Srinagar: Security forces in Saudi Arabia on Sunday foiled an attempted terror attack on an office of state security north of the kingdom’s capital. Initial reports indicated that security troops had killed four armed men as they tried to storm an investigation centre of the General Directorate of Public Security in the town of Al […]
Doha: Upcoming talks between the Taliban and the United States will focus on the timetable for pulling out all foreign troops from Afghanistan, according to a senior Taliban member. Speaking to international news agency AFP, the Taliban’s political spokesman Suhail Shaheen said previous negotiations with Washington saw the two sides agree to a total withdrawal, […]
Colombo: Sri Lankan police have arrested 13 men in connection with bomb blasts on churches and hotels as the death toll mounted to 290, a police spokesman said Monday. More than 500 people were wounded in the blasts, he added, in the deadliest violence since the end of the country’s long-running civil war a decade […]
Colombo: More than 200 people, including 22 foreigners, were killed and over 400 in a series of blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, hospitals and police officials said, the worst outbreak of violence since the end of the civil war a decade ago. According to media reports, at about 0845 hrs, at least eight […]
Colombo: At least 80 people were injured when multiple explosions hit two churches in Sri Lanka on Sunday as worshippers attended Easter services, officials and police said. The blasts occurred at around 8.45 a.m. (local time) as the Easter Sunday masses were in progress, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said. One of the blasts hit St Anthony’s […]
Moscow: As many as 220 people were killed and 1,066 more were injured since the beginning of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) offensive on Tripoli, which is controlled by the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), the World Health Organization (WHO) said. On Thursday, the WHO reported about 213 victims of the armed […]
Srinagar: An explosion followed by gunfire was reported in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, close to one of the city’s main hotels and the communications ministry, a police spokesman said. There was no immediate word on the cause of the blast or of any casualties in one of the main commercial areas […]
Kabul: The facility of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Friday was rocked with twin explosions that resulted in killing of three security member and wounding other two. The explosion took place in NDS facility when the security personnel were trying to diffuse an improvise explosive device (IED). The National Directorate of […]
Srinagar: A meeting between the Taliban and Afghan politicians and civil society aimed at ending more than 17 years of war in Afghanistan has been postponed, officials and diplomats said on Thursday, citing Taliban objections to the size of the Afghan delegation. The talks were set to begin on Friday in Doha, but a senior government […]
Istanbul: Turkey’s main opposition candidate was declared Istanbul’s mayor on Wednesday after election recounts were finally completed, despite an appeal still pending by President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party to re-run the vote in the country’s largest city. The final result of the March 31 local elections showed a narrow victory for the secularist opposition Republican […]
