Srinagar/New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) The NIA on Wednesday widened its net in the Kashmir terror money trail and conducted searches at a dozen locations in Jammu and Kashmir, including the houses of a prominent…
Srinagar, Aug 16 (IANS) A top LeT commander was killed on Wednesday in a gunfight between the security forces and the militants in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Police said security forces surrounded an orchard in…
By Francis Kokutse Accra, Aug 16 (IANS) Describing terrorism as the “gravest threat the world has faced since World War Two”, Indian Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar has blamed the UN for…
Baghdad, Aug 16 (IANS) At least 10 security personnel were killed on Wednesday in three attacks by Islamic State (IS) militants on military bases in Iraq’s Salahudin province, an official said. Six suicide bombers wearing…
Bogota, Aug 16 (IANS) Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos oversaw the final withdrawal of weapons handed over by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, the media reported on Wednesday. At a ceremony in…
Kabul, Aug 16 (IANS) Afghan security forces have discovered around 40 bodies in a mass grave in the northern Sari Pul province during the government forces’ cleanup operations in the troubled region. The bodies were…
Abuja, Aug 16 (IANS) At least 27 persons were killed and 80 injured when suspected Boko Haram terrorists blew themselves up at three different places in the Nigerian town of Mandari, the media on Wednesday….
New Delhi/Srinagar, Aug 16 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday raided a dozen places in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with its ongoing probe into the terror funding to stoke unrest in the…
Lagos, Aug 16 (IANS) Scores of people were feared killed by suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers at a market in Nigeria’s Borno State, media reports said. A security source who confirmed the attacks on Tuesday…
Baghdad, Aug 16 (IANS) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pledged to liberate “every inch” of Iraq’s land from Islamic State (IS), confirming that Iraqi troops are preparing for a new offensive. “We will not leave…
Nairobi, Aug 16 (IANS) Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab on Tuesday killed five police officers and injured another during an ambush in Garissa County in Kenya, police said. Police said an unknown number of Al-Shabaab militia…
Baghdad, Aug 16 (IANS) Iraq’s paramilitary Hashd Shaabi units foiled two suicide bomb attacks by Islamic State (IS) militants in Salahudin province, the media reported. The attack took place in the early morning on Tuesday…
Cairo, Aug 16 (IANS) Two suspected extremists were killed in a shootout with security forces in a desert area in southwestern Egypt, the interior ministry said. According to the ministry on Tuesday, the two suspects…
Sukma/Jagdalpur, Aug 15 (IANS) Three members of a Special Task Force were injured, one of them seriously, on Tuesday when Maoists triggered a landmine blast in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, official sources said. The security…
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) India is capable of fighting any security threat on “borders, space or cyberspace”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday, as he urged militants in Kashmir to shun violence and…
Kohima, Aug 15 (IANS) Thousands of people across Nagaland on Tuesday celebrated India’s Independence Day amidst a boycott call by the Myanmar-based NSCN-K. Chief Minister Taditui Rangkau Zeliang unfurled the tricolour at the Secretariat Plaza…
Jerusalem, Aug 15 (IANS) Israeli police on Tuesday said it arrested a senior Islamic leader over suspected “incitement”. Sheik Raed Salah is the head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, a movement Israel…
Srinagar, Aug 15 (IANS) The Hizbul Mujahideen militant outfit has named Mohammad Bin Qasim as its new commander in Kashmir following the killing of Yasin Yatoo on Sunday. Pakistan-based Hizb chief Syed Salahuddin in a…
Dhaka, Aug 15 (IANS) A suspected militant of the Neo JMB group blew himself up with his suicide vest during a raid by security forces on a hotel in Bangladesh’s capital city on Tuesday, police…
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said he was firmly committed to fight problems in Kashmir with love because neither bullets nor brickbats will solve the dragging issue. In his…