30 killed in Pakistan violence
Islamabad, Sep 8 (DPA) Four school children and 24 Islamic militants were killed Tuesday in ongoing violence in Pakistan’s lawless …
Three guilty of UK airline bomb plot
London, 07 Sept 2009: Three men have been found guilty of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up planes from London to North America with home-made liquid bombs.
A Woolwich Crown Court jury convicted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29, of conspiring to activate bombs disguised as drinks.
Pro-al Qaeda group tried to assassinate Blair, Carter in Gaza
Jerusalem, Sep. 7 : A Gaza Strip based pro-al Qaeda terrorist organization has revealed that it tried to kill former British prime minister and Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair and former US president Jimmy Carter.
Mahmoud Taleb, a former commander of Hamas’s armed wing, disclosed that his men had planned to assassinate Carter and Blair during their recent visits to the Gaza Strip,
Raiders kill 20 as political tensions mount in south Sudan
Sep 5: Tribesmen killed 20 people, including a chief and his family, in an attack on a south Sudan village in the latest violence in the oil-producing territory, the South Sudan army said on Saturday.
An army spokesman accused former foreign minister Lam Akol, now the leader of a breakaway political party, of arming the attackers from his Shilluk tribe.
Swat, Malakand almost cleared of militants: Pakistan president
Islamabad, Sep 5: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that militants have been ‘almost cleared’ from the northwest of …
Pak terror suspect swallows sim-card in Liberia
Monrovia (Liberia), Sep.4: One of the six Pakistanis, who was trying to enter Liberia on ‘fake’ US passports but was …
Israel: pictures of St. Mary as terrorist removed
ERUSALEM, Thu, Sep 3: The Israeli journalists’ union on Thursday took down a series of pictures that superimposed the faces of female Palestinian suicide bombers on Madonna-and-child paintings after the images sparked a public furor.
Yossi Bar-Mocha, the head of the National Federation of Israeli Journalists, said his organization removed the pictures from its Tel Aviv headquarters
Afghan spy boss killed in Taliban suicide attack
KABUL — A Taliban suicide bomber attacked officials leaving a mosque east of the capital Wednesday, killing the country’s deputy intelligence chief and 23 other people in a major blow to Afghanistan’s security forces.
The brazen assault occurred as tensions are running high after last month’s divisive presidential election and a sharp rise in U.S. casualties
US report reveals Pak enhancing nuke weapon capability to target India
Washington, Sep.1: Top US nuclear scientists have shockingly revealed in a report that Pakistan is enhancing its nuclear weapons and production capabilities.
According to the report, which is yet to enter the public domain, Pakistan is readying a new nuclear capable ballistic missile for deployment and two nuclear capable cruise missiles.
Despite million-dollar US offer, Scotland freed Lockerbie bomber
Washington, Aug. 30: The United States had offered ‘millions’ to keep the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, under house arrest in UK, but Scotland went ahead with the controversial decision to release the convicted Lockerbie bomber.
US officials had “very reluctantly” backed a proposal to move Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi from Greenock Prison into some kind of high-security accommodation elsewhere in Scotland