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Key conspirator in Pulwama suicide attack killed
A Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militant who was a key conspirator behind the car bombing that killed 40 CRPF troopers has been shot dead by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, officials said on Monday.
46 suspected jihadists killed in Sinai clashes: Egypt army
Egypt's army on Monday said 46 suspected jihadists were killed in clashes in the restive Sinai Peninsula, where troops are fighting the Islamic State group. The "extremely dangerous" militants were killed in shootouts in north and central Sinai, the army said in a statement read on state television, without specifying when the clashes took place. About 100 "criminal, wanted elements and suspects" were arrested, and security forces destroyed dozens of hideouts and vehicles used by the suspected jihadists during operations in the Sinai, the statement added. Three soldiers also died in fighting in "various areas of operations", the army said but did not identify those locations. The Sinai Peninsula is the epicentre of an insurgency spearheaded by the jihadist IS group which surged following the 2013 military ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi after mass protests against his one-year rule. In February 2018, the army launched a nationwide operation against militants, mainly ...
Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar 'lived close to US bases'
The Taliban's elusive one-eyed leader Mullah Omar lived within walking distance of US bases in Afghanistan for years and never hid in Pakistan as believed by Washington, a new book has claimed.
Pulwama terror attack mastermind killed in encounter: Officials
The mastermind of the February 14 Pulwama terror attack, in which 40 CRPF personnel had died, has been killed in an encounter in south Kashmir's Tral area, officials said Monday. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist Mudasir Ahmed Khan alias 'Mohd Bhai' was among two militants killed in the encounter in Tral's Pinglish area in Pulwama district, they said. The encounter lasted past midnight. Khan and an JeM operative, who officials believe is Sajjad Bhat, whose vehicle was used in the Pulwama attack, were killed in the gunfight with security forces. The family members of Khan have taken his body, the officials said, adding that family members of Bhat refused to take the body, saying it was charred beyond recognition. Security forces had launched a cordon and search operation in Pinglish after receiving specific intelligence about the presence of militants in the area. The operation turned into an encounter after the militants opened fire at the search party who retaliated, the officials ...
Armed men vandalise toll plaza, loot Rs 9 lakh
Armed men vandalised a toll plaza in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district and looted around Rs 9 lakh from the employees there, police said Monday. A case was registered against two accused, they said. Nearly two dozen people with sticks and iron rods vandalised the Khachrol toll plaza here, the Mandalgarh Police said. The entire incident was recorded on CCTV cameras installed at the plaza, they added. The two accused were identified by toll plaza employees as Ashok Khandelwal and Mahesh Khandelwal who were booked by the police, they said.
Myanmar woman widowed in Rakhine attack pleads for peace
A woman widowed in the latest deadly attack by ethnic Rakhine rebels called on the army and insurgents to lay down arms and talk, as violence rips through the troubled western Myanmar state. Rakhine state is riven by ethnic and religious divisions, and was the epicentre of the bloody military crackdown against Rohingya Muslims in 2017, which pushed some 740,000 over the border into Bangladesh. But the armed forces are now waging war against the Arakan Army (AA), which claims to represent the state's ethnic Rakhine Buddhists -- a population that also stands accused of aiding soldiers in their expulsion of the Rohingya. There is widespread support for the rebels among ethnic Rakhine, who live in one of Myanmar's poorest states. When Ma Oo Khin's family heard shooting during the attack on Saturday night that left nine officers dead, they fell cowering to the ground. It was only afterwards the 42-year-old discovered her husband was one of the victims, his body already wrapped in ...
Slain militant was conspirator of Pulwama terror attack
One of the two Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militants killed by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district was on Monday identified as one of the key conspirators behind the horrific suicide bombing that killed 40 CRPF troopers.
6-year-old drowns in water tank in J&K
A six-year-old boy drowned in a water tank inside the premises of a government school in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, police said on Monday. Aahil Mirza, a resident of Ujjan village, accidentally fell into the water tank while playing on Sunday evening, they said. His body was recovered from the underground tank and handed over to his family for the last rites after the completion of legal formalities, the police said.
US-backed forces attack last IS stronghold in Syria
Heavy fighting took place as US-backed forces attacked the last Islamic State (IS) stronghold in Syria amid a final push to clear the terror group from the war-torn country.
JeM commander Mudasir killed in Tral
Family of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) commander Mudasir Khan has identified his body as one of the two militants killed in Tral encounter, police said on Tuesday as it awaited forensic reports.
Taliban leader Omar lived next to US Afghan base: biography
Taliban founder Mullah Omar lived within walking distance of US bases in Afghanistan for years, according to a new book that highlights embarrassing failures of American intelligence. Washington believed the one-eyed, fugitive leader had fled to Pakistan, but the new biography says Omar was in fact living just three miles from a major US Forward Operating Base in his home province of Zabul before his death in 2013. "Searching for an Enemy", by Dutch journalist Bette Dam, reveals the Taliban chief lived as a virtual hermit, refusing visits from his family and filling notebooks with jottings in an imaginary language. Dam spent more than five years researching the book and interviewed Jabbar Omari, Omar's bodyguard who hid and protected him after the Taliban regime was overthrown. According to the book, Omar listened to the BBC's Pashto-language news broadcasts in the evenings, but even when he learned about the death of al-Qaeda supremo Osama Bin Laden rarely commented on developments ..
Pulwama terror attack mastermind believed to be killed in encounter: officials
The mastermind of the February 14 Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF personnel is believed to have been killed in an encounter in the Tral area of South Kashmir, officials said Monday. The encounter in Pinglish area of Tral in south Kashmir's Pulwama district lasted past midnight in which Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist Mudasir Ahmed Khan alias 'Mohd Bhai' was among the three militants killed, the officials said. The bodies of the three militants are charred beyond recognition and efforts are on to establish their identity, they said. The security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Pinglish after receiving specific intelligence input about the presence of militants in the area. The operation turned into an encounter after the militants opened fire at the search party of the forces who retaliated. Lesser-known JeM terrorist Khan has been identified as the brains behind the audacious terror strike in Pulwama that left 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel dead .
Days after India shot down Pak drones, unidentified object found in Rajasthan's village
Two days after Pakistani drones were shot down by India in Sri Ganganagar area, an unidentified object was found in a village here. The object fell through the roof of a building in 3B village on Sunday.Ismail Khan, CO (City) said, "We received information that some item came falling through the roof of a building here. We have informed the Army and the BSF. No injuries have been reported."The Indian Army on Saturday shot down a drone which intruded in Sri Ganganagar sector of Rajasthan.The Army said that one Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) intruded in Rajasthan's Sri Ganganagar sector around 7.30 pm on Saturday."The drone was engaged and brought down," the Army added.The Army on Friday too shot at a Pakistani drone along the international border in Rajasthan's Sri Ganganagar sector."The Indian Army shot down the drone while it was making an attempt to enter the Indian airspace, "army sources said.So far four Pakistani drones have been shot at by the Indian security forces since the ...
J-K: 3 terrorists killed in Tral encounter
Three terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Tral town of Pulwama district on Sunday.Two AK-47 rifles and a pistol were recovered from the spot. The search operation is underway.The gunfight broke out after the forces launched a cordon and search operation in the area acting on a tip-off on the presence of terrorists, officials said.More details are awaited.On March 7, one terrorist was killed in Handwara in an encounter. The state police said that the terrorist was a Pakistan national and was affiliated with Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Police seize 800 kilos of cocaine in Guinea-Bissau
Authorities in Guinea-Bissau have seized a consignment of nearly 800 kilos of cocaine, police sources said on Sunday. It is the biggest drugs haul in the country in over a decade. Four suspects -- two Nigerians, one Senegalese and one Bissau-Guinean -- were arrested following the seizure overnight Saturday to Sunday at the capital Bissau's northern exit. The drugs were found in a refrigerated truck registered in Senegal. Police are probing whether army officers and high-ranking officials were involved, a source said.
Three militants killed in Pulwama encounter
Three militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, a defence spokesman said. The security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Pinglish in the Tral area of south Kashmir's Pulwama district after receiving specific intelligence input about the presence of militants in the area. The search operation turned into an encounter after the militants opened fire at the search party of the forces who retaliated. The gunfight is going on, the spokesman said, adding the identity and group affiliation of the slain militants is being ascertained.
900 kg poppy straw seized in Kathua
In a major seizure, police Sunday recovered 900 kg of poppy straw from a truck in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. The truck, coming from Jammu, was on Jammu-Pathankot highway and on noticing police patrolling party, its driver abandoned the vehicle on a link road and fled away, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kathua, Shridhar Patil told reporters here. "The police party got suspicious and chased the vehicle which was abandoned by its driver. The search of the truck led to the recovery of nine quintals of poppy straw packed in 37 bags," the officer said. The SSP said the truck was seized and a case under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act was registered in this connection. A hunt is on to nab the absconding driver, Patil said.
Two militants killed in gunfight in J&K's Pulwama
Two unidentified militants were killed on Sunday in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.
US-backed Syria force says time up for IS 'to surrender'
US-backed forces said Sunday time was up for Islamic State group jihadists hunkering down in their eastern Syrian holdout and an assault was imminent. "The timeline (we gave) ISIS to surrender themselves is over," Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman Mustefa Bali said on Twitter, using another acronym for IS. "Our forces have received orders for military action to finish off what is left of the terrorists in Baghouz," a village near the Iraqi border, he said. "The assault will start at any moment," he told AFP. The SDF, who are backed by air strikes of the US-led coalition, have slowed down their months-long campaign against the jihadists in recent weeks to allow civilians out from the shrinking enclave. Thousands of dust-covered women, children, and men have trundled out of the village of Baghouz in the past weeks, but that exodus has slowed to a trickle in recent days. Suspected jihadists have also been detained after exiting among the crowd. On Saturday, "only about 100 people left,
Attack on Myanmar-Bangladesh border construction work
Security forces stationed to supervise Myanmar-Bangladesh border fencing work in Buthidaung township in Myanmar's Rakhine state came under attack from the Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic armed group, officials said on Sunday.