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Yemen breaks off diplomatic ties with Qatar
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Sanaa [Yemen], June 5 (ANI): Following a similar move by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain, Yemen also broke off its ties with Qatar for working with its enemies of the Iran-aligned Houthi militia, local media reports said.
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ISIS surrenders leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's hideout in Iraq
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], June 5 (ANI): The Islamic State has surrendered the key town of Baaj in north-west Iraq, which was a known hideout of the terrorist group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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ISIS radicalizing Muslim youth in Europe to take over West: Defence Expert
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): The Defence Experts on Sunday condemned the recent terror attack in London that claimed seven lives and said that the Islamic States of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is radicalizing the migrant Muslim youth settled in Europe very fast to carry out their plan to take
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Massive explosion leaves 35 injured in Southern Iran
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], June 03 (ANI): A huge explosion at a hypermarket in Iran's southern city of Shiraz wounded at least 35 people on Friday night.
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Indian-origin Varadkar set to become 1st gay PM of Ireland
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], June 3 (ANI): Leo Varadkar, an openly gay Irish minister of Indian-origin, is widely tipped to become the next prime minister of Ireland, thus giving the Catholic nation its first leader of Asian descent.
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Smriti Irani posts video of 'stumped' Congress spokesmen post Ra
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): Union Minister of Textiles Smriti Irani on Friday posted a video which showed Congress party spokesmen stumped and in a fix over giving an appropriate response to a question related to party vice-president Rahul Gandhi's dynasty barb at a rally in Telang
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At least 13 dead in Turkish military helicopter crash
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Sirnak [Turkey], June 1 (ANI): At least 13 soldiers were killed after a Turkish military helicopter crashed near Turkey's border with Iraq after hitting a high-voltage transmission line, according to reports.
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Civilian deaths in war against Islamic State inevitable: Pentagon head
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D. C. [USA], May 29 (ANI): U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis on Sunday said that civilian casualties in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are inevitable even as the U.S. forces "do everything humanly possible" to prevent them.
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Suicide bomb attack kills four in eastern Iraq
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Diyala [Iraq], May 28 (ANI): At least four persons were killed and 18 others injured after a suicide bomber blew himself near a security checkpoint in Iraq's central Baquba city on Sunday.
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Saudi rulers will perish: Khamenei
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], May 28 (ANI): On the occasion of the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that "Saudi rulers are going to perish".
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Pakistani man killed in mortal shelling by Iranian border guards
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Panjgur [Pakistan], May 27 (ANI): A Pakistan man was reportedly killed after a mortar shell was fired allegedly by Iranian border guards in Balochistan's Panjgur district on Saturday, a government official said.
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Top ISIS leaders killed in Afghanistan's Nangarhar
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 26 (ANI): At least seven Islamic State fighters of ISIL-Khorasan province, a branch of the militant Islamist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, were killed in the latest anti-IS operations in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
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