Tag: Tension

Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak was Wednesday in a coma on life support at a Cairo hospital, sources said, as tension spiked over who will succeed...

Two more people were killed and several others injured as uncontrolled target killing and reckless violence continued in different areas of the city on...

A US soldier accused of shooting dead 16 Afghan civilians has been flown out of Afghanistan, officials said, as Washington attempted to calm seething...

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta flew into Afghanistan on Wednesday at a fraught moment in the war after a shooting rampage by a US...

US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon will travel to Israel on Saturday for talks with senior Israeli officials on a range of issues, including...

From 18 to 10 All portfolios are, ultimately, the chief minister’s portfolios. This has to be said slowly, soothingly, like one would to a child. The...

A new book detailing life in the White House describes high tension under the tenure of Barack Obama as First Lady Michelle Obama struggled...

Iran’s military on Tuesday warned one of the US navy’s biggest aircraft carriers not to return to the Gulf, in an escalating showdown over...

Iran on Saturday kept tensions simmering over its threat to close the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers by readying war game missile tests...

The trilateral summit of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkey concluded in Istanbul on a positive note with the three countries signing agreements and MoUs for...

The ministers and members of KPK assembly cancelled their visit to America due to increased tension in Pak-US relations. As per details, Pak-US relations entered...

Pakistan Muslim League- Quaid (PML-Q) Central Secretary Information Kamil Ali Agha said on Tuesday that it was time to make big sacrifices for the...

The standoff between the executive and judiciary has apparently been defused for the time being following the posting of OSD Sohail Ahmed as the...

Another six people were gunned down in Karachi on Sunday as the MQM accused the Sindh government of deliberately disconnecting all telephone connections of...

TEHRAN - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Monday accused the United States of wanting to create tension between Iran and Arabs, after Gulf Arab states urged the Iranian regime to stop interfering in their affairs. "America and its allies are trying to create an Iranian-Arab tension, they seek to sow discord among Shiites and Sunnis... but their plan will fail," the hardliner said at Iran's annual Army Day parade, where the military displayed a range of home-built drones and missiles.

TEHRAN - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday accused Tehran's arch-foe the United States of wanting to create tension between Iran and Arabs, adding that the attempt would fail.
"America is trying to sow discord among Shiites and Sunnis ... they want to create tension between Iran and Arabs ... but their plan will fail," the hardliner said at Iran's annual Army Day parade, where the military displayed a range of home-built drones and missiles.
"America is not an honest

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