Iran on Wednesday denied allegations that it was training Afghanistan's Taliban militant group.


Iran denies training Taliban militants


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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over the probe into the arrest of two Manipur residents for carrying arms and ammunition, the agency said on Wednesday.


NIA takes over Manipur arms seizure case


Pakistan and the US have agreed to remain engaged for peace in Afghanistan, a media report said on Wednesday.


Pakistan, US to work towards peace in Afghanistan


Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels said on Tuesday they fired a ballistic missile at a Saudi Arabian military air base in the Saudi border region of Asir.


Yemen's Houthis fire ballistic missile at Saudi air base


An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition hit a wedding party in Yemen's northern province of Saada on Tuesday, Killing 11 civilians and wounding 11 others, a local security official said.


11 killed in airstrike at wedding party in Yemen


UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the suicide attack in Afghanistan's Jalalabad that killed 19 people, most of them Sikhs, and called for the protection of minorities, his spokesperson Farhan Haq said.


Guterres condemns Jalalabad attack targeting Sikhs, Hindus


Asserting that Maoists were trying to take people back in time, the Indian Army chief, General Bipin Rawat said on Tuesday that the ideological conflict was creating problems vis-a-vis the Maoists in the country.


Ideological conflict with Maoists creating problems: Army chief


The NIA has recovered over Rs 40 lakh cash, scrapped currency and gold in a raid conducted at the residence of a former director of an Imphal-based medical institute as part of a year-old terror funding probe into a banned outfit in Manipur, an official said on Tuesday.


Manipur terror funding case: NIA recovers Rs 40 lakh


Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat on Tuesday said that decades of militancy has shattered the education system in Jammu and Kashmir and this is one of factors behind stone-pelting protests in the state.


Education in shatters causes stone-pelting in Kashmir: Army Chief


A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper on Tuesday foiled a weapon snatching attempt here, police said.


CRPF trooper foils weapon snatching attempt in Srinagar


A man has been arrested in the US and charged with supporting a foreign terrorist organisation, officials said.


US man arrested for plotting attack on July 4 holiday


Pakistan Army chief on approved death sentence of 12 hardcore militants involved in separate incidents of terrorism in the country, official reports said on Monday.


Pakistan Army chief approves death of 12 militants


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday "strongly" condemned the terror attack in Afghanistan's Jalalabad city that killed at least 19, including many Sikhs on Sunday, and offered India's assistance to Kabul.


Modi condemns Jalalabad attack, Sushma meets victims' kin


A Maoist was killed in a gunfight with security personnel in this Chhattisgarh district on Monday, police said.


Maoist gunned down in Chhattisgarh


Pakistan on Monday condemned a terror attack in Afghanistan's Jalalabad city that killed 19 people, including Sikhs and Hindus.


Pakistan condemns suicide attack in Afghanistan



Modi condemns Jalalabad attack, Sushma to meet victims' kin


A suicide bomber blew himself up in an Afghan city of Jalalabad, where President Ashraf Ghani was to hold a meeting with provincial officials, killing at least 19 people, many of them Sikhs, officials said on Sunday.


Sikhs among 19 killed in Afghan suicide blast


At least two French soldiers were killed on Sunday in Gao town in northern Mali, after a bomb targeting French and Malian forces exploded, according to security official


Two French soldiers killed in Mali attack


BSF troopers are giving a befitting reply to unprovoked firing from Pakistan on the international border in Jammu and Kashmir, Border Security Force Director General K.K. Sharma said on Sunday.


Befitting reply being given to Pak firing: BSF DG


At least four people were killed as a blast, presumably a suicide attack, rocked Jalalabad city on Sunday, an official said.


4 dead as blast rocks Afghan city


A Maoist commander has been killed in Chhattisgarh in a shootout with the police, officials said on Sunday.

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