3rd millennium

Not a day goes by without hearing about another tragedy of immigrants dying on their way to find better lives. As the instability that followed the Arab spring has deteriorated the situation in the Middle East, we see more and more immigrant stories making the headlines.

Gunmen from Somali Islamist group Shabaab killed a regional lawmaker on April 18 after he had taken his wife to hospital in the capital Mogadishu, the group and officials said.

An angry mob has attacked a house in southeastern Turkey, claiming that the members of the Syrian family inside were listening to music too loudly ? and with no shirts.

Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab militants April 14 blasted their way into the higher education ministry with a car bomb before storming the building, killing nine people.

Police and witnesses said the car bomb caused a huge explosion which allowed the gunmen to force their way into the fortified building.

A Taliban suicide car bomb targeted a NATO convoy in eastern Afghanistan April 10, killing at least three civilians as security forces brace for the start of the Taliban's traditional spring offensive.

Turkish port authority officers discovered over 300 Syrian refugees including 85 children after seizing a cargo ship by opening fire on the engine and preventing access to lifeboats.

A Taliban suicide attack in Kabul has killed two people, including a Turkish soldier, highlighting the fragile security situation as the Afghan government presses for peace talks with the militants.
      
The blast came shortly after 8:00 am (0330 GMT), not far from the Iranian embassy. Police said the dead included a Turkish national and an Afghan passer-by.

At least six migrants were killed when a boat capsized and sank off Turkey's southwest province of Mu?la Feb. 7, semi-official Anadolu Agency quoted the provincial governor as saying.

Italian authorities sent two helicopters Tuesday to meet a cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants after a passenger sent a distress call earlier when the ship was off Greece.

The operation came two days after a Greek-operated ferry caught fire between Greece and Italy with the loss of at least 11 lives, prompting a two-day search and rescue effort.

Italian and Greek helicopter crews worked into the night to airlift passengers off a burning ferry adrift in the Adriatic Sea, battling darkness and bad weather that hampered rescue efforts by other ships throughout Sunday.