Tag: Army

Army soldier martyred defusing bomb in North Waziristan Agency

WAZIRISTAN: A Pakistan Army soldier, Lance Havaldar Irfan Ali on Wednesday embraced martyrdom while defusing an improvised explosive device (IED) in the North Waziristan Agency, according to...

PAF helicopter extinguishing fire on Margalla hills

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Friday provided helicopters to extinguish fire that erupted on Margalla hills on Thursday night. The helicopters’ facility had been provided...

IHC judge claims complainants against him are ‘proxies’: report

ISLAMABAD: Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of  Islamabad High Court (IHC) stated that he had sufficient evidence to prove that complainants against him are mere "proxies"...

Pakistan Army ranked world’s 13th most powerful by US website

Pakistan’s military is the 13th most powerful amongst 25 armies in the world, as reported by Business Insider.   With a total population of 201,995,540, Pakistan has...

Present Faizabad sit-in reports or face contempt proceedings, IHC reiterates

Justice Siddique tells govt not to 'play hide and seek' with court ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday warned that it will...

Israel army hit Hamas in response to rocket shelling: IDF

TEL AVIV: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) confirmed on Saturday that its Air Force had hit several Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in...

Turkey issues warrants against 120 army personnel over Gulen links

ISTANBUL: A Turkish prosecutor issued detention warrants for 120 suspects from the military, the state-run Anadolu agency said on Thursday, the latest in a...

Israel Army detain three Palestinians in West Bank raids

WEST BANK: Israeli forces on Friday detained two Palestinians and seized two vehicles mostly during multiple overnight raids across the southern and northern West...

Two soldiers killed as US Army Apache crashes in California

CALIFORNIA: A US Army Apache attack helicopter crashed early Saturday morning in California, killing two soldiers, a spokesman for the Army said. An investigation is...

Turkish army launches new strikes on YPG militants in Afrin

AFRIN: The Turkish army said it launched new strikes on Saturday against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in northern Syria, amid mounting...

Libyan army launch operation against JEM militants

TRIPOLI: Commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces, backed by Tobruk-based House of Representatives in Libya, started an operation on Thursday against the Justice and Equality Movement...

Colombian army killed two ex-fighters after campaign

BOGOTA: Two former fighters from Colombia’s FARC rebels were killed in Antioquia province after campaigning for a political candidate for the now-demobilized guerrilla group,...

Israeli army arrest 11 Palestinians in raids

RAMALLAH: Israeli forces have rounded up 11 Palestinians in overnight raids in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli army. The individuals were arrested...

Israel army detonates bomb at Joseph’s Tomb holy site, says IDF

NABULUS: Israel army detonated a cellphone-operated explosive device that was planted at the entrance to the Joseph’s Tomb in the city of Nablus early...

Myanmar army’s admission of killings a ‘positive step,’ says Suu Kyi

YANGON: Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has welcomed an unprecedented army admission that security forces carried out extra-judicial killings of Rohingya Muslims as...

Turkey urges Russia, Iran to stop Syrian army offense

ANKARA: Turkey called on Russia and Iran on Wednesday to pressure Syrian authorities to halt a military offensive in Syria’s rebel-held northwestern province of...

Gunmen kill 13 in Senegal: army

DAKAR: Gunmen shot dead 13 people and wounded seven others on Saturday in the forest of Senegal’s southern region of Casamance, the army said. It...