its London studios, after a "significant escalation in state-backed threats from Iran". "I cannot believe it has come to this," said the network's general manager, Mahmood Enayat, adding that...

More than 15 police personnel were wounded in an attack on a bus carrying them in the south of the war-scarred country on Monday. The police officers were returning from a mission in the southern province of Daraa when, according to the interior ministry, "unidentified terrorists targeted their bus with...

By slowing down and breaking the sometime mindless scrolling habit, we can make decisions with a focused mind and not fall for the tricks of social engineers who rely on us being distracted, advises Rizk while giving tips for keeping your personal info safe this Data Privacy Day.

Violence broke out in an illegal camp in Casablanca when police sought to remove migrants, injuring an officer and leaving many police vehicles damaged. Images on social media showed migrants throwing stones. According to local media, police questioned six migrants from sub-Saharan Africa suspected of involvement in the violence towards...

Medical sources confirmed the casualty toll from the attack, for which there was no immediate claim of responsibility. In the past few years, attacks against security forces have been concentrated in the restive Sinai, where jihadists affiliated with the Islamic State group continue to operate. Eleven soldiers were killed on...

Kirkuk, Iraq-- At least seven members of Iraq's federal police were killed Sunday during an attack near Kirkuk in the country's north, where remnants of Islamic State group jihadists are active, police and government sources told AFP. A bomb blast initially targeted a truck transporting the men. It was followed by "a...

AMMAN, JORDAN - Jordan has arrested dozens of people accused of involvement in protests against rising fuel prices in which a senior police officer was gunned down, the country's security agency said Saturday. Colonel Abdul Razzaq Dalabeh, the deputy police chief of Maan province, died of a gunshot to the head...

Colonel Abdul Razzaq Dalabeh, the deputy police chief of Maan province, was shot in the head on Thursday while police tried to "calm down riots" in the southern town of Al-Husseiniya, the Public Security Directorate said in a statement.

Around 3,000 officers including elite anti-terror units took part in the early morning raids and searched more than 130 properties, in what German media described as one of the country's largest police actions ever against extremists.

Iran may have abolished its feared morality police, but many of its citizens based in Iraq doubt reports that Tehran has put an end to a force associated with months of protests in the Islamic Republic. It was in the custody of the morality police that Mahsa Amini died in...

Hardening its stance on the dress code, Iran has fired a bank manager who served an unveiled woman, according to local media even as demonstrations triggered by the mandatory head covering rule shake the country. Women in Iran are required to cover their heads, necks, and hair.

SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT - United Nations officers running security at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt said Monday they are probing allegations of surveillance and misconduct by Egyptian police towards delegates. Participants at COP27 - including activists, rights defenders and civil society groups - have raised cases of "surveillance"...

In order to help football fans who lose their passport or get arrested, Qatar has opened a World Cup consular facility, a first of its kind at a major sporting event. More than 40 countries will have offices in the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center alongside the police, interior ministry...

With dozens dead in demonstrations all across the country during the last several weeks, Iran now says that "riots" over the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody have reached their final days. Amini was arrested for allegedly violating the country's strict dress code for women.

Tunis, Tunisia— Tunisian mourners clashed with security forces on Friday after the death of a young man from injuries sustained during a police chase a month ago. Protestors threw rocks at security forces after Malek Sellimi's funeral in the working-class neighborhood of Upper Omran on the edges of Tunis, according to...

While Iran is struggling to contain rising wave of protests over the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in morality police custody, its forces are now involved in gun battles in the Southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan. At least 19 people including a Revolutionary Guards colonel were killed on Friday.

Tensions spiked in northwest Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody, sparking off protests in the region. She was on a visit with her family to Tehran when she was detained by the police unit entrusted with the job of enforcing the country's strict dress code for...

The interruption of a comedian’s show by Tunisian police officers has sparked off a new controversy over whether it signaled the return of censorship. The police move came after a scene in which the comedian criticized the authorities and the police, repeatedly brandishing his middle finger.

Indian police on Monday arrested the co-founder of a top fact-checking website who has been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, his colleague said. Mohammed Zubair was arrested in Delhi after being called in for questioning in an earlier case, said Pratik Sinha, who runs the Alt-News...

Police have arrested 120 people for breaking Iran's segregation and morality rules at a party in the forest in the northern province of Mazandaran, state media reported Sunday.

The bodies of two men were found in the hold of an Air Algerie plane at Algiers International Airport on Saturday, Algerian police said.

Controlling hundreds of thousands of football fans in Qatar's capital will be the biggest security challenge of World Cup 2022, FIFA told police chiefs from competing nations on Sunday. The Gulf state's police are preparing an intricate system of road closures and extra public transport to move rival groups of...