Rabat, Dec 26 (IANS) Morocco dismantled nine terror cells during 2017 — a significant decrease in the number of busted terror cells compared to the last few years. In 2015, security services in the north…
Srinagar, Dec 26 (IANS) A top commander of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) outfit was killed in a gunfight with the security forces in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Tuesday. The police said the militant killed in…
Srinagar, Dec 26 (IANS) One militant was killed in an ongoing gunfight with the security forces in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Tuesday. S.P.Vaid, Jammu and Kashmir police chief said an encounter had started between…
Sanaa, Dec 26 (IANS) At least 32 people, including women and children, were killed Monday in airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led Arab coalition near the Yemeni capital and in the provinces of al-Hudaydah and…
Sanaa, Dec 26 (IANS) At least 11 people, including two minors, were killed and four others were injured on Monday in an aerial bombing carried out by the Saudi-led Arab coalition west of the Yemeni…
Hyderabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Top Maoist leader Ginugu Narsimha Reddy alias Jampanna on Monday surrendered before the Telangana police chief, following ideological differences with the Maoist outfit. The Central Committee member of the Communist Party…
Guwahati, Dec 25 (IANS) Ten days after his abduction, Arunabh Phukan, the son of BJP leader Dilip Phukan, was released by the anti-talk faction of Ulfa on Monday. The faction said it had suspected him…
Srinagar, Dec 25 (IANS) The Centre’s Special Representative Dineshwar Sharma on Monday visited the border district of Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said. It is the third visit of Sharma — a former…
Srinagar, Dec 25 (IANS) Asiya Andrabi, chief of the women’s separatist group “Dukhtaran-e-Milat” (Daughters of Faith) was on Monday released from a jail here, authorities said. Andrabi and her secretary, Fahmeeda Sofi, were booked in…
Lahore, Dec 25 (IANS) Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has opened an office of his Milli Muslim League (MML) here despite opposition by the Interior Ministry over an entry of “offshoots of proscribed entities into…
Kabul, Dec 25 (IANS) Eight people were killed and two injured on Monday in a suicide bomb attack near Afghanistan’s intelligence agency here, officials said. The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility in a statement on…
Kabul, Dec 25 (IANS) At least seven people were killed on Monday in a suicide bomb attack near Afghanistan’s intelligence agency here, officials said. The attacker, who was on foot, triggered the bomb around 8…
Kabul, Dec 25 (IANS) At least four people were killed on Monday in an explosion near an intelligence agency centre here, Afghan officials said. The explosion took place at around 7.20 a.m., in Shash Darak…
Mumbai, Dec 25 (IANS) The relatives of Kulbhushan Jadhav will reach Islamabad on Monday for a scheduled meeting with the death row prisoner, according to an activist. “His mother, Avanti Jadhav, and his wife are…
Cairo, Dec 25 (IANS) Nine terrorists were killed in a security raid conducted in the northeastern Egyptian province of Sharqiya, Egypt’s Interior Ministry announced on Sunday. Egyptian security forces killed the terrorists in a fire…
Mosul, Iraq, Dec 25 (IANS) More than 23,000 members of the Iraqi security forces were killed during the offensive to wrest control of the northern city of Mosul from the Islamic State, a parliamentary source…
Kabul, Dec 25 (IANS) At least 15 militants, involved in interruption of electricity cables and damaging power pylons, were killed following an air raid in an Afghan province, Defence Ministry said on Sunday. “An air-supported…
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) A roadside bomb killed at least three Pakistani security personnel in North Waziristan tribal region on Sunday, the military said in a statement. It said an improvised explosive device went off…
By Rajnish Singh New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Concerted action against militants and appointment of an interlocutor to carry forward the dialogue process were key aspects of Centre’s policy on Jammu and Kashmir in the…
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has issued summons to Hurriyat separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s younger son Naseem Geelani, asking him to come to Delhi for questioning in connection…