Tag: Terrorists

The ATS team had received a tip-off about their presence and had been tracking them since the past one week.

Tripoli: Libyan security forces have arrested a senior Islamic State (IS) leader in the city of Sirte, said an official on conditions of anonymity. Khalifa Barq was taken from his home by a special security force, the official of Sirte security department told Xinhua news agency on Friday. “The operation was based on intelligence information […]

Lucknow: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said a total of 619 terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir had been killed in gun battles with security forces as he highlighted the all-round improvement in internal and external security under the Narendra Modi government. He also clarified that the operations against militants had not been stopped […]

New Delhi: Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday expressed the hope that the United Nations would take a “categorical stand” against terrorism and “isolate” countries that fund and harbour terrorists, in an apparent reference to Pakistan. “I am happy that the issue of terrorism is at the forefront of the governments’ foreign policy world […]

Islamabad: A Pakistani court has extended by a month the detention of terrorist leader Hafiz Saeed, blamed for the Mumbai terror attack. On Tuesday, the Lahore High Court directed the counsel for Jamatud Dawa (JuD) chief Saeed to file a fresh application against the latest order of the Punjab Home Department extending his detention by […]

New York: Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Islamabad cannot take responsibility for peace and security in Afghanistan, adding that effective border management with Kabul is imperative to stop infiltration of terrorists. Speaking at the Asia Society seminar in New York, the minister said that the US cannot succeed in Afghanistan by waging war. He […]

Brussels: The European Commission is to propose the creation of a European intelligence agency modelled on the American CIA in order to confront the threat of terrorism and facilitate the sharing of information on suspected terrorists and those involved in conflicts abroad, officials said. The EC’s Interior Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos on Thursday made the announcement […]

Baghdad: Iraqi security forces on Monday killed 80 Islamic State (IS) terrorists during a search campaign in the liberated areas near the city of Tal Afar, the Iraqi military said. The soldiers of the 15 Infantry Division, backed by helicopter gunships, killed 65 IS terrorists and 15 suicide bombers wearing explosive belts at a village near […]

New York: The top US official overseeing South Asia diplomacy will visit Islamabad this week following US President Donald Trump’s stern warning to Pakistan against harbouring terrorists. Alice Wells, who is the Acting Assistant Secretary of State in-charge of South and Central Asia, will meet Pakistani officials during her visit, the State Department announced on […]

San Francisco: Responding to a call that Facebook should do away with the encryption that prevents police from accessing WhatsApp data, the company’s top executive has said such a move would make it difficult to track terrorists if government gets such access. The call for ditching the WhatsApp encryption emerged after five people were killed […]

Srinagar: The Indian Army, describing the Amarnath terror attack as “one reversal”, said on Saturday the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is under control and it will continue targeting terrorists. “The Amarnath Yatra attack has been one reversal but we will continue our operations, will continue targeting terrorists. We will continue improving the situation,” the Chinar […]

New Delhi: Vowing to take action against Pakistan-based terrorist groups in the wake of increased attacks on Indian security forces, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said that Narendra Modi government would not let “countrymen hang their heads in shame” and “respond without announcing”. “Bol ke nahin karengey, karke dikhayengey (we will not announce it […]

  Lahore: For the first time, Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif has publicly acknowledged that militant organisations are active in the country and questioned the policy to allow the “non-state actors” to cross the border and “kill” people in Mumbai, a media report said. Sharif, who has been disqualified to hold public office for […]

Baghdad: Islamic State terrorists have abducted 111 school children from various districts of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to use them in terrorist moves, a media report said on Tuesday. The abducted children, mostly aged between 10-15 years, have been transferred to the IS terrorist group’s educational and military centres for brainwashing, Iraq’s Arabic […]

The Border Security Force (BSF) foiled 11 attempts by terrorists in January to sneak into Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan, a senior BSF official has said