Tag: Fighting

At least 30 people were killed at the weekend in clashes between residents in Homs, a rights group said, in the first factional fighting...

Pakistan does not have the capacity to fight a prolonged battle with India, Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar said on Tuesday, adding that ties with...

Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is fighting to save his position in the face of seething anger from top generals and...

Rebels fought forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for a second day in the town of Zawiyah on Sunday, bringing the revolt against...

Forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh battled with tribal fighters in Yemen’s capital on Thursday in overnight clashes that killed dozens as a...

Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna squandered a one-set lead as they went down fighting to top-ranked American pair of Bob and...

A fighting Afghanistan on Wednesday lost to Pakistan's second side by five wickets in their first confrontation, with officials hoping a three-match series can...

The attack on the naval base in Karachi on Monday heaped further humiliation on a military already stunned by the killing of Osama bin...

“I want to live but my mother and father do not have enough blood to save my life; they secured me for more than...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban on Monday to cease fighting after the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, saying...

LONDON - Prince Harry has worked hard to shake off his wildchild image -- and his newfound maturity will be tested to the limit when he acts as best man at his brother Prince William's wedding. After highly-publicised indiscretions, William's younger brother now takes his responsibilities seriously and became the first royal in more than 25 years to serve in a war zone.
Third in line to the throne, 26-year-old Harry has a difficult path to tread. Though William is on course to

NEAR AJDABIYA - There was heavy fighting between Libyan loyalists and rebels west of Ajdabiya on Saturday afternoon, as insurgents pushed toward the town of Brega, an AFP correspondent reported.
Rocket, mortar and small arms fire could be heard, as the rebels, taking advantage of NATO air strikes on Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's forces, claimed they held desert terrain beyond Ajdabiya, along a coastal road that leads to the key oil town of Brega, 80 kilometres (50 miles) away.

PESHAWAR - The police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa need more special training, facilities and public support to counter militancy. Despite the challenges they have to face every day, the policemen have rendered valuable sacrifices in the war against terrorism. Late CCPO Malik Saad Khan, Abid Ali and Sifwat Ghayur were, to name the few, among those who laid their lives for restoring peace in terror struck parts of the country. The fact that the militants can attack the police in KP at will

KHAR - Pakistani officials said Friday that 50 militants and four soldiers had been killed in a district where the United States this week criticised the army's efforts to defeat insurgents.
The deaths, which could not be verified independently, were reported in Mohmand, tribal belt on the Afghan border singled out for criticism in a White House report flatly rejected by Islamabad.
Local administration official Maqsood Hassan told AFP that militants attacked a security force

ABIDJAN - Forces loyal to Ivory Coast's presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara launched a major assault on the presidential palace on Tuesday, driving home their campaign to oust Laurent Gbagbo after U.N. and French helicopters left his military bases in flames.
In a sign his support was crumbling, Alcide Djedje, Gbagbo's foreign minister, fled to the residence of the French ambassador in Abidjan, an Ivorian source said.
Sustained machinegun and heavy weapons fire rang

ABIDJAN - The streets of Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan were deserted Sunday while fighting abated near bastions of strongman Laurent Gbagbo after a four-day assault by rival forces, residents and AFP journalists said.
Terrified Abidjan residents have been in lockdown since the army of internationally recognised president Alassane Ouattara arrived Thursday after a lightning offensive across the country, seeking to unseat Gbagbo. In the administrative district Plateau,

ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo desperately clung to power Friday as explosions and gunfire rocked Abidjan as forces loyal to leader-in-waiting Alassane Ouattara closed in on his last bastion.
While the 65-year-old strongman remained silent, his whereabouts unknown, a close aide said he has no intention of giving himself up. Internationally recognised president Ouattara's forces swept into the economic capital Thursday with little resistance from Gbagbo's army.
As the