Tag: Forces

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) should not express its anger of political loneliness by criticising the security forces, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Lahore Womens’...

Turkish security forces killed at least 12 Kurdish militants after they were spotted crossing the border from Iraq, the military said on Saturday, while...

Security forces opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in Yemen’s second largest city Taez on Thursday, wounding dozens, witnesses and medics said. Central Security forces...

Taking the federal cabinet into confidence on the Abbottabad incident, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday urged all democratic forces to show maturity...

At least three insurgents were killed in Malabanda area of Lower Dir during a clash with security forces on Tuesday. According to a private television...

As Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was expressing his displeasure over Punjab police’s failure to present the record of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto case in...

The Algerian security forces have arrested seven men, mainly Algerians and Moroccans, who are suspected of supporting Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, press reports...

DAMASCUS - At least seven people were killed when Syrian security forces fired into a crowd in the flashpoint town of Homs, as nationwide protests showed no sign of abating, rights activists said on Monday. The deaths occurred when security forces opened fire with live rounds late Sunday to disperse demonstrators in the Bab Sba'a area of the town, 160 kilometres (100 miles) to the north of Damascus, witnesses said.
Two activists, who declined to be identified, spoke of seven

AJDABIYA - Libyan regime forces pounded rebels with heavy artillery west of Ajdabiya on Sunday, forcing hundreds of residents and some fighters to flee, as a refugee rescue operation in Misrata was underway.
"Gaddafi's forces approached the city, they bombed the western gate. The sound of the guns are coming closer, that's why many are leaving," said Omar Salim. Another civilian, 48-year-old Milud Ghait, appealed NATO to launch air strikes on the area.

AJDABIYAH - Rebels came under fire on the outskirts of Ajdabiyah on Sunday, hemming them in to their eastern outpost and denting their hopes of pushing west to try to end a stalemate in the Libyan war.
One witness said he saw around a dozen rockets land around the western entrance to town, which rebels wanted to use as a staging post to retake the oil port of Brega. Many fled the attack as loud explosions boomed across the town.
"There are still some guys out there at the

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary has said that the role of Armed forces has been clearly defined in Article 245 of the Constitution of Pakistan which envisages that the Armed Forces shall, under the directions of the Federal government, defend Pakistan against external aggression or threat of war, and, subject to law, act in aid of civil power when called upon to do so.
Addressing to visiting officers of Command and Staff College Quetta,

PESHAWAR - Pakistani troops and paramilitary forces, backed by helicopter gunships and warplanes, targeted Taliban positions in the tribal region of Mohmand near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing at least 18 militants, a regional government official said.
Pakistan's military has recently mounted an offensive in villages bordering Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar in pursuit of militants linked to al Qaeda and Taliban who want to destabilise the U.S. ally and impose

AMMAN - Syrian security forces sealed off the coastal city of Banias overnight following pro-democracy protests and killings by irregulars loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, witnesses said on Monday.
In the capital, students demonstrated at Damascus University's science college, students on the campus said. One activist said he received text messages saying security forces had killed one student and surrounded the campus. But a pro-government Facebook page said security

NICOSIA - Syrian security forces killed a total of 28 people on Saturday, human rights activists said Sunday. Twenty-six died at the funerals of protesters killed in and around the southern agricultural town of Daraa, while two more were shot dead in the industrial town of Homs, in west central Syria.
"Police and security services broke up peaceful demonstrations on Saturday by firing live ammunition, causing the death of 26 people," six Syrian human rights group said in a joint

NICOSIA - Syrian security forces killed 26 people at the funerals on Saturday of protesters killed in and around the southern town of Daraa the previous day, a human rights activist said.
"Police and security services broke up peaceful demonstrations on Saturday by firing live ammunition, causing the death of 26 people," six Syrian rights group said in a joint statement.
The funerals had been held for 17 people gunned down in the southern agricultural town of Daraa,

AMMAN - Syrian security forces opened fire on mourners near a mosque in the flashpoint city of Deraa after a mass funeral for pro-democracy protesters, two witnesses said on Saturday.
Security forces used live ammunition and tear gas to disperse thousands of people who were chanting freedom slogans after assembling near the old Omari mosque in the old quarter of the city, near the border with Jordan, the witnesses said. Dozens of people have been killed in a wave of protests

PESHAWAR - As the latest military action against the militants along the Pak-Afghan border in Mohmand Agency is in full swing, the security forces Saturday claimed making further advances and flushing out militants from Alingar area.
Meanwhile, it has been rumoured that Sangeen, an important militant chief, has been killed in the operation. Some reports also suggest that Qari Shakeel, militant's top commander in Mohmand Agency, has sustained serious injuries. However, there is no