Shingal, March 17 (IANS/AKI) Kurdish authorities want the International Criminal Court to examine 25 mass graves in northern Iraq containing the bodies of Yazidis allegedly executed by the Islamic State militant group, a media report…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (Xinhua/Bao Dandan) Washington, March 17 (IANS) The Islamic State terrorist group has committed genocide against minority Christians, Yazidis and Shiite Muslims in Iraq and Syria, US Secretary of State John…
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) At least 800 women from Iraq, Jordan and Syria were forced to join the Islamic State terrorist group recently, a US based Iranian journalist Azabeh Moaveni said at the India…
Kolkata, March 17 (IANS) A 19-year-old engineering student hailing from West Bengal was arrested by the NIA in Delhi for acting as a facilitator for the Islamic State (IS) terror group, an official said on…
Mumbai, March 17 (IANS) The Bombay High Court on Thursday commuted, to life imprisonment, the death sentence of IM operative Mirza Himayat Baig after acquitting him any involvement in the February 13, 2010 German Bakery…
Islamabad, March 17 (IANS) At least five militants were killed in clashes with security forces in Pakistan’s northwest tribal area of Khyber Agency on Thursday, an army statement said. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the mouthpiece…
Mumbai, March 17 (IANS) The Bombay High Court on Thursday commuted, to a life term, the death sentence to Mirza Himayat Baig after his conviction for the February 13, 2010 Pune German Bakery blast which…
Mumbai, March 17 (IANS) The Bombay High Court on Thursday commuted to life term the death sentence awarded to Himayat Baig, convicted for the February 13, 2010 Pune German Bakery blast in which 17 people,…
Ranchi, March 17 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas on Thursday shot dead four labourers constructing a road in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, police said. Some 20 Maoists raided a road construction company at Basia, 145 km from Ranchi,…
Kabul, March 17 (IANS) Taliban leader Mullah Mansour has ordered his fighters to prepare for a “final attack” in Afghanistan, even as the government seeks to restart peace negotiations with the insurgents. “With the help…
Kolkata, March 17 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a West Bengal youth over suspected links with the Islamic State (IS) terror group, an official said on Thursday. The 19-year-old, a student of…
Ankara, March 17 (IANS) Germany on Thursday closed its consulate general and a high school in Istanbul following security threats. The privately run German High School will be closed on Thursday, for a day, the…
Tokyo, March 17 (IANS) The Japanese government is analysing an alleged video of journalist Jumpei Yasuda, who has been held captive in Syria by an armed group since July 2015, said Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida…
Islamabad, March 17 (IANS) Pakistan has let the monster of religious militancy grow, admitted an influential Pakistani daily which noted that neutralising it will not be a short-term exercise. An editorial “Peshawar bus bombing” in…
Deir Ezzor, March 16 (IANS/AKI) Islamic State militants stitched up a Syrian youth’s mouth and paraded him through the eastern city of Deir Ezzor for “talking too much”, a media report said. Citing local activist…
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said there was more than 35 percent reduction in cases of border intrusion in 2015 over…
Islamabad, March 16 (IANS) A three-member lady health worker anti-polio team was shot at and injured by armed men in Garhi Yasin area of Sindh province on Wednesday. The polio team was working as part…
Guwahati, March 16 (IANS) Three militants of Bodo outfit NDFB — two of whom were trained in Myanmar and were wanted in many cases — were killed in gunfights with police in Assam, an official…
Peshawar, March 16 (IANS) A powerful bomb, detonated by a timing mechanism, ripped through a bus carrying government employees in Pakistan’s Peshawar on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and causing injuries to another two…
Abuja, March 16 (IANS) At least 22 people were confirmed dead after two suicide attacks on Wednesday targeted a mosque in Umarari village of Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, a spokesman of the Nigerian army…