Syria sets deadline for 'small groups' to join Defence MinistrySyria's defence minister has urged remaining small armed groups to integrate into the security apparatus within 10 days, threatening unspec...
18 May, 2025, 02.42 PM IST
Militant attack on Pakistani border leaves 5 Iranian security forces dead, state media saysFive Iranian paramilitary forces were killed in a militant attack near the Pakistani border in Saravan city, Sistan and Baluchistan provinc...
11 Nov, 2024, 08.10 AM IST
Iran-Pakistan flare-up rooted in restive borderlands, not Mideast strifeIran's recent strike on Pakistan aimed to bolster internal security amid rising concerns about domestic militant threats, not Middle East a...
19 Jan, 2024, 02.54 PM IST
Who is Jaish al-Adl, the Sunni group that Iran targeted in an airstrike on Pakistani soil?Jaish al-Adl, or the Army of Justice, surfaced in 2012. It mainly comprises members of the Sunni militant Jundullah group, which was weaken...
18 Jan, 2024, 10.53 AM IST
Iran Air Strikes in Pakistan: Why Iran attacked Pakistan, how it will affect the region and the world?Iran's Revolutionary Guard conducted a bold attack on militant bases in Pakistan's Balochistan province, resulting in casualties. The offen...
17 Jan, 2024, 11.38 AM IST
Pakistan under a strong clutch of sectarian violenceThe study seriously faults the Pakistani counter-terrorism approach as mostly reactive, when it should be proactive, because all institutio...
17 Sep, 2022, 01.10 PM IST
India needs a strong Iran to combat ISIS, al-QaidaThe Khilafat movement of the 1920s was massively Indians are happy with the lifting of UN sanctions on Iran after its nuclear deal with the...
19 Jul, 2015, 11.43 AM IST
ISIS leaders getting paranoid as group loses some groundUnlike other terror groups, the Islamic State sees seizing and controlling territory as essential to its mission and purpose.
26 Jun, 2015, 01.06 PM IST
The Iraqi campaign to retake Ramadi from ISIS is a looming disasterA successful campaign to retake the city could send ISIS into retreat. But failure would only solidify the jihadists' hold over a sizable p...
01 Jun, 2015, 08.00 PM IST
Three IS-linked Pakistan militants arrested in LahoreThey were identified as Yousuf al Salafi, a Syrian national of Pakistani decent, Fawad and Hafiz Tayyab.
22 Jan, 2015, 05.09 PM IST
UK to deport Pakistan minority rights activist Liaquat Ali HazaraLiaquat Ali Hazara, 36, is a campaigner for persecuted minorities in Pakistan, including the Hazaras, the Shia group to which he belongs.
11 Nov, 2014, 09.49 PM IST
Barack Obama hails recapturing of Iraq's Mosul DamObama said recapturing of strategic Mosul dam in Northern Iraq by Iraqi & Kurdish forces, backed by US air-strikes, is a major step forward...
19 Aug, 2014, 08.16 AM IST
Efforts on to secure release of abducted Indians in Iraq: GovernmentIndia today said it was in constant touch with International Red Crescent in Iraq, countries of the region and all other concerned who can ...
22 Jun, 2014, 05.48 PM IST
16 Indians stranded in Iraq moved out, one of the 40 abducted escapesThe 40 Indians, who were working in a construction project, were abducted in Mosul which was seized by Sunni militant group ISIS.
20 Jun, 2014, 07.13 PM IST
Jihadists control 75% of Iraq’s largest oil refinery in Baiji: OfficialSunni extremists have taken control of most of Iraq's largest oil refinery, located in Baiji in northern Iraq, an official at the refinery ...
18 Jun, 2014, 09.26 PM IST
Why US military aid alone can't save IraqMoreover, the US must compel the Iraqi Army to adopt a sensitive, population-centered approach to reversing the militants' conquests.
12 Jun, 2014, 01.49 PM IST
23 Pakistan Shia pilgrims killedThe attack took place yesterday when 10 buses carrying the Shia pilgrims stopped at a hotel in Taftan near the Iranian border.
09 Jun, 2014, 04.21 PM IST