New Delhi, The terror attack in Punjab is a result of intelligence failure, Congress leader Anand Sharma said on Monday. “That should be settled… we are working on that in principle… we hold our armed forces in highest esteem, their families also”, Union...
Suspected militants fired at a bus station and entered police barracks on the outskirts of a northern town bordering Pakistan early on Monday, wounding at least six people, police said. Superintendent Baljit Singh, who was in the forefront, took a bullet on the head and was...
Two army helicopters were also pressed into the operation and a gunbattle was on when reports last came in. Times of India reports that no hostages have been taken at this point.
A bloody and terrifying raid by Boko Haram on Friday left at least 25 people dead in three villages in eastern Nigeria’s Adamawa state, according to residents and a local government official.
Storming in on motorcycles, the gunmen attacked the neighboring villages of Kopa, Maikadire and Yaffa around 9 a.m. local time, shooting and killing residents, as mentioned by witnesses and local government chairman Maina Ularamu.
More than a dozen Taliban militants have been killed as a clash for the control of the strategically important Tirgaran valley in Wardoj district of Badakhshan province has been going for the past two days, a local official said Saturday.
African Union and local troops have seized one of the last major towns held by the al-Shabab Islamic extremist rebels in the southwest of the country, a Somali officer said Wednesday.
Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed more than 20 people including multiple children in their latest attack on northern Cameroon, easily overwhelming the few soldiers posted at the targeted village, residents said Monday.
Boko Haram suicide bombers have killed scores of Muslim worshippers in Damaturu, Yobe State capital when they detonated bombs strapped to their bodies amidst large crowd of worshippers.
The bomb blasts on Friday at the Eid prayer ground in Yobe, Damaturu have been traced to two little girls between the ages of 10 and 11, eyewitnesses and local security sources said.
A few hours after two suicide bombers triggered explosions in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, the Nigerian Army reacted to the incessant attacks by vowing the defeat of insurgent Islamist fighters in the country’s northeast zone.
Among the killed was Mohamed Kuno, who was said to be the mastermind of the April attack on Kenya’s Garissa University that killed 148 people, as indicated by Njoka.
The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, have confirmed that 50 people lost their lives in two bomb explosions that rocked Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, on Friday.