Srinagar: Security forces in Pakistan have gunned down four militants, including a top Taliban commander who masterminded the last year’s powerful bomb blast in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in which at least 31 people including three Sikhs were killed. Those killed in the exchange of fire include Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Islam and Mohibullah […]
Srinagar: Kenya’s government on Tuesday said the situation was under control after six people were killed and some 30 others wounded in a militant attack at an upscale hotel and office complex in this capital. “I can now report we have secured all the buildings,” Interior Minister Fred Matiangi said. “We are in the final […]
Srinagar: US president Donald Trump on Monday spoke to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, where they discussed the current situation in Syria and the economic development between the two countries, a day after he threatened to “devastate” Turkey’s economy if it fought with the Kurds. Taking to his Twitter handle, Trump wrote, “Spoke w/ […]
Washington, : US President Donald Trump threatened to impose economic measures against Turkey if Ankara decides to attack the Syrian Kurds. “Will devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds. Create 20 mile safe zone. Likewise, do not want the Kurds to provoke Turkey,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday. He also listed Russia, Iran and […]
Herat: At least six people, including an assailant, were killed after Taliban gunmen attacked a police station in Herat city, capital of western Afghan province of Herat overnight, provincial government spokesman said Sunday. The incident occurred late Saturday night after at least three gunmen stormed the main police station in Pul-e-Rangina locality of Police District […]
Washington: The FBI has opened an inquiry into whether Donald Trump was working for Russians in the days after the American President fired James B Comey in 2017 as the top investigative agency’s director, according to a report. In May 2017, the US President abruptly removed the 56-year-old Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of […]
Khartoum: Anti-government protests that have rocked Sudan have left 22 people dead, authorities said Thursday, after three demonstrators died hours after thousands cheered for President Omar al-Bashir at a rival rally in Khartoum. Wednesday’s competing rallies in the capital followed weeks of angry street protests over a government decision to triple the price of bread […]
Srinagar: A bomb-laden drone flown by Yemen’s Houthi rebels flew into a military parade on Thursday outside of the southern port city of Aden, killing at least six troops from a Saudi-led coalition and their allies in a brazen attack threatening UN-brokered peace efforts to end the years-long war tearing at the Arab world’s poorest […]
Kabul: Officials say a wave of Taliban attacks in western and northern Afghanistan the previous day has killed 21 members of the country’s security forces. Jamshed Shahabi, spokesman for the governor in western Badghis province, says the insurgents overran outposts there, killing six policemen. Council member Shamsul Haq Baeakzai in northern Baghlan province says seven members […]
Washington: Far-right terrorists in the United States such as neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups pose a greater threat than Muslim-inspired militants, with right-wingers killing 15 people in America compared with a single death from a jihadist attack in 2018, the Soufan Center said in a new report on Wednesday. “In the United States, 2018 saw […]
