BAMAKO: Malian security forces on Saturday stormed a hotel used by United Nations staff and freed four hostages held there by suspected Islamist militants during a nearly 24-hour siege in which 12 people died.
DUBAI/SANAA: Yemen's dominant Houthi group and its army allies fired a Scud missile at Saudi Arabia which the kingdom said it shot down on Saturday, in a major escalation of two months of war.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said some local elements and foreign forces are creating hurdles in China-Pakistan Economic Corridor programme which is vital for progress and development of Pakistan, ARY News reported.
KARACHI: Rangers personnel conducted a pre-dawn raid near MQM headquarters’ Nine Zero and arrested a man, reportedly a Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) worker, ARY News reported.
ISLAMABAD: Federal Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has said that the government has not made its decision of sending its combat forces to Yemen, ARY News reports.
WAZIRISTAN: Pakistan armed forces have killed at least 80 terrorists in Operation Khyber-2 launched by the army to rid tribal areas of militants, ARY News reported.
QUETTA: Around 1,000 Pakistani paramilitary troops backed by helicopters are battling separatists in the country's restive southwest, with the rebel death toll rising to 13 Thursday on the second day of fighting.
KABUL: The United States is considering slowing a planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan to ensure that "progress sticks" after more than a decade of war, new Defense Secretary Ash Carter said during an unannounced visit to Kabul on Saturday.
ISLAMABAD/QUETTA/LAHORE: Kashmir Solidarity Day was observed across the country and Azad Jammu and Kashmir today with rallies to express support to Kashmiris right to self-determination, ARY News reported Thursday.
BEIJING: China’s powerful Central Military Commission will widen anti-graft inspections of the country's armed forces, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday, as part of Beijing's sweeping campaign to weed out corruption.
SANAA, YEMEN: Drone strikes killed nine suspected Al-Qaeda militants Saturday in southeast Yemen, where the US military launched a failed operation last month to rescue an American hostage, security and tribal sources said.
LONDON: A British judge on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a Pakistani man to take Britain to court over his alleged unlawful detention and torture by UK and US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, his lawyers said.
DONETSK: Fresh volleys of artillery fire were heard across many parts of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, a Ukrainian government statement said, after Kiev warned again of rebel preparations for a fresh offensive.
HELMAND: On watch for a possible Taliban attack, Afghan forces on Tuesday patrolled the perimeter and manned guard towers of a vast military base deserted by U.S. and British forces in a volatile southern province.
KUWAIT: A Saudi court has sentenced 13 people, including an Afghan and a Qatari, to between 18 months and 30 years in prison for plotting an Al-Qaeda attack against US forces.