People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard. ─ AP A gunman perched high on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower of bullets down on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 200 as tens of thousands of frantic concert-goers ...

Violations carry a possible fine of nearly $180. Police are authorised to use force if people resist showing their faces. HEIDELBERG: A law that forbids any kind of full- face covering, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa, has come into force in Austria. Starting on Sunday, wearing a ski mask off the slopes, a surgical mask outside ...

KABUL: The Human Rights Watch in its latest report has revealed that young Afghan boys as young as fourteen years old have been recruited by Iran to fight in Syria. According to a new report by the Human Right Watch, the children have been recruited y the Revolutionary Guard of Iran and several of them have been killed and buried ...

KABUL: At least four people including two Pakistanis have been arrested on charges of supplying weapons and ammunition to the anti-government armed militant groups in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The provincial government in a statement said the men were arrested during an operation from Momand Dara district. The statement further added that the suspects had placed eight rounds of ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani says Afghans are one nation and believed in one creed, a fact the enemy of Afghanistan should know and believed that they will never be able to divide this nation. The president expressed the view in a gathering marking 10th Muharramul Haram or Ashura Day at Imam Zaman Mosque here. He said: “our enemy should know that effort to divide us will fail. We ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and the Pakistani army chief of staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa held talks on key bilateral issues. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, in a statement said President Ghani welcomed the delegation of the Pakistani officials led by Gen. Bajwa. President Ghani hailed the visit by the Pakistani officials as an important step considering ...

French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British PM Theresa May at the EU summit in Brussels, Belgium on June 22.— Reuters EUROPE is getting very complicated. And even more confusing than usual. But there’s no doubt that after years of political paralysis and economic stagnation, the continent is on the move again, with no dull moment. So ...

RAWALPINDI: Five days after the flag of militant Islamic State (IS) group was seen in Islam­abad and a day after chalking of a local banned sectarian outfit cropped up on electric poles in the strictly guarded Pakistan Ordi­nance Factory area of Wah, graffiti of ‘Daesh’ — Arabic acronym for the IS — was noticed on a traffic signboard in the ...

KABUL: US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has accused Iran and Russia over armed support to Afghan Taliban, a media report said on Saturday. The Pentagon chief blasted Russia and Iran’s continued support to Taliban jihadists, echoing concerns previously expressed by US officials, including Gen. Nicholson, who has also noted that Pakistan is assisting the terrorist group as well. “Those two countries have suffered ...

KABUL: At least twenty militants including Pakistani and ISIS insurgents were killed in the airstrike and military operations in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The provincial government media office in a statement said the militants were killed in Nazian and Lalpur districts. The statement further added that seven Pakistani militants and fifteen ISIS loyalists were killed in total during the ...