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U.S. Embassy Warns Americans: Islamic State Active in India

The U.S. Embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi issued a security message this week, urging Americans to “maintain a high level of vigilance” following media reports highlighting the Islamic State’s “desire to attack targets in India,” namely places that are visited regularly by Westerners.

Kashmir Muslim protesters hold a flag of Islamic State as they shout anti-India slogans du

Afghanistan Struggles to Deal with Wave of Returning Refugees

The U.S.backed government of Afghanistan and aid agencies are reportedly ill-prepared to receive the hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees who have returned home from neighboring Pakistan and Iran as winter closes in and deteriorating security conditions uproot more Afghans across the country.

Migrant Camp

India: Prime Minister Says Pakistan Is the ‘Mothership of Terrorism’

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has labeled its regional rival Pakistan the “mothership of terrorism” and a country that “radiates the darkness of terrorism” as violent and sometimes deadly clashes between the two nuclear-armed nations continue in the disputed region of Kashmir despite a 2003 ceasefire.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is part of

Feds Nab 19 in Indian Immigration-Marriage Scam

JACKSON, Mississippi – Two immigrants from India and 17 others are facing federal charges after hatching a scheme to fraudulently bring more residents from India through a marriage scam that would grant them legal status.

figurines and displayed on a cake during the National Wedding Show at London's Olympi

India: Party Leader Linked to PM Caught Hiding Under Burqa to Molest Women

A leader of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), a right-wing Hindu nationalist party that is linked to the Indian Prime Minister and has been accused of forcing Muslims and Christians in India to become Hindu, was apprehended dressed in a burqa and molesting a female Islam adherent during a religious event in India’s most populous state.

An Indian villager pedals past Burqa clad Muslim students walking to a school at Burhaburh

India, Pakistan Trying to Defuse Rising Tensions in Kashmir

Tensions between regional rivals India and Pakistan have escalated in recent weeks as the two nuclear-armed countries continue to clash along the disputed border that divides the parts of the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir controlled by each country.

Indian Kashmir has been under curfew since protests erupted over the death last month of a

India: Chinese Troops Crossed the Border, Claimed Territory

The Times of India reports on a curious border incursion from mid-September, in which a group of about forty Chinese troops crossed the border (or “Line of Actual Control”), built shelters on Indian soil, and resisted orders from Indian forces to depart, claiming the territory belonged to them.

The Associated Press