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Under the strategy, moderate Syrian rebels, trained by the US Army, will fight the militant group on the ground and help coordinate air strikes by the US coalition, launched from Turkish air bases.

The broadcaster quoting military spokesman Lt. Col. Manish Mehta as blaming Pakistani military for heavy firing and mortar shelling on forward posts and civilian villages in Poonch and Balakote sectors since Sunday morning.

But it has launched more than 400 strikes against the PKK in and outside Turkey, he said. The government considers the PKK a terrorist organization just like the Islamic State, as do various Western countries.

Jeb Bush, the brother of former US President George W. Bush, is taking advice from former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Market Watch reported on Friday.

Since yesterday mortar shelling and heavy firing going on overnight in Hamirpur, Sujiyan, in Mandi sectors along LoC in Poonch.

“Neither candies nor gifts will be offered or taken on August 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day and August 15, when India got freedom in 1947”, a senior government officer said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey will open other bases for Coalition operations against the Islamic State.

The organizations said they had also documented two such attacks against Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province on June 28. But the Peshmerga official said the weapons were made of chlorine.

Yemen’s al-Qaida branch has exploited the chaos in this embattled country to capture three towns near the southern port city of Aden where pro-government forces have been advancing against Shiite rebels in recent weeks, officials said Thursday.

Wednesday saw U.S. warplanes deploy for airstrikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria after taking off from a Turkish base, for the first time.

Such was the power of the blast that houses in a village several hundred metres (yards) away were hit by debris and several villagers slightly injured, the Dogan news agency said. The account could not immediately be verified.

Bilgiç said that the coalition aircraft flying from Turkish bases could target Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, but were not authorised to provide air support to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria.

The Anadolu news agency on Saturday reported that 260 PKK members have been killed and between 380 and 400 wounded in the bombardments launched a week ago by the Turkish army on their positions in northern Iraq.

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants attacked a military outpost and a police vehicle in southeast Turkey overnight, killing a policeman, officials and security sources said on Sunday, in further violence jeopardising a fragile peace process.

With this, BSF beat its own record from last year when it planted over 3,09,000 trees in a similar drive. “Neither are we going to offer nor will we accept any gift”, said BSG IG Punjab Frontier Anil Paliwal. has decided that it will neither offer nor accept candies...