Brussels: US Secretary of State John Kerry urged NATO on Tuesday to prepare for the possible use of chemical weapons by Syria on the same day that a senior Israeli military intelligence official said Syrian President Bashar Assad had used such weapons in March 2013 in his battle against insurgents.
It was the first time Israel had accused the embattled Syrian leader of using his stockpile of nonconventional weapons.
The assessment, based on visual evidence, could raise pressure on the US and other Western countries to intervene in Syria. Britain and France recently announced that they had evidence that Assad's government had used chemical weapons.
President Barack Obama has warned that the use of chemical weapons by Assad would be a "game changer" and has hinted that it could draw intervention....
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07:28 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Baga: Fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials said on Sunday, an attack that saw insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and soldiers spray machine-gun fire into neighborhoods filled with civilians. The fighting in Baga began on Friday and lasted for hours, sending people fleeing into the arid scrublands surrounding the community on Lake Chad. By Sunday,...
06:40 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Kabul: Insurgents killed six police officers at a checkpoint and a suicide bomber killed three civilians at a shopping bazaar in separate attacks on Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, while an independent security group warned 2013 is on track to be one of the most violent years of the war. April already has been the deadliest month of 2013 for security forces and Afghan and foreign civilians as the US and...
01:14 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Kabul: Insurgents wearing Afghan army uniforms launched a suicide attack and stormed a courthouse on Wednesday in a failed bid to free Taliban inmates, killing at least 44 people, half of them shot in the basement. Nine attackers were killed. The attack - one of the deadliest in the more than 11-year-old war - began about 8:30 am when nine men wearing suicide vests drove into the capital of Farah...
07:29 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Britain's Prince Harry says he killed Afghan insurgents during sorties against the Taliban while on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan where he was a gunner in Apache attack helicopters. ...
02:39 AM, Jan 22, 2013
Pakistani intelligence officials say they have found the bodies of nine militants dumped in the North Waziristan tribal region. Three intelligence officials say the nine people were shot several times in the head and chest. ...
08:06 PM, Dec 31, 2012
A bomb went off on a bus in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Saturday killing six people and wounding 48, police and a hospital official said. Pakistan's commercial capital and biggest city has seen numerous militant attacks over the past 10 years and is also plagued by violence between rival ethnic-based factions. ...
07:41 PM, Dec 29, 2012
The head of Pakistan's Taliban said his militia is willing to negotiate with the government but not disarm, a message delivered in a video given to Reuters on Friday. The release of the 40-minute video follows three high-profile Taliban attacks in the northern city of Peshawar this month - an attack by multiple suicide bombers on the airport, the killing of a senior politician and eight others in a bombing...
08:44 PM, Dec 28, 2012
A US Marine staff sergeant who urinated on dead Taliban insurgents and posed for photographs with the bodies has pleaded guilty to two charges in a military court, the Marine Corps said on Thursday. His sentence was a reduction in rank and forfeiture of $500 in pay. ...
11:55 AM, Dec 21, 2012
The Defa-e-Pakistan Council formed by Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed on Sunday launched a 'movement' to oppose the move to grant Most Favoured Nation-status to India. "On the pattern of a campaign against the reopening of NATO supply routes, today we announce the launching of a movement against giving India the status of Most Favoured Nation," Saeed said addressing thousands of people who joined a "peace march" to the Wagah land...
08:10 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Imphal: A powerful bomb went off at Tiddim ground near Imphal airport on Sunday, seconds after Army personnel in trucks passed the area. Official sources said the bomb, an improvised explosive device allegedly planted by insurgents to attack security personnel, went off at around 1.00 pm. They said the insurgents used remote-controlled device to explode the bomb. The officer-in-charge of nearby Kwakeithel police station, accompanied by a police force, went...
08:33 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Imphal: Insurgents of seven major outfits on Thursday asked the outsiders particularly migrant labourers to leave Manipur as their presence overwhelmed the identities, customs and cultures of minority communities who have been living in Imphal peacefully for some thousand of years. People in the state should stop letting houses, shops and lands to outsiders and hiring of their services for different works including masonry and construction of houses, business activities...
12:42 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Sairenkon: In April this year, ten boys were forcefully taken to militant training camps in Myanmar. The family members of three boys in this village are still living in fear. Mother of ex-child soldier said, "I am living in constant fear and think what will happen to my son in the future." The boys tell us that they were lured with the promise of money and cellphones. Although pressure from...
08:38 AM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: To shore up its ties with India, Myanmar government has ordered Manipur-based militant outfits to shut their camps and training facilities and leave its soil by June 10. Quoting intelligence inputs, official sources said the Myanmar Army's order was issued on May 24 -- three days before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh embarked on his visit to the neighbouring country -- and the move is considered as a goodwill...
04:47 PM, May 30, 2012
Imphal: Seven major insurgent outfits of Manipur on Thursday threatened action again anyone taking part in the election campaign of the ruling Congress in the state. In a joint statement, the insurgent bodies, who have a common goal of making Manipur an independent country, said elections were not meant to bring welfare for the people. Reacting to it, Manipur Assembly Speaker and senior Congress leader I. Hemochandra Singh said India...
04:44 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Kabul: Insurgents attacked a convoy of Afghan and international troops on Friday in eastern Afghanistan, starting a firefight that left about 30 of the attacking militants dead, NATO said. The joint Afghan-international force called for air support during the gunbattle in Shinwar district of Nangarhar province, the US-led coalition in Afghanistan said. No other information was disclosed and it is unclear whether any Afghan or coalition forces were killed or...
05:19 AM, Oct 29, 2011
Defence Department is working to encrypt the drone feeds ...
12:32 PM, Dec 18, 2009
It is not just weapon supply but also combat training that is imparted. ...
10:08 AM, Nov 18, 2009
Mohali: Wriddhiman Saha scored his third half-century in as many innings to keep Bengal fighting at 280 for 7 in testing conditions at the PCA Stadium on Friday. Saha’s 124-run alliance with Laxmi Ratan Shukla (62) proved vital to the visitors’ chances on an engaging day’s play against Group A table-toppers Punjab, captained by 20-year-old Mandeep Singh in Harbhajan Singh’s absence. Having been asked to bat, Bengal lost their openers...
12:23 PM, Jul 17, 2008
Arms, ammunition in large quantity was also recovered from the MLA’s houses. ...
11:24 PM, Aug 17, 2007
