Afghan commandos and an intelligence unit over the weekend raided a Taliban warehouse used to store explosives expected to be used by jihadis from al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) to carry out attacks in Kabul and other “major cities.”
Taliban narco-jihadis claimed responsibility for a suicide attack Tuesday that killed at least 24 people and wounded 30 others at an election campaign rally held by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
Pakistani authorities arrested a Hindu principal over the weekend after “blasphemy” allegations against him prompted a mob to ransack a temple and damage a school and homes belonging to the minority group.
Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda wing in Somalia, carried out a wave of attacks over the weekend using heavy weapons to kill at least 17 people in the East African country.
U.S. military and Afghan security forces killed an estimated 172 Taliban narco-jihadis over the weekend as both warring sides stepped up attacks in the wake of the cancellation of peace talks.
Forces loyal to renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar on Monday launched airstrikes on the coastal city of Sirte currently held by the internationally recognized government, expanding the conflict beyond the capital of Tripoli.
Indian authorities in New Delhi-held Kashmir have detained nearly 4,000 people, about 80 percent of them accused of stone-pelting, in a bid to stifle protests since revoking the region’s limited autonomy last month, Reuters reported Thursday.
American forces did conduct a series of airstrikes this week against scores of Taliban narco-jihadis who heavily rely on lethal opium and its heroin activities to continue waging war.
The audience at a movie premiere Wednesday in Damascus surprised murderous Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad with birthday songs for his 54th birthday.
Islamic State is intensifying online threats against New York City and the NYPD, disseminating bloody images of officers and menacing messages in subways, counterterrorism officials said this week.
WASHINGTON, DC — Foreign Minister of Brazil Ernesto Araujo claimed on Wednesday his country has “benefitted a lot from trade with China,” apparently diverging from conservative President Jair Bolsonaro’s warnings against business with the communist regime as a presidential candidate last year.
Two women enraged over their estranged husband seeking a third partner via the internet joined forces to confront and thrash their 26-year-old spouse on Tuesday.
A stampede during commemorations for the Shiite holy day of Ashoura in the Iraqi city of Karbala killed at least 31 people and wounded 100 others, officials said.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton, stepped down on Tuesday, nearly a year-and-a-half after he took the post in April 2018.
The Afghanistan-based Taliban and its global jihadi ally al-Qaeda remain formidable and more geographically dispersed today than during any other time since the 9/11 attacks.
The death penalty trial of the self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind and his four co-conspirators held at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is still pending nearly two decades after the jihadis executed the attack, the deadliest on American soil.
The Taliban on Tuesday vowed to continue fighting in Afghanistan, saying U.S. President Donald Trump would “regret” declaring peace negotiations with the terrorist group over.
Fully integrating Afghanistan into China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will require the construction of rail lines through the southern part of the South Asian country, home to the Taliban’s primary stronghold and the nation’s top opium-producing region.
Historic levels of coca cultivation and other illicit activities at the hands of Communist terrorists have contributed to skyrocketing deforestation rates in Colombia since the rebels signed a peace pact with the government in 2016, official figures show.
The Iranian- and Russian-backed regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad is behind more than 60 percent of the 124 attacks against Christian places of worship in Syria during the ongoing war, according to a report unveiled Monday by a monitor group linked to the opposition.
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have launched a nightly screaming protest at 10:00 p.m., belting out protest slogans from their apartments, reports revealed on Friday.
China’s state-run media on Friday claimed that Germany this week expressed support for Beijing’s anti-Muslim tactics in Xinjiang.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Friday came out in support of the efforts by the Beijing-appointed government of Hong Kong to end the pro-democracy protests in the semi-autonomous Chinese region.
The nearly four-decade-long reign of terror at the hands of Zimbabwe’s late dictator Robert Mugabe left behind a trail of rampant corruption, death, gross human right abuses, and famine.
A member of the Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena filed a police complaint accusing U.S.-based streaming giant Netflix of “defaming Hindus and India” via the shows featured on its platform, Indian news outlets learned this week.
Communist China, in an editorial published Thursday by the state-run People’s Daily, blamed pro-democracy protesters for police brutality against minors in restive Hong Kong.
Pakistan has beefed up its military presence in Islamabad-controlled Kashmir, moving more than 2,000 troops closer to region’s border with India, Asian News International (ANI) reported Thursday.
The World Food Program (WFP) for the second time this year stopped distributing a so-called “nutritious porridge” known as “Super Cereal” across Uganda pending an investigation into food poisoning concerns, the Daily Monitor learned this week.
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte went to Beijing on Wednesday to discuss his country’s territorial claims in the South China Sea and, at the same time, push for speeding up Chinese projects in the Philippines.
China delivered the first batch of a total of 130 buses for a non-existent public transportation network in the besieged capital of Libya, local officials announced over the weekend.
India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear petitions against the Hindu-nationalist-led government’s decision to rescind the autonomy of New Delhi-administered Kashmir, the country’s only Muslim-majority region.
Pakistan threatened to shut down land routes for Indo-Afghan trade and impose a complete ban on the use of its airspace by Indian flights on Tuesday.
The prospective peace pact between the United States and the Taliban may prompt thousands of members of the narco-jihadi group to defect to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) faction in Afghanistan, the Times reported Tuesday.
Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir refused to provide death certificates for civilians killed in the region after the Hindu nationalist-led government revoked the Muslim-majority area’s autonomy, the Independent reported Tuesday.
Japan is working on expanding its economic presence in Africa to counter China’s growing clout, urging its companies on Tuesday to work with startups on the continent.
Kenya began exporting its oil to the international market this week, a move described by President Uhuru Kenyatta as a momentous event in the African nation’s history.
The culture minister of Algeria resigned over the weekend after a stampede at a packed concert by prominent French-based rapper Soolking killed five people.
A Nigerian commander urged troops in the African country on Sunday to “look out for traitors” as Boko Haram jihadis continued to wreak havoc.
Indian Kashmir’s police chief over the weekend came out in support of keeping opposition politicians out of the region, saying the move is intended to avoid “controversial statements.”
The Taliban maintained on Monday that a peace agreement with the United States to end the nearly 18-year-old war in Afghanistan is coming soon.
