Al-Hasakah (Syria), Feb 23 (IANS/AKI) The Islamic State has released 43 Christians in northeast Syria after holding them for a year in captivity, reports said on Tuesday. The Christians, freed late on Monday, were abducted…
Kabul, Feb 23 (IANS) Taliban militants on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 14 people in Parwan province. A Taliban suicide bomber targeted police patrol team in Siagurd district of Parwan province…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the government will take firm and effective steps to deal with cross-border terrorism, and called terror a “global threat”. Mukherjee also congratulated the security…
Sydney, Feb 23 (IANS) The teenage bride of an Australian terror suspect was arrested by counter-terrorism police on Tuesday for possessing documents connected to an attack. New South Wales (NSW) counter-terrorism authorities arrested the teenaged…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the government would take firm and effective steps to deal with cross-border terrorism. “Firm and effective steps will be taken to deal with any…
Canberra, Feb 23 (IANS) It is “inevitable” that another terrorist attack will occur in Australia, a former leading military advisor has said on Tuesday. David Kilcullen, who was an advisor to the US military in…
Islamabad, Feb 23 (IANS) At least 12 militants were killed in a fighting between insurgents and police in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, an official said. At least two policemen were also injured during…
Kabul, Feb 22 (IANS) At least 14 people were killed and 11 others injured as a suicide bombing rocked Afghanistan’s eastern province of Parwan on Monday, a provincial government spokesman told Xinhua. “The blast took…
Tehran, Feb 22 (IANS) Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday said that any ceasefire in Syria should not give an advantage to terrorist groups wreaking havoc in the Arab country. A ceasefire (in…
Srinagar, Feb 22 (IANS) The 48-hour long gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pampore town in which six people, including five security personnel, were killed so far ended on Monday evening with security forces saying they…
Riyadh, Feb 22 (IANS) A group of 32 Shias has been put on trial in Saudi Arabia over charges of spying for Iran, media reported on Monday. The defendants who appeared before the Saudi Special…
Baghdad, Feb 22 (IANS) At least 40 militants were killed on Monday when security forces repelled an attack by the Islamic State (IS) terror group in Iraq’s Anbar province. The incident occurred when the IS…
Manila, Feb 22 (IANS) A six-year-old boy was killed and 38 persons were injured in a grenade explosion in the Philippines province of Sultan Kudarat, authorities said on Monday. Alton John Antonio was killed when…
Kabul, Feb 22 (IANS) At least 33 Taliban militants were killed in week-long infighting between the supporters and opponents of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor in Afghanistan. The clashes occurred in Nawa district of…
Kabul, Feb 22 (IANS) At least six civilians were killed in Afghanistan’s Takhar province as an explosive device went off in a house, police said on Monday. All the victims in Sunday’s blast belong to…
Srinagar, Feb 22 (IANS) Security forces and separatists fired at each other on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pampore town where a group of armed militants has been holed up for three days, police said….
Cairo, Feb 22 (IANS) The Syrian government has condemned the terrorist attacks that hit the Shia district of Sayyidah Zaynab, on the outskirts of Damascus and the Al Zahraa district in Homs, north of Damascus,…
Srinagar, Feb 22 (IANS) Intermittent exchange of fire began Monday morning between holed up militants and the security forces in Pampore town of Kashmir where a group of heavily armed guerrillas is holed up for…
Cairo, Feb 21 (IANS/EFE) A Syrian man helped his 15-year-old son, who has been fighting among jihadists for a year, carry out a suicide attack in the Syrian city of Aleppo, and recorded a video…
Ankara, Feb 21 (IANS) The outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) on Sunday kidnapped three journalists from Turkey’s Anatolia news agency, media reports said. A group of PKK militants kidnapped the three reporters in Nusaybin town…