Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh), Sep 17 (IANS) Narayanpur district police has nabbed three Maoists, including the head of a local outfit, during a search in Kuinar village in Chhattisgarh, police said on Saturday. One of the arrested…
London/Dhaka, Sep 17 (IANS) A British Muslim was found guilty of an Islamic State-inspired murder of a Bangladeshi imam who practised a form of faith healing condemned by the jihadist group. On Friday, a jury…
Islamabad, Sep 17 (IANS) Taliban group Jamaat ul Ahrar (JuA) claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in a mosque in Pakistan as the death toll touched 28. In a statement released on Friday midnight it…
Gaza, Sep 17 (IANS) Fathi Hammad, one of Hamas movement’s top leaders in the Gaza Strip, on Saturday slammed the decision of the US State Department to include him in the list of global terrorists….
Islamabad, Sep 17 (IANS) The death toll has gone up to 28 in Pakistan’s Mohmand Agency after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque during Friday prayers, authorities said. A suicide bomber targeted…
Pentagon, Sep 17 (IANS) A senior Islamic State leader who, as the extreme group’s “minister of information,” oversaw the group’s production of torture and execution videos, has been killed in an airstrike in Syria, Pentagon…
Geneva/New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) India and Pakistan continued to trade diplomatic barbs over Kashmir at the UN Human Rights Council, with Islamabad raising the issue of “unceasing oppression” even as New Delhi hit back,…
Guwahati, Sep 16 (IANS) The Indian army apprehended eight hardcore cades of the insurgent group Karbi People Liberation Tiger (KPLT) in a series of “multi directional and synchronised operations” since Thursday night in Assam’s West…
Damascus, Sep 16 (IANS) The Islamic State arrested seven women in northeast Syria on suspicion of spying for the US-led coalition and publicly flogged them, local news site ARA News reported on Friday. The women…
Baghdad, Sep 16 (IANS/AKI) The eldest daughter of late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein intends to launch a new tribal coalition to run in the country’s 2018 national elections, media outlets reported on Friday. Raghad Saddam…
Bengaluru, Sep 16 (IANS) A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here on Friday sentenced 13 terror convicts to five years jail for plotting to kill prominent politicians, right-wing leaders, police officers and journalists four…
London, Sep 16 (IANS) A Syrian rebel accidentally blew himself and his comrades up while taking a selfie with a phone possibly connected to a bomb, the media reported on Friday. The 30-second clip shows…
Tripoli, Sep 16 (IANS) Western Libyan militias freed 15 people kidnapped almost a year ago by the Libyan branch of the Islamic State (IS). Mohamad al-Gasri, official spokesman for the militia alliance seeking to recover…
Islamabad, Sep 16 (IANS) At least 23 persons were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in Pakistan’s Mohmand Agency during Friday prayers. As many as 29 others were injured in…
Islamabad, Sep 16 (IANS) At least 16 persons were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in Pakistan’s Mohmand Agency during Friday prayers. As many as 23 others were injured in…
Islamabad, Sep 16 (IANS) At least four Islamic State militants were arrested by Punjab province Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Pakistan. As per details provided by the CTD, the militants were planning to target government…
Washington, Sep 16 (IANS) The US has reiterated that Pakistan’s struggle with terrorism will not come to an end until it makes a decisive shift in its policy of tolerance towards externally-focused groups and their…
Kabul, Sep 16 (IANS) At least 18 Taliban fighters were killed by Afghan security forces in the country’s Kunduz province, an army spokesman said on Friday. “The security forces, after days of heavy fighting, were…
Washington, Sep 16 (IANS) Ahead of the US-India-Afghanistan trilateral talks in New York later this month and in the wake of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s recently concluded visit to New Delhi, Washington has praised India’s…
Srinagar, Sep 16 (IANS) Curfew like restrictions were imposed by authorities in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir Valley on Friday to prevent separatists called protests. The authorities did not mention if there would be…