Lucknow, Aug 20 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday inaugurated the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) regional office and residential premises here. Speaking at the event, Adityanath…
Canberra, Aug 20 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Sunday released details of the “strategy for protecting crowded places” to stay one step ahead of the ever-changing threat of global terrorism. Turnbull said that…
Madrid, Aug 20 (IANS) Spain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia will attend a special Mass at Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia church to mourn the 14 people killed in vehicle attacks, the media reported. Police are still…
Dhaka, Aug 20 (IANS) A tribunal here in Bangladesh on Sunday awarded death penalty to 10 people for planting a bomb in 2000 to assassinate then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Dhaka’s…
Darjeeling, Aug 20 (IANS) All police stations in the northern West Bengal hills have been put on “high alert” and counter-insurgency strategies are being followed after two major blasts in the past 24 hours in…
Baghdad, Aug 20 (IANS) Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi on Sunday announced the launch of a military offensive to recover the Tal Afar city from the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. In a televised address,…
Jerusalem, Aug 20 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia next week to discuss “recent development” in Syria. A statement released by the Prime Minister’s…
Moscow, Aug 20 (IANS) The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a knife attack that left seven persons injured in the Russian city of Surgut, media reports said. “The attacker in the…
Jerusalem, Aug 20 (IANS) A Palestinian teenager who attempted to carry out a knife attack was shot dead by Israeli Border Police in the West Bank, the police said. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said in…
Baghdad, Aug 20 (IANS) A total of 17,000 Iraqi displaced people have returned to their homes in the eastern part of Mosul in the past two months, government officials said. Iraq’s Minister of Displacement and…
Barcelona, Aug 20 (IANS) The Spanish government decided to maintain its anti-terrorism alert level at 4 but pledged to reinforce security measures at the same time, the Interior Ministry said. The decision was made during…
Baghdad, Aug 20 (IANS) The Iraqi forces killed 66 Islamic State (IS) militants, including suicide bombers,near the city of Mosul in Iraq, defence officials said. The troops, backed by the army’s gunships, conducted an operation…
Madrid, Aug 19 (IANS) An international manhunt was underway on Saturday for the driver of a van that killed 13 persons in Barcelona and injured over a hundred people. Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan national,…
Rome, Aug 19 (IANS) Italy was on security alert on Saturday in the wake of Spain’s double terror attacks that left at least 14 people dead, including three Italian nationals. Embassies, airports, churches and tourist…
New York, Aug 19 (IANS/WAM) Civilians in a conflict are not a target, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at a special event on Saturday marking World Humanitarian Day, which honours aid workers and pays homage…
Srinagar, Aug 19 (IANS) Security forces on Saturday carried out massive searches in nearly a dozen villages of Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district but did not find any militants during the operation, police said. “The…
Kandahar, Aug 19 (IANS) As many as 70 Taliban militants were killed and scores injured after Afghan aircraft dropped bombs on a militant convoy in Kandahar province, an official said on Saturday. The incident took…
Moscow, Aug 19 (IANS) At least seven persons were injured in a knife attack in the Russian city of Surgut on Saturday, officials said. The man, who apparently stabbed passersby on the street at random,…
Srinagar, Aug 19 (IANS) An activist of Jammu and Kashmir’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was shot dead by militants in the state’s Anantnag district on Saturday, police said. Militants barged into the house of…
Damascus, Aug 19 (IANS) The Syrian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah group on Saturday launched an offensive against the Islamic State (IS) militants in the Qalamoun region, in tandem with an operation by the Lebanese…