Kabul, Dec 13 (IANS) Air attacks against the hardline Islamic State (IS) group in the eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday killed 12 armed militants and injured two others, a government official said. “Acting upon intelligence…
Srinagar, Dec 13 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered compensation of Rs 4 lakh to the family of slain militant Burhan Wani for his brother’s mysterious killing in April last year. However, his…
Geneva, Dec 13 (IANS) Pro-Syrian government forces executed 82 civilians in Aleppo during the ongoing battle to take back the final rebel-held area, UN officials said on Tuesday. According to the UN Human Rights office…
Damascus, Dec 13 (IANS) Humanitarian volunteers in Aleppo city appealed for help amid multiple reports of executions of people with ties to rebel groups by the Syrian army, media reports said on Tuesday. Relatives of…
Guwahati, Dec 13 (IANS) With the possibility of militant outfits in Assam trying to convert their old currency into new post demonetisation, police urged banks to keep strict track of transactions. The Police asked the…
Cairo, Dec 13 (IANS) Egypt on Tuesday accused Muslim Brotherhood leaders of fleeing to Qatar for training and financing the perpetrators of the church bomb attack in Cairo. “The investigations revealed that a man called…
Moscow, Dec 13 (IANS) A new Islamic State attack on Palmyra in Syria from the besieged Mosul region of Iraq could be “orchestrated” to divert the attention of Syrian government forces from Aleppo and spare…
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and other senior leaders paid rich tributes on Tuesday to the martyrs of the 2001 Parliament terror…
Paris, Dec 13 (IANS) French police on Monday arrested 11 persons suspected of being involved in a truck attack in which 86 people were killed in southern city of Nice last July, local radio reported….
London, Dec 13 (IANS) Six terror suspects were arrested in a series of raids across Britain on Monday. Four men from Derby, a man from Burton upon Trent and a woman from London were arrested…
Cairo, Dec 12 (IANS/AKI) Egyptian security forces have arrested “further” suspects over a blast at Cairo’s main Coptic Cathedral complex that killed at least 24 people and injured 49, said the state-run daily Al-Ahram Online…
London, Dec 12 (IANS) Two men found guilty of funding a suspect in the Paris and Brussels terror attacks, were handed down jail sentences of eight and three years by a London court on Monday,…
Jerusalem, Dec 12 (IANS) Signifying end to years of diplomatic strife between the two countries, Turkey’s new envoy submitted his credentials to Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin on Monday. The ceremony, at the Presidential Residence in…
Cairo, Dec 12 (IANS) Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that the Cairo church blast that killed 25 persons on Sunday was carried out by a suicide bomber. Speaking to mourners during the funeral…
Damascus, Dec 12 (IANS) At least 34 people were killed on Monday in airstrikes on rebel-held areas in central province of Hama, a monitor group reported. Half of those killed were children, said the Syrian…
Islamabad, Dec 12 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday urged religious scholars to play a role in eliminating root causes of extremism from the society. The Prime Minister made the remarks during a…
Islamabad, Dec 12 (IANS) India’s designs to “disintegrate our country will not succeed”, a Pakistani Minister said on Monday, a day after Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh warned that the neighbouring country’s proxy war policy…
Istanbul, Dec 12 (IANS) The deaths in Istanbul’s twin bombings have risen to 44, Turkish Health Minister Recep Akdag announced on Monday. A local daily quoted the minister as saying that 36 police officers and…
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) In what can be seen as a message to China on its claims over the South China Sea, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that India and Indonesia have…
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) India and Indonesia on Monday discussed the threat posed by global terrorism and other transnational crimes and emphasised “zero tolerance” for terror acts. Both countries also resolved to significantly enhance…