Islamabad: Thirty-four militants and three soldiers were killed in fighting in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, Xinhua reported. Eight other soldiers were injured in the clashes in Bara area of Khyber, the army said in a statement. The fighting erupted when militants attacked the security forces while they were carrying out search operations. The Khyber tribal region, near the Afghan border, is a stronghold of the Taliban militants. ...
03:58 AM, Oct 21, 2011
Mogadishu: Somali militants on Monday threatened to bring down Nairobi skyscrapers after Kenya sent hundreds of troops into Somalia. The threat emanated from the same lawless country in which the al-Qaida masterminds behind 1998 bombings of two US embassies sought refuge. The Kenyan invasion comes at a time when al-Shabab has been weakened by famine in its strongholds, has been pushed from the capital of Mogadishu by African Union troops...
03:58 AM, Oct 18, 2011
Islamabad: Nine Pakistani soldiers and 16 militants were killed on Monday when heavily-armed gunmen ambushed troops during a search operation in the country's restive Khyber tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials said. "Heavily-armed militants attacked security forces when they had on a routine patrolling at Bara area of Khyber agency," said a spokesman for the paramilitary 'Frontier Corps'. Nine soldiers died at the scene and three others were injured, the spokesman...
09:43 PM, Oct 17, 2011
Baghdad: Two explosions in a Shiite neighbourhood of eastern Baghdad killed 17 people and wounded around 50 others, Iraqi officials said. The blasts in the Sadr City neighbourhood on Thursday night, coming a day after attacks across the capital killed 25 people, served as a reminder of the lengths to which Sunni militants are trying to go in order to re-ignite sectarian tensions as American forces prepare to go home....
03:57 AM, Oct 14, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday urged the US to exercise restraint in making public statements that were adverse to bilateral relationship, Xinhua reported. Zardari, during a meeting with US envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Marc Grossman, also emphasised the need to develop a cooperative and joint roadmap to overcome the trust deficit, said the president's spokesman Farhatullah Babar. He claimed that no country had made greater contributions...
02:22 AM, Oct 14, 2011
Srinagar: Two militants were killed on Sunday in a fierce gun battle with security forces in the forest area of Kangan in central Kashmir's Ganderbal district. Officials said body of one militant has been recovered from the site of the encounter and search is on for the other. Acting on a tip-off, Army assisted by police launched search operation in Chattergul forests in Kangan area, 50 kms from Srinagar, on...
06:30 PM, Oct 09, 2011
Islamabad: At least 15 people, including members of an anti-Taliban militia, were killed on Sunday in a clash between security forces and heavily-armed militants in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan. The clash began when militants attacked a check post jointly manned by security forces and volunteers of an anti-Taliban militia in Bara area of Khyber tribal agency. The militants used heavy weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades, to target...
11:44 AM, Sep 18, 2011
KABUL: An assault by Taliban insurgents on the heart of Kabul's diplomatic and military enclave has ended after 20 hours, when security forces killed the last of six attackers, a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior said on Wednesday. "The operation just ended and 6 terrorists were killed by police. Details on casualties will be announced later," spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on Twitter. The insurgents had holed up in...
10:40 AM, Sep 14, 2011
London: Home Minister P Chidambaram has indicated that the blast in the Delhi High Court could have been carried out by home grown militants groups. "We can no longer point to cross-border terrorism as a source of terror attacks in India," Chidambaram told the BBC in an interview. He said the authorities were still trying to verify emails allegedly sent by two groups claiming responsibility for Wednesday's attack. The two...
10:55 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Islamabad: Thirty Pakistani children, who had gone for picnic to celebrate Eid and had mistakenly crossed into Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, have been taken hostage by militants, officials said. The children were from Pakistan's Bajaur tribal region, TV channels quoted an official as saying. It was not clear which group has held them hostage but Pakistan army said that deputy chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Maulvi Faqir, who belonged to Bajajur,...
02:35 PM, Sep 02, 2011
Islamabad: At least 40 Pakistani security personnel and 10 Afghan militants were killed on Saturday in a cross-border attack launched at four check-posts in the northwest tribal region, media reports said. The attack took place in Chitral, a mountainous town in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Xinhua reported citing Urdu TV channel Duniya. The security personnel belonged to the Chitral Scouts, Geo News said. Chitral borders Afghanistan's Badakhshan province. Sources said there were...
07:14 PM, Aug 27, 2011
Srinagar: Five militants and an Army officer were killed and two jawans injured as troops on Saturday foiled a major infiltration bid near the Line of Control in Gurez sector of Kashmir Valley. A large group of heavily-armed militants was trying to sneak into the Gurez Valley from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir when they were noticed by troops. The militants were challenged by the soldiers, leading to a gunbattle. "Five militants have...
06:11 PM, Aug 20, 2011
Beirut: The Syrian army shot dead 11 people in a western town near the Lebanese border on Thursday and stormed a northwestern town near Turkey's border, activists said. The shooting in the western town of Qusair also wounded many others, according to several Syrian human rights and activists groups. Anti-government protests are common in Qusair and, combined with the early morning assault on the town of Saraqeb near the Turkish...
01:46 AM, Aug 12, 2011
Islamabad: A US drone targeted a compound and a vehicle in the restive North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 25 militants of al-Qaeda linked Haqqani network, in the first such attack during the Islamic holy month of Ramzan. Eight militants were injured in the attack. They were taken to a hospital in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency. The injured are in a...
05:29 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Islamabad: Militants torched 10 tankers carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan in southern Pakistan, injuring five persons including the vehicles' drivers, police and witnesses said on Monday. Three drivers were among the five persons injured in the attack in Khairpur district of Sindh province, police said. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital. Doctors said two drivers were hit by bullets. According to police, the incident took place...
10:45 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Karachi: Unidentified gunmen on Friday killed seven Shia pilgrims in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province while seven people died in ethnic and sectarian violence in the country's financial capital in the last 24 hours. The Shia pilgrims were killed at a bus stand in Saryab district of Balochistan's provincial capital Quetta in the afternoon, according to police officials. "They were waiting for a bus preparing to go to Iran for a...
09:46 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Islamabad: At least one soldier was killed and seven others were injured on Sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a security check post in Pakistan's restive tribal belt, where 11 militants were also gunned down by troops. The bomber targeted the Chak Malai check post manned by Pakistani troops in South Waziristan tribal area, leaving one soldier dead and seven others injured, TV news channels reported. The...
12:24 PM, Jul 24, 2011
Ankara: A court has charged 14 suspected al Qaeda militants for allegedly planning to attack the US Embassy in the Turkish capital. The charges - which were filed by an Ankara court late on Friday, come as US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Turkey's cultural capital of Istanbul for a meeting on religious tolerance. The 14 suspects were captured just before Clinton's arrival. A 15th suspect was released,...
09:21 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani called on the United States on Sunday to share information about new al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri after US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he believed that Osama bin Laden's successor was in Pakistan. During his first trip to Kabul on Saturday as Pentagon chief, Panetta said he believed that the new al Qaeda leader was living in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border. The...
06:31 PM, Jul 10, 2011
Khar: About 60 Taliban militants crossed from Afghanistan into Pakistan and attacked a paramilitary checkpoint on Monday, killing a soldier and sparking a gunbattle that lasted more than two hours, a government official said. Such border unrest has raised tensions between the two countries over efforts to crack down on militant groups, including Taliban fighters and al-Qaida factions. Pakistan has complained that militants coming from Afghan bases have killed at...
03:18 AM, Jul 05, 2011
