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BEIRUT: The Islamic State (IS) group launched a ferocious assault on a city in eastern Syria, leaving more than 30 militants and regime fighters...

KUNDUZ: The Taliban launched an assault on Kunduz, which was the scene of intense fighting on Monday, one year after the Islamist militia briefly took over the northern Afghan city following a lightning offensive, an AFP correspondent said.

KARACHI: Chairman All Karachi Tajir Ittehad (AKTI) Atiq Mir on Friday issued an ultimatum to the Sindh government demanding an immediate extension of Rangers special policing powers in the city, ARY News reported.

The provincial capital of Sindh, Karachi, has been declared 5th most polluted city in the world, according to a report of World Health Organisation.

KABUL: Taliban fighters were holding out against Afghan troops in Kunduz on Friday, a day after government forces recaptured most of the northern city that had fallen to the militants in their biggest victory of a 14-year insurgency.

KUNDUZ: Afghan Taliban fighters on Monday seized control of a 200-bed hospital in Kunduz city in the north, a spokesman for the militants said.

KARACHI: For years Karachi's walls have been spattered with the bloodstains of murder victims and scrawled with graffiti touting everything from sectarian hatred to quack cures for erectile dysfunction.

NEW YORK: Two New York City women have been arrested in an alleged conspiracy to build a bomb and wage a "terrorist attack" in the United States, according to a federal criminal complaint made public on Thursday.

BEIJING: A city in China's violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang has banned matches and destroyed more than 20,000 boxes of them as part of efforts to fight terror attacks, a state-run newspaper said.