Moscow, Aug 17 (IANS) Moscow hopes the US will refrain from unilateral steps leading to the collapse of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “I hope that the US will…
By Arul Louis New York, Aug 16 (IANS) Stepping up action against terrorists attacking India, President Donald Trump’s Administration has declared Hizb-ul Mujahideen (HM) a “global terrorist organisation” in an attempt to choke off financial…
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said the common Kashmiris want to be active stakeholders in the peace process but had been made victims by certain vested interests. In…
Washington, Aug 16 (IANS) In a diplomatic victory for India, the US on Wednesday designated Pakistan-based militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) organisation….
Washington, Aug 16 (IANS) The US Department of State on Wednesday designated Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). In an order, the State Department said…
Srinagar, Aug 16 (IANS) Notching another major success, security forces killed top LeT commander Ayub Lalhari on Wednesday in a gunfight in Pulwama district, days after Hizbul Mujahideen’s top commander Yasin Itoo was killed in…
Srinagar/New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) The NIA on Wednesday widened its net in the Kashmir terror money trail and conducted searches at a dozen locations in Jammu and Kashmir, including the houses of a prominent…
Srinagar, Aug 16 (IANS) A top LeT commander was killed on Wednesday in a gunfight between the security forces and the militants in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Police said security forces surrounded an orchard in…
By Francis Kokutse Accra, Aug 16 (IANS) Describing terrorism as the “gravest threat the world has faced since World War Two”, Indian Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar has blamed the UN for…
Baghdad, Aug 16 (IANS) At least 10 security personnel were killed on Wednesday in three attacks by Islamic State (IS) militants on military bases in Iraq’s Salahudin province, an official said. Six suicide bombers wearing…
Bogota, Aug 16 (IANS) Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos oversaw the final withdrawal of weapons handed over by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, the media reported on Wednesday. At a ceremony in…
Kabul, Aug 16 (IANS) Afghan security forces have discovered around 40 bodies in a mass grave in the northern Sari Pul province during the government forces’ cleanup operations in the troubled region. The bodies were…
Abuja, Aug 16 (IANS) At least 27 persons were killed and 80 injured when suspected Boko Haram terrorists blew themselves up at three different places in the Nigerian town of Mandari, the media on Wednesday….
New Delhi/Srinagar, Aug 16 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday raided a dozen places in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with its ongoing probe into the terror funding to stoke unrest in the…
Lagos, Aug 16 (IANS) Scores of people were feared killed by suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers at a market in Nigeria’s Borno State, media reports said. A security source who confirmed the attacks on Tuesday…
Baghdad, Aug 16 (IANS) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pledged to liberate “every inch” of Iraq’s land from Islamic State (IS), confirming that Iraqi troops are preparing for a new offensive. “We will not leave…
Nairobi, Aug 16 (IANS) Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab on Tuesday killed five police officers and injured another during an ambush in Garissa County in Kenya, police said. Police said an unknown number of Al-Shabaab militia…
Baghdad, Aug 16 (IANS) Iraq’s paramilitary Hashd Shaabi units foiled two suicide bomb attacks by Islamic State (IS) militants in Salahudin province, the media reported. The attack took place in the early morning on Tuesday…
Cairo, Aug 16 (IANS) Two suspected extremists were killed in a shootout with security forces in a desert area in southwestern Egypt, the interior ministry said. According to the ministry on Tuesday, the two suspects…
Sukma/Jagdalpur, Aug 15 (IANS) Three members of a Special Task Force were injured, one of them seriously, on Tuesday when Maoists triggered a landmine blast in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, official sources said. The security…