The US has urged Pakistan to immediately enact a legislation that formally ban radical religious groups, a media report said on Thursday.


US urges Pakistan to enact law banning radical groups


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Mother! I love you. It is possible I will die in this attack," Doordarshan cameraman M.M. Sharma said on his mobile telephone as Maoists ambushed a team of policemen and Doordarshan journalists. But he had a miraculous escape.


'Mother, I will possibly die!' cameraman said before surviving Maoist attack


A 17-year-old boy detonated a bomb at an office of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Arkhangelsk city on Wednesday, killing himself and injuring three agency officers, officials said.


Teen bomber kills self at Russian intelligence agency's office


A Chhattisgarh policeman on Wednesday succumbed to his injuries here at a hospital, taking the toll to four in a Maoist ambush in Dantewada in which a Doordarshan cameraman and two policemen were also killed, police said.


Maoist ambush toll 4 as injured policeman dies


At least seven people were killed and eight others wounded after a suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying prison employees on the outskirts of capital on Wednesday, officials said.


7 killed in Kabul prison suicide bombing


More than 1,500 bodies have been found in a mass grave in Syria's Raqqa province, the former de facto capital of the Islamic State (IS), the media reported on Wednesday.


Over 1,500 bodies found in Syria mass grave


At least 25 people, including senior government and Army officials, were killed when a military helicopter crashed due to bad weather in the region bordering Afghanistan's Farah and Herat provinces on Wednesday, authorities said.


25 killed in Afghan military helicopter crash


At least 20 people were killed on Wednesday when a military helicopter crashed in Afghanistan's Farah province. The dead included the region's deputy commander and local politicians.


20 killed in Afghan military helicopter crash


The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday said the two militants killed in a gunfight at Tral in Pulwama district were involved in a series of sniper attacks on security forces.


Slain militants involved in sniper attacks: Police


At least six people were killed and eight others wounded after a suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying prison employees in the capital on Wednesday, officials said.


6 killed in Kabul prison suicide bombing


Pushed on the back foot and confined to a limited forest "patch", Maoist insurgents are desperate for a "big catch" ahead of assembly polls in Chhattisgarh to get wider publicity, security experts and police officials here say.


'Maoists are fighting for survival in Chhattisgarh'


Hours after Maoists killed two policemen and a Doordarshan cameraman, Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday said it would not allow the rebels to disrupt the coming Assembly elections.


Chhattisgarh Police 'will foil Maoist threats during polls'


Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militant outfit said on Tuesday that Pakistan-based Masood Azhar's nephew was one among the two militants killed by security forces in Tral area today.


JeM says Masood Azhar's nephew among slain militants in Tral


India and Italy on Tuesday condemned terrorism in all its forms and called for strong measures against the perpetrators following a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Italian counterpart Guiseppe Conte.


India, Italy condemn terrorism, its state support


Achyuta Nanda Sahu, the 34-year-old cameraman who died in a Maoist attack in poll-bound Chhattisgarh state on Tuesday, was always up for challenges, said his colleague at Doordarshan TV.


Slain cameraman's colleague remembers him for love of challenges


Eight soldiers, including a Major, were injured on Tuesday in an accidental explosion in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district. Two of them were reported to be in critical condition.


Officer among eight soldiers injured in Kupwara


The Taliban said on Tuesday that it has deployed five members freed in 2015 from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay to its political office in Qatar.


Taliban appoints 5 former Guantanamo prisoners to Qatar office


A gunfight broke out on Tuesday between security forces and militants in Tral area of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.


Gunfight in Pulwama


A cameraman of Doordarshan TV and two police personnel were killed in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district on Tuesday.


DD cameraman, two security personnel killed in Maoist attack


In what could be seen as remarks hinting at China, India and Japan on Monday called for a "free and open" Indo-Pacific and agreed to hold a 2+2 dialogue of foreign and defence ministers of the two countries.


India, Japan commit to further concretise cooperation in Indo-Pacific


Three Border Security Force (BSF) troopers were injured on Monday when militants fired at their vehicle on the outskirts of Srinagar, police said.

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