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NIA arrests LeT cadre after being deported from Saudi Arabia
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested Habibur Rahaman, an alleged handler of hardened Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Shaikh Abdul Naeem, after he was deported from Saudi Arabia, officials said today. Rahaman was arrested by the NIA on his arrival from Saudi Arabia, they said. Officially, the NIA has maintained that it had received an input about Rahman travelling to India, but officials in the know of the development said it was an example of cooperation between security agencies of the two countries. Rahman is an alleged handler of LeT terrorist Shaikh Abdul Naeem alias Nomi, who was arrested in 2007 while trying to help two Pakistani and one Kashmiri terrorist infiltrate into India through Bangladesh. Naeem ditched the police and escaped from custody while he was being taken for court attendance to Maharashtra from Kolkata in August, 2014. The escape from custody emboldened Naeem, who kept playing cat and mouse games with agencies for about three years during which he ...
15 naxals killed in encounter with police in Chhattisgarh
At least 15 Maoists were gunned down today in an encounter with security forces in a dense forest in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, police said. This was one of the biggest anti-Naxal operations in the history of Chhattisgarh, where 15 bodies of rebels were recovered in a single incident, state's Special Director General of Police (anti-Naxal operations) D M Awasthi told reporters here. Two Naxals, including a woman who was injured the gunbattle, were also arrested from the encounter site. Based on intelligence inputs about locations of Naxal camps in south Sukma, two teams of security forces were sent into the forest from different directions last evening, Awasthi said. The teams included personnel of the District Reserve Guard, Special Task Force, Central Reserve Police Force and its elite unit Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA). One of the patrolling teams, comprising around 200 personnel of the STF and the DRG, spotted a Maoist camp this morning at the forest in ...
Delhi Police to question militant arrested in Jammu
Delhi Police will interrogate a militant who was arrested with eight grenades in Jammu late last night, days ahead of the Independence Day. A team of Delhi Police's Special Cell is in Jammu and will be questioning Arfan Wani, a resident of Awantipora in Pulwama district of south Kashmir. Eight live hand grenades and Rs 60,000 in cash were recovered from his possession. Acting on intelligence inputs, police intercepted a bus in Gandhi Nagar area in Jammu late last night and arrested Wani, a police officer said. Police and other security agencies are alert in the wake of intelligence inputs that militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Hizbul Mujahideen plan to carry out terror strikes in Jammu and New Delhi on the occasion of Independence Day on August 15.
14 Maoists killed in Chhattisgarh
Fourteen Maoist guerrillas were killed in a gun battle with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, police said on Monday.
14 Naxals killed in Sukma
In a massive victory to the security forces in Chhattisgarh, at least 14 Maoists were killed in an encounter on Monday near Sukma's Konta and Golapalli police station limits.The security forces also recovered 16 weapons from the spot.According to Sukma's Superintendent of Police, Abhishek Meena, the encounter broke out in the morning when the police patrol party was carrying out a search operation in the area.The security forces are continuing with their search to check the presence of more Naxals around the encounter site.Earlier this month, the Chhattisgarh Police said that Maoists had released a pamphlet claiming that they lost 247 of their cadres in encounters with security forces over the last two years.However, Special Director General (Anti-Naxal Operations) DM Awasthi said that security forces recovered bodies of 208 Naxals in more than 500 encounters between August 2016 and July 2018.
Osama's son married 9/11 hijacker's daughter
Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has married the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 2001 terror attacks in the US, according to the family.
Yemen: US allies don't defeat al-Qaida but pay it to go away
Again and again over the past two years, a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States has claimed it won decisive victories that drove al-Qaida militants from their strongholds across Yemen and shattered their ability to attack the West. Here's what the victors did not disclose: many of their conquests came without firing a shot. That's because the coalition cut secret deals with al-Qaida fighters, paying some to leave key cities and towns and letting others retreat with weapons, equipment and wads of looted cash, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. Hundreds more were recruited to join the coalition itself. These compromises and alliances have allowed al-Qaida militants to survive to fight another day and risk strengthening the most dangerous branch of the terror network that carried out the 9/11 attacks. Key participants in the pacts said the US was aware of the arrangements and held off on any drone strikes. The deals uncovered by the AP .
LS pays homage to victims of bombing in Hiroshima, Nagasaki
The Lok Sabha today paid homage to victims of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which wreaked havoc of unimaginable dimensions in Japan in 1945. As soon as the House met for the day, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said two bombs were dropped on the two Japanese cities 73 years ago which resulted in death of thousands of innocent people, including women and children, and million were injured and crippled for life. "Atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 respectively, which wreaked havoc of unimaginable dimensions. "Today, even after 73 years, the innocent residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki continue to suffer from the dreadful after effects of nuclear radiations," she said in the obituary references. Mahajan said India has always strived for peace and stability with its long cherished principles of non-violence and spirit of 'ahimsa'. "Let us on this occasion, reaffirm our resolve to strive for the elimination of weapons of mass ..
Japan marks 73rd anniversary of atomic attack on Hiroshima
A bell tolled today in Hiroshima as Japan marked 73 years since the world's first atomic bombing, with the city's mayor warning that rising nationalism worldwide threatened peace. The skies over Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park were clear, just as they were on August 6, 1945, when an American B-29 bomber dropped its deadly payload on the port city dotted with military installations, ultimately killing 140,000 people. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, standing at the park near ground zero for the annual ceremony, made his annual call for a world without nuclear weapons and warned of the threat of rising nationalism. Without naming specific nations, he warned that "certain countries are explicitly expressing self-centred nationalism and modernising their nuclear arsenals." They were "rekindling tensions that had eased with the end of the Cold War," he added. He urged the abolition of nuclear weapons, in a year when President Donald Trump pledged to increase the US nuclear arsenal. "If the ..
Militant arrested with grenades in Jammu
A militant was arrested here with eight hand grenades intended to be used during Independence Day here and in the national capital, police said on Monday.
Militant killed in Pakistan
A militant linked to Pakistan Taliban was killed today by the security forces during a gun battle in country's restive northwest region, said security sources. Naseebur Rahman, associated with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, was killed in Jani khel area of Bannu district during an operation in the area. For over a decade, the inaccessible and mountainous tribal area of North Waziristan was home to a swirling array of violent jihadists. The military launched an operation in June 2014 to flush out militants from the area.
Separatist shutdown affects life across Kashmir Valley
Life across the Kashmir Valley remained adversely affected for the second consecutive day due to a separatist-called protest shutdown on Monday.
6 arrested over Venezuelan President's alleged assassination bid
Six people have been arrested over an alleged assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro here, the interior minister said.
Japan marks 73rd anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
Japan on Monday marked the 73rd anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima during the Second World War, with the city's Mayor making a fresh call for a world without nuclear weapons through dialogue.
Militant arrested with 8 grenades in Jammu
A militant was arrested and eight grenades recovered from him in Jammu as police foiled a major terror plot to trigger blasts in the winter capital, days ahead of the Independence Day. Acting on intelligence inputs, police intercepted a bus in Gandhi Nagar area here late last night and arrested a youth from Kashmir who was carrying eight hand grenades, a police officer said. The militant was identified as Arfan Wani, a resident of Awantipora in Pulwama district of south Kashmir. Eight live hand grenades and Rs 60,000 in cash were recovered from his possession, the officer said. Police and other security agencies are alert in the wake of intelligence inputs that the Kashmiri militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Hizbul Mujahideen plan to carry out terror strikes in Jammu and New Delhi on the occasion of Independence Day on August 15. In view of the arrest, a high alert has been sounded in Jammu. The militant is being put through sustained interrogation to ...
Somalia: 6 killed in two car bomb blast
Six people were killed and 13 others were injured in two bombings, which rocked Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Sunday.As per the Voice of America, the incident took place outside a coffee shop on the capital's busiest road.Mogadishu officials believe the car was driven by a suicide bomber.Till now no one has claimed responsibility for the blast.This was the second blast in a day.Earlier, two people were killed in a suicide car bomb exploded near a military vehicle in Afgoye.
IS kills one of dozens of hostages in southern Syria
The Islamic State jihadist group has executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from Syria's southern province of Sweida last week, a journalist in the area and a monitor said today. The killing prompted an offer from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to exchange captured jihadists for the remaining Druze civilians. IS went on a rampage in Sweida on July 25, killing more than 250 people -- mostly civilians - in the deadliest attack ever to target the mostly government-held province and its Druze religious minority. The jihadists also kidnapped more than 30 people, most of them women and children, from a village in the province, which had previously remained largely isolated from Syria's seven-year civil war. On Thursday, IS killed a 19-year-old male student who was among the hostages, the head of the Sweida24 news website Nour Radwan told AFP. Quoting relatives, Radwan, who was speaking from Sweida, said the young man was taken from the village of Al-Shabki on July ..
2 car bomb blasts kill 6 in Somalia
Two car bombs hit Somalia today, killing six people. Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels claimed responsibility for the first suicide car bomb blast that that killed four people when it exploded near the gate of a military base in Afgoye town, 30 kilometres northwest of Mogadishu. Al-Shabab has claimed the responsibility for the attack, according to the group's radio arm, Andalus. Two of the dead were soldiers and fatalities could increase from the 10 injured in the blast which was close to the former national water agency's offices, said Somali police officer Col. Ahmed Ali. Residents report hearing a powerful explosion, followed by gunfire from the base. Addow Isse, a resident in the town, said he saw at least three bodies lying in a pool of blood. Later Sunday, another car bomb killed two people and injured four others at a restaurant near a security checkpoint and immigration headquarters in Mogadishu.
Last survivor of famed immigrant French Resistance group dies at 101
The last surviving member of a group of immigrant workers that courageously resisted the Nazi occupation of France during World War II has died at the age of 101, his family said today. Arsene Tchakarian, a tailor of Armenian origin, died on Saturday at a hospital near his home in the Paris suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine. He was a member of a small group of foreign Resistance members led by Armenian poet and fellow communist Missak Manouchian that carried out attacks on German forces and acts of sabotage in Nazi-occupied France in 1943. In 1944, the group, which included a number of Jews, was put out of action when 23 of its members were rounded up and sentenced to death by a German military court. The collaborationist Vichy regime later tried to discredit the group and defuse the anger over the executions in an infamous red poster depicting the dead fighters as terrorists. Tchakarian, who was born in Turkey in 1916, managed to avoided arrest and escape to Bordeaux, where he remained ...
Officials: Heavy fighting near Yemen's Hodeida kills 80
Yemeni officials and witnesses say recent heavy fighting between pro-government forces and Shiite rebels in the port province of Hodeida has killed at least 80 people on both sides. They said Sunday that forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition have been trying to seize the rebel-held district of ad-Durayhimi south of Hodeida city and at least 100 have been wounded over a 24-hour period. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, while the witnesses did so for fear of reprisal. The Yemen conflict was sparked by the rebels' takeover of Yemen's capital, Sanaa in 2014, which routed the internationally recognized government. A Saudi-led coalition has been at war with the Iran-backed rebels, known as the Houthis, since March 2015.