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Afghan Special Operations commandos deployed to clear Tora Bora from ISIS
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 18 (ANI): The Afghan National Army has deployed commandos from its Special Operations to Tora Bora valley, which earlier hosted a hideout of slain al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, days after the Islamic State's offshoot in Afghanistan claimed the capture of th
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Terrorism can't be defeated by finger-pointing: Pak Army Chief
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 17 (ANI): Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has alleged that some regional players were avoiding their responsibilities in the fight against terrorism and instead hurling blames at others.
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ISIS claims capturing Bin Laden's hideout in Afghanistan
Updated : 8 years, 9 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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Turkish FM in Qatar to resolve Gulf diplomatic rift
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Doha [Qatar], June 15 (ANI): Taking initiative to resolve the Gulf crisis Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has landed in Doha in a first leg to his Gulf tour to mend Qatar's ties with Arab states and said the crisis should be resolved "through peace and dialogue".
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Pentagon agrees to USD 12 billion jet deal with Qatar
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], June 15 (ANI): The Gulf region may be in throes of a major diplomatic crisis, with several countries cutting off ties with Qatar owing to its reported support for terror-related intiatives, but this has not stopped Doha from arriving at an agreement with the
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Pentagon strikes USD 12 billion jet deal with Qatar
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 15 (ANI): As Qatar faces regional isolation due to the ongoing diplomatic rift with its Middle-Eastern neighbours, the United States confirmed the sale of F-15 fighters worth USD 12 billion to Qatar, according to CNN.
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Qatar hosted Taliban reconciliation talks on U.S. request: Qahtani
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 14 (ANI): Frustrated with the U.S. allegations of its alleged involvement in supporting "terrorism", Qatar has cited the examples how it tried and hosted the reconciliation talks with Taliban to bring peace in Afghanistan.
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Are you with us or with Qatar: Saudi King asks Pakistan PM
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has told Saudi Arabia that Pakistan will not take sides in the ongoing the Middle East diplomatic row, leading King Salman to ask Islamabad "are you with us or with Qatar".
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Amid diplomatic crisis, U.S. Ambassador to Qatar to step down
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [U.S.], June 14 (ANI): United States ambassador to Qatar, Dana Shell Smith yesterday announced that she will step down later this month, after being in the post for last three years.
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Milk crisis: Businessman plans to airlift 4,000 cows to 'isolated
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June. 14 (ANI): Amid the blockade by Gulf Arab neighbours, Qatar is slowly entering into a crisis situation. In an attempt to solve the supply-demand woes over milk, a local businessman is working on plans to airlift 4,000 Holstein dairy cows into the country.
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U.S. gamble of supporting Al-Qaeda backfired, says Putin
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia] , June 13 (ANI) : Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the United States gamble of creating and nurturing Al -Qaeda and its late mastermind Osama bin Laden to fight Soviet troops in Afghanistan, has now backfired and "That is the trap in which the United Stat
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Sharif, army chief meet Saudi King to discuss Gulf crisis
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 13 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to meet King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz as part of efforts to help resolve the ongoing diplomatic crisis in the Middle East.
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