Tag: Offensive

BEIRUT/GENEVA: More than 120,000 civilians have been uprooted by a Syrian army offensive in the southwest since it began last week, a war monitor...

BEIRUT: Syria state media and opposition activists say government troops are advancing on rebel-held areas in the country's southwestern region amid intense clashes in...

CAIRO: Raging battles between forces loyal to Yemen's internationally recognised government and Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, along the country's west coast have displaced...

MYITKYINA: Thousands of young people in northern Myanmar have staged one of the largest protests in years, successfully urging authorities to rescue civilians caught...

HANOI: Vietnam marked 50 years since the audacious Tet Offensive on Wednesday, in a bittersweet ceremony featuring patriotic dance performances recalling the attacks that...

ANKARA: Turkey has killed at least 260 Syrian Kurdish fighters and Islamic State militants in its four-day-old offensive into the Kurdish-dominated Afrin region of...

GOMA: Congolese troops began a military offensive in the eastern city of Beni on Saturday against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan rebel...

Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov on Wednesday said Russia's Air Forces (VVS) will continue its operation against terrorists as long as the Syrian...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts to seize on yoga as India's signature cultural export have his Hindu nationalist allies swelling with pride, but are...

India's top court on Tuesday struck down a controversial law that made posting “offensive” comments online a crime punishable by jail, after a long...

Official says few of the displaced people had chosen to stay at govt-run camps while most of them were staying with relatives More than 150,000...

Residents of North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on Monday accused troops of killing dozens of civilians during a military operation against terrorists. The operation started just...

United States Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson said on Thursday that the decision to conduct an operation in the North Waziristan Agency (NWA) was...

The people of the Belgian capital will have to mind their manners carefully from now on, with the city authorities ready to levy fines...

As media reports pour in regarding a possible military action in the restive tribal area of North Waziristan Agency, foreign and local militants present...

Pakistan plans to conduct a major militant clearing operation next month similar to the 2009 Swat valley operation, Fox News reported quoting US military...

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said the Pakistan Army recently indicated it would begin combat operations in North Waziristan Agency, which US considers...