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


Maoist leader killed in Chhattisgarh


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A total of 25 militants have been killed and 23 others injured elsewhere in the war-battered Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, Afghan Defence Ministry said on Saturday.


25 Afghan militants killed in 24 hours


Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced an end to his government's unilateral ceasefire with the Taliban on Saturday and ordered the security forces to resume their anti-militancy operations.


Afghan government ends ceasefire with Taliban, resumes offensive


Terrorist groups operating in Kashmir and Naxalites are recruiting children, according to a report by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who urged the Indian government to act against those recruiting children.


Terror groups operating in Kashmir, Naxalites recruiting children: UN


At least seven civilians were killed in bombings carried out by the Syrian Army and government forces on several areas in Deraa province, activists reported on Saturday.


7 killed in Syria bombings


India on Saturday welcomed Pakistan being put on the "grey list" by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental body which combats money laundering and terror financing among other things, for failing to curb terror financing on its soil.


India welcomes grey-listing of Pakistan FATF


Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani announced that the security forces would resume operations against the Taliban after the government's ceasefire, which began on June 12, ended on Saturday.


Afghan government resumes offensive against Taliban after truce ends


The body of a militant who was killed in a gunfight with the security forces a day before in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, was recovered on Saturday, police said


Militant's body recovered from J&K gunfight site


Three militants were killed in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Friday, while a youth also died in clashes as protesters pelted the security forces with stones while the operation was underway, police said.


Three militants killed in J&K gunfight, youth also dies


Eight civilian protesters were injured on Friday in clashes with the security forces during an ongoing gunfight between holed-up militants and the security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.


Eight civilians injured in clashes during ongoing J&K gunfight


Two protesters were injured on Friday when a stone pelting mob tried to disrupt an operation against holed-up militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.


Two protesters injured in J&K gunfight


A criminal complaint was filed on Friday against Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad for allegedly making "seditious statements against the Indian Army".


Complaint filed against Azad, Soz for army remarks


China on Friday said that Pakistan must not be vilified and pressured on the front of terror, after a global watchdog put the country on "grey list" of countries that finance terrorism.


China defends Pakistan after it was put on FATF 'grey list'


A team of police commandos has nabbed two foreign-based Manipuri insurgents in Moreh, located along India-Myanmar border, officials said on Friday.


Two insurgents held in Manipur


One militant was killed on Friday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's border district of Kupwara.


1 militant killed in J&K gunfight


Five people were killed on Thursday in a shooting at the offices of The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, authorities said.


Five killed in newsroom shooting in US


Myanmar-based National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) on Thursday continued its stepped-up attacks on Indian security forces, injuring an Assam Rifles trooper in Nagaland.


NSCN-K rebels ambush Assam Rifles troopers in Nagaland, injure one


US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley on Thursday said Washington will not tolerate governments giving safe haven to terrorists and will communicate this message more strongly to Islamabad than it used to do in the past.


US to act more strictly with Pakistan on terrorism: Haley


Pakistan has been officially put on "grey list" by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which combats money laundering and terror financing among other things, over failing to curb terror financing on its soil, the media reported on Thursday.


Pakistan placed on 'grey list' by FATF


Hitting out at the Congress for accusing the Modi government of using the 2016 surgical strikes across the LoC as "political fodder" to garner votes, the BJP on Thursday said that by raising such questions the opposition party is breaking the spirit of the armed forces and strengthening the morale of the terrorists.


Congress breaking Army's spirit, strengthening terrorists' morale: BJP


Sixteen Afghan Border Police personnel were killed after Taliban attacked their outpost in Takhar province on Thursday.

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