Islamabad, Oct 12 (IANS) As the Pakistan Army on Thursday rescued a Canadian-American family held hostage by the Taliban after it acted on intelligence shared by the US, the US President applauded the development and…
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) A senior Kashmiri separatist leader and a businessman arrested on charges of receiving funds from Pakistan to sponsor terrorist activities and stone-pelting in Jammu and Kashmir have moved the court…
Islamabad, Oct 12 (IANS) The Pakistan Army on Thursday said it had rescued a family of foreign hostages held by a militant outfit “safe and sound” after it acted on intelligence shared by the US….
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) India has reiterated the need for an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled national peace and reconciliation in the strife-torn country, the External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday. New Delhi’s views were…
Srinagar, Oct 12 (IANS) A girl sustained minor injuries on Thursday when militants hurled a grenade at a beauty parlour in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama town, police said. “Furniture and fixtures inside the beauty parlour…
New York, Oct 12 (IANS) Frequent spats with North Korea and a “reckless” attitude displayed by US President Donald Trump have prompted the fear of a World War III among most Americans, a survey has…
London, Oct 12 (IANS) British IS recruiter Sally-Anne Jones, nicknamed the “White Widow”, has been killed in a US drone strike, a media report said. Jones was said to have been killed in June in…
Baghdad, Oct 12 (IANS) At least 10 persons were killed and 20 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a cafe in Iraq’s Anbar, police said. The attack took place on Wednesday night when…
Rome, Oct 11 (IANS/AKI) Interior Ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations and top European Union officials will meet in Italy next week to forge ways of combating jihadist foreign fighters and the use…
Thane (Maharashtra), Oct 11 (IANS) The Thane Police on Wednesday slapped MCOCA against five accused, including absconding mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar’s younger brother Iqbal Kaskar and aide Chhota Shakeel in an extortion case. “We…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The NIA on Wednesday said the Juvenile Justice Board in Patna has found a juvenile guilty of conspiracy in the Patna and Bodhgaya serial bomb blasts in Bihar and remanded…
Lahore, Oct 11 (IANS) A Pakistan court has warned that it would end the house arrest of terrorist leader Hafiz Saeed, blamed for the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, if the government doesn’t submit evidence against…
Srinagar, Oct 11 (IANS) Two militants who had killed a BSF trooper on September 28 and two Indian Air Force (IAF) commandos were killed on Wednesday in a fierce gun battle in Jammu and Kashmir’s…
Srinagar, Oct 11 (IANS) Two Jammu and Kashmir policemen were arrested on Wednesday for supplying bullets to militants in Shopian district. Police constables Shabir Ahmad Malik and Nazir Ahmad were arrested after an over-ground worker…
Srinagar, Oct 11 (IANS) Two commandos of the Indian Air Force elite Garud commando unit and two militants were killed on Wednesday in a gun battle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district. “The two Garud…
Srinagar, Oct 11 (IANS) Two Indian Army soldiers and two militants were killed on Wednesday in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district. The gun battle between the security forces and the terrorists took…
Srinagar, Oct 11 (IANS) Two militants were killed on Wednesday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district, officials said. “Two terrorists have been killed in an ongoing gunfight in…
Baghdad, Oct 11 (IANS) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi expected the Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq will be completely defeated this year. In a televised press conference on Tuesday after his weekly cabinet meeting,…
Baghdad, Oct 11 (IANS) Iraqi security forces have fully liberated Hawijah area from Islamic State (IS) militants in west of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, the Iraqi military said. The Iraqi Army, Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS),…
Srinagar, Oct 10 (IANS) A vehicle of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force was attacked by militants here on Tuesday evening, police said. No trooper was injured but one of the attackers were injured. Two…