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Policeman, 3 militants killed in Srinagar gunfight

A Jammu and Kashmir policeman and three militants were killed in a gunfight in old city area of Srinagar on Wednesday, police said.

J-K: 3 terrorists, 1 police officer killed in encounter

Three terrorists and one police officer were killed after an encounter broke out in Fateh Kadal area of Jammu and Kashmir's capital city, Srinagar.Few paramilitary officers have also suffered injuries.The encounter between the terrorists and security forces broke out early on Wednesday morning, after a cordon and search operation was launched in the vicinity."We had a specific information, so during the cordon and search operation they (terrorist) fired. We have lost one of our boys, few Para-military officers have also suffered injuries ," informed Senior Superintendent of Police, Imitiaz Ismail.This comes days after Hizbul Mujahideen's top commander Manan Wani and another Hizbul operative Ashiq Hussain Zargar were eliminated in an encounter by security forces in Handwara town of Kupwara district.

Gunfight rages in Srinagar

A gunfight started early on Wednesday in the old city area here in Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

Saudi-led coalition announces removal of 2,020 landmines in Yemen

Saudi-led coalition involved in a war in Yemen on Tuesday announced the removal of more than 2,020 landmines from Yemeni territories.

US FORSCOM gets 1st woman chief

Lieutenant General Laura J. Richardson has become the first woman Commanding General of the United States Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) which is based out of Fort Bragg in North Carolina.Richardson will be leading a command comprising 776,000 soldiers and 96,000 civilians, according to CNN. She will succeed General Robert B. Abrams, who will be moving on to command U.S. Forces Korea.The relinquishment of command ceremony to bid General Abrams farewell from FORSCOM was held on Tuesday (local time), before which the General had released his farewell message on FORSCOM's Twitter. The 39th Chief of Staff of the US Army, General Mark A. Milley was also present at the ceremony.Abrams, who served as Commanding General of FORSCOM for three years, expressed how grateful he was for the sacrifices made by FORSCOM Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs), soldiers, army families, and civilians.Richardson has been serving the US forces since 1986 and was the first woman to be appointed as the ...

US airstrike kills 60 Al Shabab militants in Somalia

The US military on Tuesday said its special forces conducted an airstrike in the vicinity of Harardhere town in Mudug region of central Somalia on October 12, killing 60 Al Shabab militants.

Chhattisgarh: 3 ITBP jawans injured in IED blast

Three Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) jawans were injured in an Improved Explosive Device (IED) blast orchestrated by Naxals.The blast took place in Rajnandgaon's Rajadera village in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday when a team of security forces was out on an operation.The injured jawans were taken to a nearby hospital. After the attack, a search operation was conducted in the region.Further details are awaited.

US Airstrike Slays 60 Al-Shabaab Terrorists in Somalia: AFRICOM

United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced that an American airstrike coordinated with the Somalian federal government killed "approximately 60 terrorists" from Al-Shabaab, the most destructive air raid against the militant Salafi group since November 2017."This precision airstrike was the largest airstrike against Al-Shabaab since November 21, 2017, when US forces conducted an airstrike against an Al-Shabaab camp killing approximately 100 terrorists," AFRICOM said in a Tuesday news release. American warplanes struck the Al-Shabaab-controlled area of Haradere in Mudug province, which is located in north-central Somalia.The US command also claimed to assess that "this airstrike did not injure or kill any civilians." Since 2007, the US military's combat drones have waged war against al-Qaeda's affiliates in Somalia, among them Al-Shabaab.Somalia has been engulfed in violence since the eruption of a civil war between clan-based, armed factions in the early 1990s. Al-Shabaab has ...

US strike in Somalia killed 60 militants: Pentagon

The United States conducted its largest air strike in nearly two years against militants in Somalia, killing about 60 Al-Shabaab fighters, the US military has said. "This precision air strike was the largest air strike against Al-Shabaab since November 21, 2017," when air-dropped US munitions targeted one of the group's training camps, killing about 100 extremists, US Africa Command said in a statement on Tuesday. The strike took place Friday in the Harardhere area along the central coast of the Horn of Africa country, where US forces train Somali troops and also partner with the United Nations-backed African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Air assaults and missile strikes have increased in recent months against Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda affiliate fighting to overthrow the internationally backed Somali government in Mogadishu. The surge in activity came after President Donald Trump last year loosened constraints on the US military in Somalia, allowing commanders to take action against ..

17 civilians killed in South Sudan fighting

At least 17 civilians have been killed and several others injured in clashes between two rebel factions in South Sudan's border town of Yei in the southwest of the country, the police said on Tuesday.

AAP rebel group in Punjab to announce district presidents on Oct 24

Meanwhile, the core committee of the state unit of AAP Tuesday announced the formation of a five-member coordination committee to reach out to the rebel MLAs

US imposes sanctions on Iranian network for supporting child soldiers

Intensifying its pressure on Iran, the US imposed sanctions on Tuesday on a multibillion-dollar financial network that supports an Iranian paramilitary force, alleging it recruits and trains child soldiers for the country's elite Revolutionary Guards. The announcement came two weeks before the Trump administration reimposes some of the United States' harshest sanctions against Iran, including its oil sector. Announcing sanctions against Basij Resistance Force, the US Department of Treasury alleged that the paramilitary force subordinate to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) indulges in militia recruits, trains, and deploys child soldiers to fight in IRGC-fueled conflicts across the region. "This Iran-based network is known as Bonyad Taavon Basij, which is translated as Basij Cooperative Foundation, and is comprised of at least 20 corporations and financial institutions," the Treasury said. Bonyad Taavon Basij employs shell companies and other measures to mask Basij ...

Boko Haram kills second kidnapped aid worker in Nigeria: Red Cross

Islamic State-allied Boko Haram jihadists have killed another kidnapped female Red Cross worker in northeast Nigeria, the agency said on Tuesday, a month after militants murdered one of her colleagues. Three female health workers were kidnapped on March 1 during a Boko Haram raid on the remote town of Rann, in Borno state, that killed three other aid workers and eight Nigerian soldiers. Two of the kidnapped women, Hauwa Liman and Saifura Khorsa, worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), while the third, Alice Loksha, worked for the UN children's agency, UNICEF. The ICRC said on Tuesday it had received information Liman had been killed by her captors, without giving further details. The government had also earlier announced news of the second killing. "The news of Hauwa's death has broken our hearts," ICRC's Regional Director for Africa, Patricia Danzi said in a statement. "We appealed for mercy and an end to such senseless murders. How can it be that two female ..

US airstrike in Somalia kills about 60 al-Shabab fighters

The US military says it has carried out its deadliest airstrike against the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia in nearly a year, killing about 60 fighters. The US Africa Command says Friday's airstrike occurred near the community of Harardere in Mudug province in the central part of the country. The statement says according to its assessment no civilians were injured or killed. It was the largest such US strike since one on Nov 21, 2017, killed about 100 al-Shabab fighters. The US military has carried out more than two dozen airstrikes, including drone strikes, this year against the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab, the deadliest Islamic extremist group in sub-Saharan Africa. Somalia on Sunday marked the first anniversary of al-Shabab's deadliest attack, a truck bombing in Mogadishu that killed well over 500 people.

450 jihadists killed in Egypt Sinai offensive: army

The Egyptian army said Tuesday that 450 jihadists are estimated to have been killed in its eight-month offensive against the Islamic State group in the Sinai Peninsula. The military launched a large-scale operation dubbed "Sinai 2018" in February to rid Sinai of IS jihadists after an attack on a mosque in the north of the peninsula that killed more than 300 people. Since the start of the campaign, 450 jihadists were presumed to have been killed "in the north and the centre of Sinai by (soldiers) and police," army spokesman Tamer al-Rifai told AFP. According to army figures, around 30 soldiers have been killed during the operation. Jihadists began an insurgency in Egypt after the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, who was forced out by the military in the face of mass protests against his rule and that of his Muslim Brotherhood. The army on Tuesday rejected criticism from rights groups over the impact on civilians of its campaign in Sinai. It says that people in the ...

Raid on militants' hideout in Bangladesh kills 2

Two bodies suspected to be of militants were found on Tuesday after Bangladeshi security forces stormed a hideout of the Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members in the country's Narsingdi district, the police said.

Terrorists adopting new tactics, stay alert: Rajnath to security forces

Addressing the 34th Raising Day event of National Security Guard (NSG) here on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh called upon the security forces to be on alert as "terrorists are adopting new tactics".The Home Minister said that terrorists are using social media for publicity and vehicles to run over people in crowded public places. Keeping up with the challenges, the NSG is upgrading its skills and techniques, he added.Singh further credited the armed forces for not allowing the terrorists to carry out any major attack in the nation."In the last ten years, there was no big terrorist attack in the hinterland of the country largely due to the alertness of our security forces. Barring Jammu and Kashmir, our security forces have succeeded in preventing terrorist attacks in the rest of the country," Singh said."We have seen best coordination among security forces in Jammu and Kashmir resulting in successful security operations. We have decided to deploy one unit of NSG in Jammu ..

China justifies re-education camps in Xinjiang; says it prevented terror attacks

Amid global criticism, China on Tuesday justified its controversial move to keep thousands of Uygur Muslims in "vocational training institutions" in the volatile Xinjiang region, insisting that its stringent measures have prevented terror attacks in the province in the last 21 months. Xinjiang, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, has been restive for the past several years over protests from Uygur Muslims, an ethnic group of over 10 million Turkik origin people, over the large scale settlements of Han Chinese from other provinces. China blamed the recurring violent attacks including in Beijing and elsewhere in the country on the separatist East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), an al-Qaeda linked group, whose cadres were now stated to be fighting along with Islamic State (IS) in Syria. The UN Human Rights panel reported in August that China has detained over a million Uygur Muslims in re-education camps which are also called indoctrination camps, sparking an ...

Miscreants loot money from private finance company employee

Armed miscreants looted Rs 97,000 from a private finance company official at gunpoint in Bihar's Bhagalpur district Tuesday, police said. The manager of the private finance company was on his way to deposit money collected from small depositors at the company's branch office at Naugachhia when three bike borne miscreants stopped him near Telghi Kalbaliya Dhar and snatched the bag containing the money at gunpoint, SHO of Kharik police station, Sudin Ram said. An FIR has been lodged in this regard with Kharik police station, the SHO said adding that police have started investigation besides conducting raids to nab the culprits.

Taliban attack Afghan check posts, kill 19 troops

At least 19 members of the Afghan security forces were killed and 16 others were injured in Taliban attacks, few days ahead of parliamentary elections in the country, officials said on Tuesday.