Baghdad, June 15 (IANS) Iraqi security forces on Tuesday continued clashes with the Islamic State (IS) terrorists around the IS stronghold in the city of Fallujah and others areas in Anbar province. The troops freed…
Paris, June 15 (IANS) A list of targets, including journalists and the police, was found in the house of the police officer who was stabbed to death on Monday night by an Islamic State (IS)-linked…
Singapore, June 15 (IANS) About 400 people in Singapore on Tuesday held a vigil for victims of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, in which 50 people, including the shooter, were killed…
WASHINGTON D.C., U.S. President Barack Obama. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu/IANS) Washington, June 14 (IANS) US President Barack Obama on Tuesday unleashed a blistering verbal assault on Donald Trump and his proposal for a ban on Muslims entering…
Raipur/Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh), June 14 (IANS) At least eight Maoist guerrillas were killed and many others injured in a gunfight with police in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday, a senior police officer said. Three police personnel were also…
Rome/New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was on Tuesday reported to have been killed in an American airstrike. But there was no confirmation from US officials about the death of…
Dhaka, June 14 (IANS) Security forces in Bangladesh have arrested 11,307 people, including over 100 suspected Islamists, in a nationwide crackdown following a spate of killings of secularists and minorities. “As many as 3,115 more…
Kabul, June 14 (IANS) A total of 117 militants were killed in military operations launched by Afghan security forces within the last 24 hours, the country’s defence ministry said on Tuesday. “Afghan security conducted several…
Dhaka, June 14 (IANS) At least 11,307 people have been arrested within four days of an ongoing week-long anti-militant drive in Bangladesh, police said on Tuesday. “As many as 3,115 more people were arrested on…
Washington, June 14 (IANS) Afghan-origin Omar Mateen, 29, who opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando city of Florida, visited the club before mounting the attack and used several gay dating applications, according to…
Paris, June 14 (IANS) A police official and his partner were stabbed to death in a Paris suburb by a man who claimed allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group, the media reported. The police…
Srinagar, June 14 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday confirmed that the person killed in a firing incident in Kud town of Udhampur district was a militant who had fired at the security…
Washington, June 14 (IANS) The White House on Monday said President Barack Obama will visit Orlando city in Florida on Thursday to mourn the victims killed at the gay nightclub. “On Thursday, the president will…
Dhaka, June 14 (IANS) Bangladeshi police on tuesday morning arrested a top militant of banned Jamaat’ul Mujahideen Bangladesh group, police said. “Top JMB leader Garib Ullah was captured in a forest in Mymensingh district,” Xinhua…
Islamabad, June 14 (IANS) At least five militants were killed during a search operation in Quetta city in Pakistan on Tuesday morning, a provincial minister said. Police launched the operation on a tip-off over the…
Dharamsala, June 14 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama led a silent prayer in the US for victims of the mass shooting in Orlando, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said on Tuesday. The answer…
Paris, June 14 (IANS) A police official and his partner were stabbed to death in a Paris suburb by a man who claimed allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group, the media reported. The police…
Orlando, June 14 (IANS) Thousands of people rallied in the US city of Orlando on Monday night for the first official vigil to commemorate the victims in deadly mass shooting at a gay nightclub that…
Havana, June 14 (IANS) Cuban President Raul Castro has condemned the Orlando mass shooting that left 50 people killed and 53 others injured, expressing solidarity with the families of the victims, the US people and…
Rome, June 14 (IANS/AKI) The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group’s alleged leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in an air raid in Syria by the US-led coalition, reports said on Monday. Baghdadi died in…