A disgruntled former security guard on Monday took an undetermined number of hostages inside a shopping mall in the Philippines, police and local officials said. Hundreds of shoppers and employees were evacuated from the V Mall in the city of Manila’s Greenhills shopping district after gunfire was heard from the second floor, said police spokesman […]
This is not one of the topics I like writing on. However, I am constrained to lend my voice because of the wanton destruction that has taken place in North-eastern Nigeria since 2009. As it stands, the Boko Haram insurgency has claimed over 100,000 lives and succeeded in displacing over two million people from their […]
The US government has said it is “tremendously sorry” for killing two hostages held by al-Qaeda during a counterterrorism operation in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan earlier this year. The White House said on Thursday that American Warren Weinstein and Italian Giovanni Lo Porto were killed in a drone strike in January in […]