Tag: attack

Taliban will have to be defeated, says Afghanistan

KABUL: Afghanistan said on Tuesday the Taliban would have to be defeated on the battlefield after the United States (US) President Donald Trump rejected...

15 dead in Yemen checkpoint suicide attack

ADEN: At least 15 people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a checkpoint in southeastern Yemen run by local forces backed by the...

CTD arrests ‘facilitator’ in Peshawar agricultural directorate attack case

PESHAWAR: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday arrested the alleged 'facilitator' of an attack on Directorate of Agriculture Extension in Peshawar which left...

Eleven Afghan soldiers killed in latest attack in Kabul

KABUL: Militants on Monday raided a military academy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, killing 11 soldiers, the fourth major attack in a spate of...

Heart attack six-fold higher risk rises in week post-flu: study

NEW ENGLAND: People who get the flu may face a six-fold higher risk of heart attack in the week following infection, said a study...

Kabul hotel attack killed 40 people: Afghan authorities

KABUL: At least 40 people were killed in the attack on Kabul's luxury Intercontinental Hotel at the weekend, official figures showed Thursday -- almost...

Turkish attack on Kurds reverberates in Germany

BERLIN: The Turkish army's attack on the Kurdish YPG militia is creating blowback in Germany and mobilising diaspora communities. A sustained Turkish intervention in...

Gunmen attack Save the Children office in Afghanistan

NANGARHAR: Gunmen blasted their way into Save the Children's office in Afghanistan's restive east on Wednesday, witnesses and officials said, in an ongoing attack...

Houthi rocket attack in Yemen kills nine, including journalist

TAIZ: Houthi rebel rocket fire killed nine people, including a journalist and a child, in Yemen's southwest province of Taiz on Monday, a government official...

Five dead, four injured in Seoul motel attack

SEOUL: Five people were killed and four others were hospitalised Saturday in an arson attack on a motel in downtown Seoul, police said. A 53-year-old...

Bike path attack defendant willing to offer guilty plea

NEW YORK CITY: An Uzbek man charged with killing eight people by ramming a truck down a New York City bike path is willing...

TTP claims responsibility for attack on Rao Anwar

KARACHI: Banned Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Wednesday claimed the responsibility of the suspected suicide attack on SSP Malir Rao Anwar Yesterday and issued...

Memorial office torched in ‘terrorist’ attack in Ingushetia

INGUSHETIA: Memorial says its office in Ingushetia has been torched in what a senior member of the Russian human rights group called a "terrorist"...

Putin says Turkey not behind attack on Russian base in Syria

MOSCOW: The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) attack on the Russian base in Syria was a provocation aimed at destroying previous agreements, Russian President Vladimir...

New York bomb attack suspect indicted on 6 counts

WASHINGTON: The suspect accused of attempting to bomb a New York subway transitway was indicted by a grand jury on six federal charges Wednesday...

Special investigation team to probe Quetta suicide bombing

QUETTA: A special investigation team has been set up to probe into Tuesday’s terror attack near the Balochistan Assembly building in Quetta, which claimed...

TTP terrorists involved in attack on Major Ishaq killed in DI...

  RAWALPINDI: Security forces in an intelligence-based operation in Kulachi tehsil of Dera Ismail Khan on Thursday killed two terrorists involved in an attack that resulted in...