A violent mob attacked the Sunshine Rehabilitation Centre in Orangi Town, Karachi and allegedly freed 127 patients who were undergoing treatment for drug addiction, as reported by ARY News. The attackers damaged the property, beat up the staff, and even targeted a police mobile van parked outside the centre. The rehab centre has been operated…
Hamas released Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage it held in Gaza, on Monday evening, after mediators brokered a deal between the group and the United States that largely circumvented the Israeli government. Mr. Alexander’s release came on the eve of a visit by President Trump to the Middle East, and was portrayed by…
An American citizen detained in Afghanistan last month by the Taliban administration has been released, former US Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said on Saturday. “American citizen Faye Hall, just released by the Taliban, is now in the care of our friends, the Qataris in Kabul, and will soon be on her way…
Hamas released six Israeli hostages from Gaza on Saturday, delivering the last living captives set to be freed in the first phase of a fragile cease-fire. That truce was already jolted this week when the militant group initially returned remains purportedly of an Israeli hostage that testing revealed to be someone else. Early Sunday, Israel…
Hamas releases three more Israeli hostages in return of 369 Palestinian prisoners under Gaza truce deal Iair Horn, US-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen and Russian-Israeli Sasha Troufanov, hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, are released by Hamas as part of a ceasefire deal between the group and Israel. (Photo: Reuters) Hamas releases…
Richard Grenell, President Trump’s envoy for special missions, said on social media that he was flying home from Venezuela with six American detainees on Friday, after meeting with the country’s president. There were at least nine people with U.S. citizenship or residency detained in Venezuela, according to Venezuelan officials. The government had accused some of…
Israel and Hamas exchanged a new group of hostages and prisoners on Thursday in a handover that devolved into chaos as the armed militants struggled to control a chanting, jostling crowd of Palestinians trying to catch a glimpse of Israelis held captive during 15 months of war. Hamas released a total of eight Israeli and…
NEW DELHI: In the Jan 2014 Mumbai rape-murder of an IT professional that created as much sensation as the 2012 Nirbhaya case, Supreme Court Tuesday acquitted Chandrabhan Sudam Sanap by setting aside concurrent decisions of a trial court and Bombay HC that had convicted him and awarded death penalty. “He shall be set at liberty…
Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday in exchange for four soldiers who were being held hostage by Hamas. Dozens of the prisoners had been serving life sentences in Israeli jails for attacks against Israelis. The Israeli prison service said in a statement that the prisoners had been released from Ofer Prison near the city…
An Afghan prisoner in US custody was freed in exchange for two American citizens, authorities in Afghanistan said on Tuesday. The Afghan citizen, Khan Mohammad, had been sentenced to life imprisonment by US courts and was serving his sentence in the state of California, the foreign office said in a statement, adding that he was…