RAWALPINDI: Chief of Malaysian Army, General Tan Sri Raja Mohamed Affandi on Monday called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif, here at General Headquarters, the ISPR said in a statement.
WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday Pentagon officials have begun to examine how the U.S. military could better equip and train Iraqi troops after the recent fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to Islamic State insurgents.
WASHINGTON: The US Secret Service has requested $8 million to build a replica of the White House to be used in training agents to prevent incidents like last year's mansion intrusion, the agency's director said Tuesday.
TAIPEI: Taiwan's TransAsia Airways announced Wednesday that it would pay nearly half a million dollars in compensation to relatives of each of the victims of a dramatic plane crash earlier this month.
RAWALPINDI: Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asim Salim Bajwa has said that capacity building of police under the National Action Plan against terrorism is under way, ARY News reported.
HANOI: Four people were killed Wednesday when a Vietnamese military helicopter crashed minutes after it set off from southern Ho Chi Minh City, an army official told AFP.
MOSCOW: Kristina Pimenova has been dubbed "the most beautiful girl in the world" but her mother says the eight-year-old Russian supermodel is completely ignorant of her worldwide fame.
WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia has agreed to host training camps for moderate Syrian rebels as part of President Barack Obama'sbroad strategy to combat Islamic State militants who have taken over parts of Syria and Iraq, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
GENEVA: United Nations investigators voiced concern on Wednesday at the fate of boys forced to join Islamic State training camps in Syria and said that any decision by the United States to bomb the Sunni militant group "must respect the laws of war".