KABUL: Taliban militants killed at least 16 Afghan police and two civilians in western Badghis province after their three-day ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr...
DUBAI/ISTANBUL: Iranian forces have launched war games in an area near the border with Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Iran’s state media reported on Sunday, a...
ISLAMABAD: Fourteen Baloch insurgents including their commander on Wednesday surrendered their weapons in Rajanpur.
The insurgents expressed desire to join national mainstream and work for...
DHAKA: A suspected militant believed by Bangladesh police to have been among the planners of a July cafe attack that killed 22 people killed himself during a police raid on a hideout in the capital, police said on Sunday.
WASHINGTON: White nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathizers located mostly in the United States use Twitter with “relative impunity” and often have far more followers than militant Islamists, a study being released on Thursday found.
ALEPPO: Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, one of the militant group's longest-serving and most prominent leaders, has been killed in Aleppo in Syria, its Amaq News Agency reported on Tuesday in a statement distributed by the group's supporters.
WAZIRISTAN: House after house flicks by hundreds of feet beneath a military helicopter, many distinguished by one arresting feature: their roofs have been removed by the army to allow an "aerial view" of militants who may take refuge there.
DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested a suspected militant over the hacking to death of two gay rights activists, part of a spate of murders of intellectuals, writers and religious minorities, an officer said Sunday.
PHILADELPHIA: Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Jalil Abbas Jilani has urged the international community to play their role in resolving the Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India.
PARIS: Pakistan wants to upgrade its aging fleet of fighter jets in anticipation of a prolonged battle against Islamist militants, although the purchase of fifth-generation planes would only be a last resort, a senior air force official said.
WASHINGTON: Shortly after last November’s attacks on Paris by a Brussels-based Islamic State cell, a top U.S. counter-terrorism official traveling in Europe wanted to visit Brussels to learn more about the investigation.
JAKARTA: Indonesian police killed one suspected militant and arrested two more in raids across the country on Friday, a day after an attack by Islamic State suicide bombers and gunmen in the heart of the Southeast Asian nation's capital.
LAHORE: The law enforcement agencies have decided to conduct thorough scrutiny of educational institutions, primarily leading universities, after LEAs discovered nexus between students, professors and militant outfits.
DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY: Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish insurgent targets overnight after the militants staged what appeared to be their deadliest attack since the collapse of a two-year-old ceasefire in July and killed 16 government soldiers.
KHYBER AGENCY: A spokesman for militant group, 'Lashkar-e-Islam', Salahuddin Ayubi called journalists on Thursday to assure them he was alive after officilas of armed forces claimed he was among 30 fighters killed in air strikes in the Khyber Agency.