Tag: Shelling

North Korea threatens repeat of island shelling

North Korea has threatened to repeat its 2010 artillery attack on a border island, as South Korea prepares to mark on Friday the second...

Pak condemns unprovoked shelling by Afghan forces

Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani conveyed deep concern of the Government of Pakistan to the Afghan Ambassador Monday over the unprovoked border shelling by...

Pak has reservations over Afghan shelling: Jalil

Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani said on Monday that Pakistan had serious reservations with cross border shelling and militant infiltration from Afghanistan. Speaking to media...

India says Pakistan border shelling kills three

Pakistani soldiers allegedly fired heavy weapons into Indian-held Kashmir and killed three civilians on Tuesday, the Indian defence ministry said, in the latest...

US says Turkish shelling ‘appropriate,’ ‘proportional’

The United States said Thursday Turkey had taken "appropriate" and "proportional" action in firing back at Syria after a deadly cross-border shelling, but urged...

Afghans protest against alleged Pakistan cross-border shelling

Hundreds of Afghan civilians demonstrated against the alleged cross-border incursion from Pakistan into eastern regions of the country in capital Kabul on Thursday. The protesters...

Pak-Afghan team to probe border shelling

Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to send a joint military team to investigate a recent surge in cross-border attacks that have soured relations between...

Pak-Afghan team to probe border shelling: Kabul

Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to send a joint military team to investigate a recent surge in cross-border attacks that have soured relations between...

Amnesty alarmed over heavy shelling of Syria’s Aleppo

Amnesty International expresssed alarm about the plight of civilians around Aleppo, saying satellite images show intensifying use of heavy weapons near residential areas of...

NATO condemns cross-border shelling into Afghanistan

NATO’s military force in Afghanistan has condemned cross-border shelling from Pakistan, after Kabul warned that it could significantly harm relations between the strife-torn neighbours. Afghanistan’s...

NATO condemns cross-border shelling into Afghanistan

NATO's military force in Afghanistan has condemned cross-border shelling from Pakistan, after Kabul warned that it could significantly harm relations between the strife-torn neighbours. Afghanistan's...

Six children among 33 dead in Syria: rights group

Shelling in the town of Herak, south of Damascus, killed six children on Tuesday, a human rights watchdog said, taking the death toll nationwide...

Kabul alleges more cross-border shelling from Pakistan

Scores of fresh artillery rounds fired from Pakistan hit parts of eastern Afghanistan on Sunday night and Monday, a local official said, according to...

Afghanistan warns Pakistan over cross-border shelling

Afghanistan on Sunday warned Pakistan any further cross-border shelling could significantly harm relations, just days after the leaders of the two strife-torn neighbours met...

Afghanistan threatens to go to UN over ‘Pakistani shelling’ in Kunar

Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office is increasing pressure on Pakistan to address the ongoing shelling into Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province by threatening to take...

Shelling in Orakzai takes three lives

Three people were killed during security forces’ shelling in the troubled Orakzai Agency on Tuesday. Using heavy artillery, security forces attacked the area of Khan...

Six Syrian troops ‘killed as shelling resumes’

Unidentified gunmen killed six Syrian soldiers in the northeast, as regime forces shelled areas in Homs and Aleppo on Tuesday, monitors said, on the...