By Nishant Arora New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) When Facebook-owned mobile messaging service WhatsApp announced to turn on end-to-end encryption for its over one billion monthly active users last month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg hailed this…
Kabul, May 25 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed and four others injured on Wednesday after a suicide bomber struck a bus carrying a local court employees in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul. “The attack occurred…
Kabul, May 25 (IANS) The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday named Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada as its new leader to replace former chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan, an…
Kabul, May 25 (IANS) The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday announced a new leader to replace former chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan. In an online statement, the…
Kabul, May 25 (IANS) Afghan Taliban has named Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada as its new leader following the death of former chief Mullah Mansour in a drone strike in Pakistan, BBC reported on Wednesday.
Srinagar, May 25 (IANS) Separatist militants on Wednesday killed a civilian who was abducted late Tuesday night in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district. “Militants today (Wednesday) morning killed a civilian identified as Liyaqat Ali Chatwal…
Moscow, May 25 (IANS) The Russian Defence Ministry has denied reports that Islamic State militants destroyed four Russian helicopters at an air base in Syrias Homs province. All Russian combat helicopters currently stationed in the…
Moscow, May 25 (IANS) Since Moscow started its air operation in Syria on September 30 last year, the Russian Air Force has eliminated over a third of Islamic State fighters in the country, the…
Rome, May 25 (IANS/AKI) The chief imam of Cairo’s prestigious Al-Azhar mosque, Ahmad al-Tayyeb, has urged nations to join forces to end the scourge of terrorism and “rivers of blood”. “This is my appeal to…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday stuck to his earlier stance that the 2008 Batala House gunfight here was “fake” even as a video footage telecast on a TV…
Mosul (Iraq), May 24 (IANS/AKI) Islamic State fighters are abandoning their off-road vehicles and using taxis in this northern Iraqi city to avoid being targeted by war planes from the US-led coalition, local media reported….
Baghdad, May 24 (IANS) Iraqi security forces on Tuesday freed several villages from Islamic State (IS) militants in an offensive continued for the second day around the city of Fallujah in Iraq’s Anbar province, a…
Kabul, May 24 (IANS) The Afghan security forces killed 53 militants during separate military operations since early Monday, the Afghan defence ministry said on Tuesday. “A total of 81 armed militants were wounded and three…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) A court here on Tuesday sent, to 14 days judicial custody, three Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) suspects arrested for planning a terror attack in Delhi and nearby areas. Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh…
Ranchi, May 24 (IANS) Jharkhand is developing helipads in remote areas of the state to aid surveillance and operations against Maoist guerrillas, Inspector General (operations) M.S. Bhatia said on Tuesday. “Some helipads have been constructed…
Damascus, May 24 (IANS) The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and allied militant groups on Tuesday unleashed a campaign against the de facto capital of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria’s Al-Raqqa province. The move comes…
Imphal, May 24 (IANS) The bodies of the six troopers of 29 Assam Rifles who were killed in an ambush in Manipur’s Chandel district on Sunday, were flown to their homes on Tuesday for the…
By Sarwar Kashani and Ruwa Shah Srinagar, May 24 (IANS) Months after taking over as the prime minister two years ago, Narendra Modi, sporting a woollen cape-like Kashmiri garment called a pheran, addressed a huge…
(ATTN EDITORS: This is the first in a series of articles on the Narendra Modi government completing two years in office. Editor, IANS) By Sarwar Kashani and Ruwa Shah Srinagar, May 24 (IANS) Months after…
Islamabad, May 24 (IANS) At least five navy officers were given death sentence by a Pakistani Navy court for planning to hijack a warship and attack one of the US Navy’s refuel ships in 2014….