Tag: Militant
Militant commander ‘Pistol Mullah’ killed in Afghanistan drone attack
PESHAWAR: Hazrat Ali, the notorious militant commander from Khyber Agency, commonly known as 'Pistol Mullah' (Tumanchay Mullah) was killed in a US drone attack...
Singapore worries, prepares for militant attack
SINGAPORE: Armed officers patrol a train station where television screens and giant posters warn of the threat from militants. Nearby, fake gunmen storm a...
Drone strike kills seven al Qaeda suspects in Yemen
ADEN: A drone strike early Saturday killed seven suspected al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen, a security official said.
The US military is the only...
Senior PKK militant arrested in Turkey
BURSA: A senior member of the Partiya Karkeren Kurdistane (PKK) terror organization – who is also known by his code name "Sefkan" – was...
Facebook reports considerable progress in removing ‘terror content’
Facebook said on Wednesday that it was removing 99 per cent of content related to militant groups Islamic State and al Qaeda before being...
UK’s top security official urges social media to block militant content
WASHINGTON: Britain’s top internal security official is pressing social media companies to devise automatic systems to spot and block violent militant messaging before it...
Policeman, PKK militant killed during security operation in Turkey
ISTANBUL: A policeman and a militant from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Friday, the local...
US captures suspected key militant in Benghazi attack
WASHINGTON: US forces have captured a militant who is believed to have played a role in a 2012 attack on a US diplomatic compound...
One terrorist killed in encounter at Malir
KARACHI: One militant was killed and two managed to flee in an encounter with Rangers in Memon Goth area of Malir.
According to a spokesman of...
Top Philippine IS militant Hapilon killed: defence chief
Leading Islamist militant Isnilon Hapilon, who is on the United States' list of "most wanted terrorists", has been killed in the battle to reclaim...
Three ‘militants’ held from KU’s staff colony
KARACHI: Three suspected terrorists were nabbed in a raid from the University of Karachi’s staff colony late Wednesday night, sources disclosed on Thursday.
Official sources...
Somali security forces shoot minister after mistaking him for militant
MOGADISHU: Somali security forces shot dead a minister for public works in his car in the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday after mistaking him for an...
Militants kills three Indian soldiers in separatist attack in Assam
Heavily armed militants ambushed an army convoy on Saturday, killing three soldiers and injuring four others in India’s restive northeastern state of Assam, police...
Key Haqqani network member killed in US drone strike in Paktika
A key member of the Haqqani terrorist network was killed in a drone strike in southeastern Afghanistan's Paktika province.
The leader killed in the drone...
Bangladesh upholds militant’s death sentence
Bangladesh’s top court has upheld the death sentence of a militant over fatal suicide blasts targeting secular activists 10 years ago, a prosecutor said...
Balochistan-based militant to head Daesh in Pakistan: source
Following the recent arrest of several militants associated with Daesh or the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from Sindh and Punjab,...
ISIS-inspired militant apprehended from Karachi
FO says agencies put on alert for Daesh threat
As the Foreign Office said on Friday the country’s security agencies have been put on alert...
