Amman: Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside Syrian troops on Sunday and Israel threatened more attacks on Syria to rein the militia in, highlighting the risks of a wider regional conflict if planned peace talks fail.
Activists said it was the fiercest fighting in Syria's two year-old civil war involving Hezbollah, a Shi'ite group backed by Iran which they said appeared to be helping President Bashar al-Assad secure a vital corridor in case Syria fragments.
Speaking from Qusair near the border with Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, activist Hadi Abdallah said Syrian warplanes bombed the town in the morning and shells were hitting the town at a rate of up to 50 a minute. At least 32 people were killed.
"The army is hitting Qusair with tanks and artillery from the north and east while Hezbollah is firing mortar rounds and multiple rocket launchers from the south and west," he said....
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06:23 AM, May 20, 2013
Jammu: The BSF is all geared up and alert to foil any infiltration bid by militants from across the Indo-Pak border, said a senior BSF officer. "We will not allow infiltration to take place...BSF troops are alert to foil it," IG BSF, Jammu Frontier, Rajeev Krishna told reporters at Jammu railway station after flagging-off a special coach for para military forces. "International boundary in Jammu is sensitive...there have been incidents...
01:20 AM, May 19, 2013
Karachi: At least four people were killed and seven others injured in a string of attacks by militants targeting liberal political parties ahead of the May 11 polls. A convoy of an independent candidate came under attack in Sibi, killing 4 people. Seven people were injured when militants attacked the offices of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and National Party in other parts of the Balochistan province. Police said that despite...
03:26 PM, May 06, 2013
Srinagar: In a major strike, terrorists on Friday killed four policemen in Sopore area of Baramulla district in North Kashmir. Terrorists opened indiscriminate fire on a police team near Haigam, 65 kms from Srinagar, on Sopore-Kupwara road on Friday evening, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Abdul Gani Mir told PTI. "Four cops - a head constable, constable and two Special Police Officers (SPOs) - were martyred in the attack," Mir...
07:09 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Mogadishu: At least 19 people were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday in suicide bombings and assaults by al Shabaab militants linked to al Qaeda, breaking a fragile return to peace in Mogadishu. A bomb exploded outside law courts in the city as gunmen stormed the compound. Security forces then arrived and battled the fighters inside. Later, a bomb exploded near an African Union and Turkish Red Crescent convoy...
07:20 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Two BSF personnel have been injured in firing at Chanapora in Srinagar on Thursday. The police said that two BSF vehicles were fired upon by unidentified terrorists. ...
10:03 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Security forces in Kashmir claim to have arrested an alleged Pakistani terrorist in Srinagar. The man is suspected of involvement in March 13 fidayeen attack on a CRPF camp in Bemina, Srinagar which led to death of five CRPF personnel. ...
08:00 AM, Mar 15, 2013
Pakistan police claimed on Wednesday they had arrested 11 children, some as young as 10, who were allegedly being used by Baloch militants for "subversive activities" like planting bombs in Quetta. The children were detained during a raid conducted late Tuesday night but the seven men who had lured them managed to escape, Quetta police chief Mir Zubair Mahmood told a news conference. ...
08:35 PM, Mar 13, 2013
At least five security personnel were killed while two attackers were also shot dead in a major fidayeen (suicide) attack by a group of suspected terrorists on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Srinagar's Bemina area on Wednesday morning. ...
11:30 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Militants on Saturday shot dead two policemen in Jammu and Kashmir's Handawara town. The two policemen were admitted to a hospital but they both succumbed to their injuries soon after being shot. ...
01:03 PM, Mar 02, 2013
A sarpanch from Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district became the fifth victim of suspected militants when he was shot dead on Sunday. Minister of State for Home Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo said, "The sarpanch had been alotted two personal security officers and an inquiry has been ordered as to where they were when the attack took place." ...
07:39 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Suspected militants have murdered the elected village official in Baramulla. Javid Wani was shot at by militant at Kalantra and later died. He is the fifth sarpanch to be murdered by the militants. ...
11:40 PM, Feb 24, 2013
At least four persons were killed and seven others injured on Monday when militants, including suicide bombers, stormed a government complex in the restive Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan, officials said. At least two explosions and heavy gunfire were heard after the militants barged into Khyber House, the office of the political administrator of Khyber tribal region. ...
02:11 PM, Feb 18, 2013
A powerful improvised explosive device (IED), uranium and explosive materials were recovered on January 24, triggering the authorities to tighten security across Assam in the run-up to the Republic Day celebrations, the police said. Patrolling army men of the Red Horns Division recovered the IED, weighing more than eight kg, 1.5 kg of uranium, some electronic detonators, splinters and wires from Gachbari under Baihata Chariali police station of Kamrup (Rural)...
05:00 PM, Jan 24, 2013
More than 10 suspected al Qaeda operatives were killed by an explosion in a house in south Yemen where they were making bombs and at least three others died in a drone strike, tribal and official sources said on Sunday. A bomb ripped through a house in the province of al-Bayda on Saturday night, the state news agency Saba and a local official said. ...
07:55 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Six security personnel were on Tuesday killed and 16 others injured when militants attacked a checkpost in the restive Khyber tribal region of Northwest Pakistan. Militants attacked a checkpost in Shalobar area in Khyber Agency. ...
11:30 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Suspected militants on Sunday shot at and injured a woman panchayat member in Sopore area in Baramulla district of North Kashmir. Militants shot Zoona, wife of Mohammad Ramzan, in the neck at her house at Hardshiva Sopore, some 52-km from here, police said. ...
11:43 AM, Jan 13, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah has called for a security meet in the wake of yet another attack on a sarpanch in Kashmir - third in the series of latest attacks in 2013 on panchayat representatives by suspected militants. On Saturday, the sarpanch was injured and admitted to a hospital in a critical condition. ...
07:45 AM, Jan 13, 2013
Addressing the issue of extremist safe haven in Pakistan requires more than a military solution, US President Barack Obama said on Friday, noting that Islamabad has a crucial role to play in bringing peace and stability in Afghanistan. ...
05:38 AM, Jan 12, 2013
At least 16 militants were killed and seven others injured in a coordinated attack by US drones which fired a volley of missiles at three Taliban hideouts in the restive South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan on January 6. Four CIA-operated spy planes carried out the attack in Babargarh area of South Waziristan, security officials said. ...
05:00 PM, Jan 06, 2013
