Daesh
- Pakistan
Daesh planning to carry out suicide attack in Pakistan
Quetta: The Balochistan police have issued a threat alert for a suicide attack on security forces in Pakistan’s Quetta, local media reported. In a statement, Quetta’s central police office said it had…
- Middle East
Egypt: Eleven soldiers killed in armed attack in Sinai
Cairo: At least eleven Egyptian troops were killed and five others wounded in clashes with terrorists in western Sinai, the Egyptian army said in a statement. The clashes took place on Saturday…
- Middle East
Iraq detains top leader of Islamic State group, Al-Qaeda
Baghdad: Iraq said on Monday it has detained a top leader of the Islamic State group and a longtime al-Qaeda operative in a cross-border operation. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi tweeted the…
- World
ISIS threat forces US to release security advisory for its citizens in Kabul
Kabul: A fresh threat from Islamic State has forced the US to release a security advisory for its citizens asking them to avoid travelling to the Kabul airport unless they receive instructions…
- World
Al-Qaeda operates under Taliban protection: UN report
Kabul: The United Nations has warned in a new report that the threat from terror groups such as Daesh and Al-Qaeda is expanding in many places in Afghanistan. It said the security…
- Featured News
‘Hell hath no fury like a superpower in decline’
By Saeed Naqvi In 1952, like a bolt from the blue, came UP Chief Minister, Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant’s order abolishing zamindari (landlordism). The abrupt drop in prestige and lifestyle caused a…
- World
ISIS could regain capacity to orchestrate attacks in 2021: UN official
United Nations: The threat posed by ISIS to international peace and security is on the rise again and the terror group could regain the capacity to orchestrate attacks in different parts of the…
- World
Do not let mosques promote hatred, submit sermon recordings: Sri Lanka govt
COLOMBO: In a bid to prevent the propagation of hate speeches, the Sri Lankan government on Friday ordered the trustees of all the mosques to submit copies of sermons in new fallout…
- Middle East
Daesh kidnaps 8 civilians from Iraq’s Anbar provinces
Baghdad: Eight civilians from Iraq’s western Anbar provinces have been kidnapped by Daesh terrorist group, reports Sputnik. Out of eight kidnapped, five civilians are the resident of Rawah district. Along with that…
- World
Hundreds flee US-backed Syria battle for last Daesh holdout
Near Baghouz: The ferocious battle for the Daesh group’s last bastion in eastern Syria entered its fifth day on Wednesday, as exhausted families left the ever-shrinking scrap of land where holdout jihadists…
- Syria
US-backed Syria force announces final push against Daesh
Qamishli: The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said Saturday it had begun the “final battle” to oust the Daesh group from the last scrap of territory it holds in eastern Syria. IS overran…
- News
Daesh in Syria will be defeated within a month, says SDF chief
BEIRUT: Military operations against the Daesh group in Syria are wrapping up and the last pockets of the militants’ self-proclaimed “caliphate” will be flushed out within a month, a top commander said.…
- Kashmir
Here’s what DGP says about presence of ISIS in Kashmir
Srinagar: While saying that only a section of youth is being radicalized, Director General of Police of Jammu and Kashmir Dilbagh Singh claimed that global militant outfit ISIS has no major footprints…
