How Israel's 1996 mobile bomb strategy paved the way for pager bombs in LebanonOn October 19, 1994, a bombing on Tel Aviv’s Route No. 5 killed 21 people and injured 50. The attack was carried out by Saleh Abdel Rahim a...
21 Sep, 2024, 01.25 PM IST
Pagers and drones: How Hezbollah aims to counter Israel's high-tech surveillanceHezbollah, responding to Israeli airstrikes, has adopted low-tech strategies such as landline phones, pagers, and coded messages to evade s...
09 Jul, 2024, 04.55 PM IST
'No one knew': South Beirut stunned after strike kills Hamas deputyA presumed Israeli strike killed Hamas' deputy leader in south Beirut. The attack destroyed a building, alarming residents unaware of a Ham...
04 Jan, 2024, 10.51 AM IST
Israeli offensive shifts to crowded southern Gaza, driving up death toll despite evacuation ordersThe renewed hostilities have heightened concerns for 137 hostages, who the Israeli military says are still being held after 105 were freed ...
03 Dec, 2023, 05.11 PM IST
Afghanistan: A fast-evolving powder keg waiting to explodeThe Taliban are a jihadi force that believes in the practice, imposition and spread of extreme Sunni Islam through conquest and violence. H...
10 Sep, 2021, 11.39 PM IST
Once wanted terrorists, now Taliban are prominent members of 2021Prominent Taliban members, who are against women rights and are extremists, were hunted down for 20 years by world best intelligence agenci...
28 Aug, 2021, 03.37 PM IST
Saudi Arabia releases Bin Laden patriarch held in 'Ritz crackdown': sourcesThe former chairman of the Bin Laden Group, Saudi Arabia's biggest construction company, was reunited last week with his family in the Red ...
13 May, 2021, 12.46 PM IST
Enemy is an enemy, Afghan policy on Pakistan flawed: Ex-Afghan intel chiefSaleh, during an interaction here, said Afghanistan never tried to increase the "cost of war" for Pakistan and always took a "high moral gr...
17 Oct, 2018, 08.49 PM IST
Bin Laden business grew from humble beginningsAs the conglomerate grew, the Bin Laden family, cultivated ties with King Abdulaziz's sons and grandsons to secure the alliance's longevity.
27 Sep, 2018, 03.58 PM IST
Saudi corruption purge snares $33 billion of net worth in RiyadhThe stunning series of arrests has implicated three of the country’s richest people, including Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who’s No. 50 on t...
07 Nov, 2017, 10.43 AM IST
Turkey's flirtation with terrorists is falling apartErdogan has also defended Yasin al-Qadi - a Saudi billionaire who was listed as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" by the US Treasur...
16 Sep, 2015, 02.05 PM IST
Peace talks with Taliban a ploy by Pakistan Army to keep Afghanistan divided: Amanullah SalehAmanullah Saleh is understood to have tracked down Osama Bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan as chief of Afghan intelligence agency.
05 Aug, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
US declassified files from Osama bin Laden's house: References to contributions from 'Indian brother' emergeThere is a reference to an unnamed ‘Indian brother in Madina’ who contributed two tranches of money to the Al Qaida funds in May and July 2...
21 May, 2015, 12.19 PM IST
- Details of Pak govt's secret fund payments made public
Pakistan's SC today made public a list of journalists and other persons who received payments of nearly Rs 178 mn from the secret fund of t...
22 Apr, 2013, 10.37 PM IST
- Sanmar Group plans to invest $200 million to expand factory in Egypt
Sanmar Group plans to spend $200 million to expand its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) factory in Port Said's industrial zone in Egypt, the countr...
01 Oct, 2012, 01.27 PM IST
- ISI helped Osama bin Laden to escape US dragnet in Tora Bora
ISI could have provided protection to slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden for a period of time, suggests the latest issue of 'The New York...
13 Sep, 2011, 08.07 PM IST
- Osama bin Laden dead: Pakistan's status as safe house for jihadis confirmed
Osama bin Laden’s killing “deep inside Pakistan’’ has again authenticated Pakistan’s status as a terror safe haven.
03 May, 2011, 11.58 AM IST