By Francis Kokutse Accra (Ghana), March 14 (IANS) At least 12 people, including some foreign nationals, have been reported dead after an armed group attacked a popular restaurant on a beach close to the L’Etoile…
Ankara, March 14 (IANS) An explosion hit Turkeys capital Ankara on Sunday killing at least 27 people and injuring 75 others, sources said. Many ambulances were sent to the scene after a bomb-laden car exploded…
Grand-Bassam (Ivory Coast), March 13 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed on Sunday as gunmen opened fire on tourists at a beach resort in the west African nation of Ivory Coast, a media report…
Imphal, March 13 (IANS) Thokchom Satyabrata, a BJP leader in Manipur, had a narrow escape on Saturday night in a bomb blast at his home in the state capital, police said on Sunday. Police said…
Damascus, March 13 (IANS) Syrian troops were reported approaching the ancient city of Palmyra which has been captured by the Islamic State (IS) terror group, the media reported on Sunday. After capturing two points on…
Sanaa, March 13 (IANS) At least 15 Al Qaeda militants were killed overnight in Saudi Arabia-led air strikes in Yemen’s Aden province, a military official said on Sunday. The air strikes pounded Al Qaeda-controlled positions…
Bhubaneswar, March 13 (IANS) As many as 57 Maoist supporters, including 25 women, surrendered before Odisha Police on Sunday, taking the total number of those who have surrendered in the last one week to 315….
Kabul, March 13 (IANS) At least 24 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in military operations in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, an official statement said on Sunday. The operation, which still continues, was launched…
Baghdad, March 13 (IANS) Iraqi border guards on Saturday repelled an attack by Islamic State (IS) militants on an outpost near the border with Saudi Arabia in western Iraqi province of Anbar, a local security…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh on Saturday slammed Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad for drawing a parallel between the RSS and terror outfit Islamic State (IS), saying it showed the “ideological…
Baghdad, March 12 (IANS) At least 44 Islamic State militants were killed on Saturday in air strikes and clashes with Iraqi security forces in Anbar province, a provincial security source said. The Iraqi security forces…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) We need to create more weapons for peace and not new weapons for war, former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin said on Saturday. Speaking at a session on “Creating…
Paris, March 12 (IANS) The names of three of the Paris attackers have appeared in the Islamic State’s files, the media reported. Samy Amimour, Foued Mohamed-Aggad and Omar Ismail Mostefai, the three men who carried…
Cairo, March 12 (IANS) The Arab League on Friday declared the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah paramilitary group as a terrorist organisation, Egypt’s state-run Ahram online reported. The decision was backed by all member states except for…
Rome, March 11 (IANS/AKI) An attorney, a doctor and several IT experts are among 122 would-be suicide-bombers on a stolen list of over 1,700 alleged Islamic State members published this week by Syrian website Zaman…
Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh), March 11 (IANS) As many as 56 Maoist guerrillas surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region on Friday while in a separate incident three central paramilitary personnel were wounded in a tunnel explosion. In the…
Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) Gunmen shot dead a senior military officer in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday in a terror attack, officials said. The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility shortly after the incident….
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking to quash a criminal case against Gujarat Police personnel involved in the Ishrat Jahan shoot-out case in view of…
Sukna: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a press conference at Sukna of Darjeeling District, West Bengal on Nov. 5, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) The Anti-Terrorist Front of India (ATFI) that…
Damascus, March 11 (IANS) The Islamic State (IS) has executed a poet and his son on accusations of apostasy in Syria’s Deir al-Zour province. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the extremist…