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The attacks took place in the Shawal area of the North Waziristan tribal region, hours after a suicide attack killed 18 people, including the home minister of the northeastern Punjab province.

Funeral prayers were held late Sunday for Shuja Khanzada, the home minister for Pakistan’s populous Punjab province, who was killed in a suicide bombing, along with 14 other people. One of the bombers detonated his device at the entrance to the hall, and the other in a back...

Monitoring group Human Rights Watch urged the UN to impose an arms embargo on the Syrian government Thursday to “stop indiscriminate attacks” against civilians, AFP reported.

Ahmed said that all political parties in Yemen should come to an agreement.

If Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decides to call for an early election in Turkey, the country will go to polls in late October, the daily said.

Imam Baba Moussa of Cameroon’s Ngaoundere Mosque said such practices are not part of Islam, and warned parents about Boko Haram fighters who may be recruiting children.

Israel’s High Court began a hearing on Wednesday afternoon on whether to release him due to his health.

Warplanes pounded 17 targets in the province of Hakkari on Monday and Tuesday, the military said, part of a renewed crackdown on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy.

“Diplomatically, India has repeatedly emphasised, including at the highest level, the need for Pakistan to uphold the sanctity of the Line of Control (LoC) and abide by the ceasefire commitment of 2003 along the global Border and LC”, he said.

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian attacker after he stabbed an Israeli police officer at a West Bank checkpoint today, the police and the military said.

“The global media reported that I am dead or I am sick and have lost influence in the affairs of religion”, Xinhua quoted the self-claimed Shekau as saying in the eight-minute Hausa-language recording. “And I will not die until my time appointed by Allah is...

Pakistan on Monday lodged a strong protest against unprovoked ceasefire violations by Indian forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nakial Sector (Kotli).

Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau has refuted recent media reports of his death or replacement in an audio message.

Thought it opposes Islamic State, the Nusra Front last month attacked rebels trained as part of a U.S.-led program to bolster insurgents viewed as moderate enough to fight the ultra-hardline group.

The Turkish military said it hit and neutralized 17 “separatists terrorist targets” in Hakkari province, which borders Iran and Iraq.