ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Ahmed Bugti accused the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) on Saturday of being behind terror attacks in Pakistan. Bugti condemned Friday’s bombing of an Islamic religious gathering and said nearly 55 people were killed. “We know each and e...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) in Somalia has announced that it apprehended a senior al-Shabaab operative responsible for procuring weaponry and explosives from foreign sources. The spy agency said Sakaria Kamal, better known as Saki, is responsible for procuring weaponry “solely to arm the...
Sources told media outlets, the Afghan leadership discussed cracking down on the TTP in a meeting with Pakistani officials last week in Kabul KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has arrested 200 militants suspected of carrying out cross-border attacks on Pakistan. These arrests came after a brutal attack on two...
Attack comes at a time when Pakistan is already grappling with a series of security challenges ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – At least 52 people were killed and 114 injured in a suicide blast that targeted a procession in Mastung district of Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Friday. The explosion occurred near the Madina Masjid on Alfalah ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Several security personnel were injured when double car bombings hit Somalia’s central town of Dhusamareb, an official said. Ibrahim Gedi, a security officer in the town of Adado in the central state of Galmudug, told the media over the phone that one car exploded on the airport road while the second […]...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Three of the armed ethnic Serbs who attacked police in northern Kosovo on Sunday morning have been killed and several others injured have been detained, Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on Sunday. “What we have learned so far, as we thought before, is that it is a professional terrorist/criminal structure [...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 70 al-Shabaab men were killed Sunday in a military operation conducted by the Somali National Army backed by local militias in north-central Mudug province. The joint force raided al-Shabaab hideouts and gathering places in the town of Aad. Ringleaders of the group were among those were killed in the [&...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Pakistan Army on Thursday killed eight militants in two separate operations in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Five terrorists and their “facilitators” were also arrested during the operations, the military said in a statement. In the first operation in the Bannu district, six terrorists w...
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius claims that senior government officials have told him that the CIA is sharing counterterrorism information with Taliban WASHINGTON – Michael Leiter, former head of the National Counterterrorism Center, has stated that the interests of the U.S. and the Taliban currentlyruling Afghanistan are aligne...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) — The UK on Tuesday announced the equivalent of $6.2 million in funding to support Somali security forces as they combat terrorism and work to restore stability in areas liberated from the al-Shabaab group. “The UK Government has announced a further £5 million in funding for the UN Support Office in Somalia [&hell...
