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U.S. jet shoots down 'Iranian drone' in Syria
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], June 20 (ANI): A U.S. F-15 fighter jet shot down an armed Iranian drone advancing on coalition forces in southern Syria near At Tanf, the US-led coalition said on Tuesday.
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Pakistan 'shoots down' Iran's surveillance drone in Balochi
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], June 20 (ANI): The Pakistani military has shot down an Iranian "spy drone" over Panjgur in Balochistan, some 45km inside Pakistan territory on Tuesday.
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Kabul lauds Iran for hosting Afghan refugees
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul,[Afghanistan] June 20 (ANI): Afghanistan's Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has hailed Iran's efforts to host Afghan refugees over the past three decades.
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Iran bans 'un-Islamic' Zumba
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], June 20 (ANI): Iran has banned Zumba exercise classes, terming it 'un-Islamic'.
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Iran launches missiles into eastern Syria
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], June 19 (ANI): Iran's Revolutionary Guard has said that it launched several missiles into Syria, targeting Islamic State fighters in retaliation for the attacks in Tehran on June 7.
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39 Indians trapped in Mosul presumed to be alive: MEA
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): The 39 people from Punjab currently trapped in Iraq's war-torn Mosul are presumed to be alive, said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), as the Indian Government has received no information to the contrary.
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ISIS media leader killed in Afghanistan: U.S.
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], June. 17 (ANI): In a major development, the United States military has confirmed the killing of a senior member and the destruction of a media hub of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria-Khorasan (ISIS-K), the Afghanistan branch of the terrorist group.
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39 Indian hostages in Iraq's Mosul alive:MEA
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 16 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday that 39 Indians taken hostage in the Iraqi city of Mosul by the fighters aligned to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2014 are alive.
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ISIS claims capturing Bin Laden's hideout in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 16 (ANI): The offshoot of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Afghanistan, ISIS Khurasan, has claimed that it has captured slain al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden's hideout in the remote Tora Bora valley in eastern Nangarhar province.
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Iranian security forces kill two terrorists in Chabahar, arrest five
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], June 15 (ANI): Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi has said that two terrorist were killed and five others arrested by the security forces in Sistan-and-Baluchestan province's Chabahar city on Wednesday.
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Indian-origin Leo Varadkar formally elected as Ireland's first gay pr
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], June 15 (ANI): Leo Varadkar, an openly gay Irish minister of Indian-origin, has been officially elected as the country's youngest and first openly gay prime minister.
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Amid Gulf crisis, certain regional states to increase arms purchase: Irani
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Oslo [Norway], June 14 (ANI): Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that the current diplomatic crisis in the Gulf region may bring about an increase in the purchase of arms by certain regional states.
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