AL-AMADIA, Iraq : Iraqi Kurds living near the border are wary of thousands of Kurdish fighters leaving Turkey for northern Iraq, and hope the move does not lead to more Turkish air and artillery strikes.For years, Turkey’s military has targeted fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...

CHUNIAN Waqas a Khan Members of Rana and Nakai clan are contesting in NA-141 constituency which consists of Chunian, Changa Manga, Pattoki and Habibabad areas having 309,577 registered voters. Both the families are very influential in this constituency where former chief minister Punjab Sardar ...

BAGHDAD : Three bomb attacks in Iraq on Wednesday killed 11 people, including four anti-Qaeda fighters who died when a suicide bomber struck as they gathered to collect their salaries, officials said.The bomber, who was on foot, detonated explosives at a police station in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, ...

GAZA CITY: Israeli warplanes launched three strikes early on Sunday on the Gaza Strip, targeting Palestinian group Islamic Jihad but causing no casualties, witnesses said. Two air strikes hit the southern town of Khan Yunis, targeting positions of the Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of Islamic ...

NOWSHERA VIRKAN - Political campaign is gaining momentum day by day here especially in For NA-100 as the general elections are approaching fast. All the parties and candidates are making efforts to win the voters’ trust. Public gatherings and corner meetings are being held after the ...

NOWSHERA VIRKAN - Political campaign is gaining momentum day by day here especially in For NA-100 as the general elections are approaching fast. All the parties and candidates are making efforts to win the voters’ trust. Public gatherings and corner meetings are being held after the ...

DARRET EZZA  - Fighters led by the radical Al-Nusra Front seized a strategic army base in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Monday, in a fresh setback for President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a watchdog said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported clashes in a ...

China has conducted a massive military exercise in the high altitude Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, close to the disputed borders with India, during which it has for the first time tested the multi-role J-10 fighter jets. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force have conducted ground attack training ...

SIRTE (AFP) - Fighters of Libya's new regime launched a fresh assault on the desert oasis of Bani Walid on Sunday as fighting died down in the city of Sirte, the other main holdout of Moamer Gaddafi diehards. "We have resumed combat operations and we have advanced from the northern front as well as ...

SIRTE (Reuters) - Two NTC fighters were killed on Saturday, medics said, as the new Libyan regime's forces pressed ahead in their assault on Muamer Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte after a four-day lull. Medic Fatih Danini at a makeshift field hospital in a mosque west of the city reported two dead and ...

LIBYA (AFP) - Fighters of Libyas interim rulers brandished new weapons Tuesday outside the oasis town of Bani Walid, where residents were fleeing fearing clashes with forces of Muamer Gaddafi. Talks were underway through mediators for the surrender of Gaddafi diehards but so far there is no result, ...

ADEN (AFP/Reuters) - Yemeni army troops have killed 30 'Al-Qaeda fighters in a clash in southern Abyan province, including a leading member of the militant network, the defence ministry said Tuesday. The militants were killed in "fierce fighting that lasted more than three hours" on the outskirts ...

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somalias hardline Shebab insurgents Friday said they will send fighters to Yemen to help an Al-Qaeda affiliate behind the failed Christmas Day jetliner bombing in its fight against government forces. Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansour, a senior official of the Shebab militia that ...

SRINAGAR (Reuters) Indian troops shot dead four freedom fighters as they tried to cross into Kashmir from the Pakistani side, the army claimed on Wednesday. We have foiled three major infiltration attempts in past one week, they are trying to send more and more before passes close, army spokesman ...

ISLAMABAD - Iranian Baloch human smugglers played a key role in ferrying many hardcore Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters to various Gulf Arab countries in 2002 when they fled Afghanistan to evade US-led military offensive, TheNation has reliably learnt. Background interviews and discussions with ...

SRINAGAR (AFP) - Three suspected freedom fighters and an Indian army soldier were killed in two separate gunbattles in revolt-hit Kashmir, police said Sunday. The overnight gunbattles took place during cordon and search operations launched by the army in the districts of Kupwara and Rajouri. Arms ...

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali Muslim fighters seized a town Wednesday and renewed attacks in the capital Mogadishu, ramping up an onslaught against newly-elected President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and his allies. At least 17 people, mainly fighters, were killed in fighting when the Shebab group attacked the ...

GAZA CITY (AFP) - There was no party, no celebrations when 22-year-old Aida al-Qaddumi finally got married this week. There were no regrets either - she said she was marrying to raise 'fighters' and asked only that she might die as a 'martyr' in Israel. Three weeks of a deadly Israeli offensive on ...

GAZA CITY - Palestinian fighters bombarded southern Israel on Thursday after a Hamas commander's house in northern Gaza was blown up in a blast which killed four people. The attacks started immediately after the explosion which Palestinian medics said also wounded 50 other people - including a ...