ANKARA, Turkey -- Six people died Wednesday (July 9th) in a shootout near the US consulate in Istanbul at around 11am local time. Eyewitnesses said that armed assailants opened fire from their vehicle at police officers stationed outside the consulate.
The youngest son of Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden has called for Britain and its allies to be wiped out. Hamza Bin Ladan, 16, the youngest of the Saudi-born warlord's 18 sons, is claimed to be the author of
Three of the men were arrested near the southern town of Huelva while the other was picked up in Azkoitia in the northern Basque country. The men are accused of belonging to a group financing a terror organisation in Algeria,
Military fighter planes gave the pilot of a small plane a military escort on Wednesday after storms caused it to veer off course and be considered suspicious, officials said.The plane was en route to Baytown from McAllen and the pilot
Police officers in Blue Mound didn't think much of the cookies dropped off at their station Monday night - until they got a whiff of them.Overpowering the chocolate chips was the pungent smell of marijuana."It reeked of it," said Lt.
Circulating the questionnaire to governments, political parties, academic institutions and experts, the CCSR, headed by Justice (retd) M M Punchhi, said in the context of recent extremist violence and cross-border terrorism in certain states, the role and responsibility of Central
Shabir Ahmad alias Arsalan was killed and his Pakistani associate was injured in a gunfight with police at Barpora-Wagahama village, Pulwama SSP Ali Mohammad said. The shootout broke out when police, acting on a tip off, launched a search operation
The operations were carried out in Akkamalaimaduvu, Natrampalayam, Chinnar, Ottarmalai and Hogenakkal. However, no one was arrested, police said. According to Superintendent of Police Najmul Hoda, the police personnel also advised the villagers to provide information to the police if
During a search operation in general area of Mahore tehsil in Reasi district, one IED, one Chinese hand grenade and some assorted ammunition, a defence spokesman said here. In another operation, a satellite phone was recovered from Chhatral area of
Security chief Mohamed Lemine Ould Ahmed says police seized the weapons in early May using information given by suspected terrorists arrested in sting operations in April. Ahmed refused to detail quantities, but he said today that it was enough to
The fatwa had nailed the lie 'propounded by communal forces' equating Islam and 'jehad' with terrorism and exposed the propaganda that Muslim organisations were silent on terrorism or that they sympathised with such violent acts, Gowda said in a statement
Judicial Magistrate First Class-I Srinath accepted the Corps of Detectives (COD) plea, which is investigating the terror network busted in the state recently, and issued the warrant to take into their custody Mohammed Yasser, Mohammed Ansar, Dr Munroz and P
Do not give up... Increase your martyrdom (suicide) attacks, the number of rockets you launch (on southern Israel) and your ambushes. There is no other solution," Zawahiri said in a message posted on an Islamist website yesterday on the occasion
Acting on a tip-off, troops of Gorkha Rifles went to Tezi Jengoni village and were fired upon by a group of militants. The troops retaliated and in the encounter that followed, an ULFA cadre was killed. An AK 47 rifle,
Aslam and Saryu were arrested on a tip-off, they said adding that 410 Pakistan made cartridges were recovered from their possession. The police are investigating the matter and trying to elicit more information from the duo.
Jairam Singh Khakhar alias Mahesh was arrested on a tip off, they said adding that a country made pistol and a number of cartridges were recovered from his possession. The naxalite was wanted in a number of cases including murder.
The gunfight followed massive search operations launched by the troops at Roshni Post near Sadhna in Karnah sector of North Kashmir's Kupwara district last night, the spokesman said. The operation was launched in the wee hours yesterday when the troops
The statement from Adm Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came despite concern voiced by US government officials that Pakistan's cease-fire and peace talks with militants in its tribal regions will give hard-liners time and space to
Three unidentified gunmen and three Turkish policemen were killed Wednesday in an attack on a police guard post at the main entrance of the well-fortified U.S. Consulate in Istanbul that officials labeled a "terrorist" act. One person has been taken
