PATHANKOT: Hours before terrorists struck at the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot early on Saturday, at least one of them spoke to their families back in Pakistan. Sources told Zee Media that Indian intelligence agencies intercepted four international calls to Pakistan from in and around Pathankot after 12:35 am on Friday midnight. The terrorist spoke to his mother on phone ...

Saudi Arabia-led coalition could resume bombing raids in Yemen that are targeting Houthi rebels after it decided to end a ceasefire that had begun on December 15. The break in fighting between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi anti-government forces had been regularly broken by both sides over the last couple of weeks. “The leadership of the coalition supporting legitimacy ...

INDIA: At least seven people are dead after gunmen launched an attack on an Indian air force base near to the border with Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. A group of gunmen raided the Pathankot air force base in the northwestern state of Punjab. An Indian government official told CNN that two members of the Indian Security Forces, one civilian, ...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia executed 47 people on Saturday for terrorism, mostly said to be Al Qaeda members but also a prominent Shia Muslim cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, Interior Ministry said in a statement broadcast on state television. The conservative Islamic kingdom, which usually executes people by public beheading, detained thousands of militants after a series of Al Qaeda attacks from 2003-06 ...

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who is pushing for executive powers, cites Hitler’s Germany as an example of an effective presidential system, in comments broadcast by Turkish media on Friday. Erdogan wants to change the Turkish constitution to turn the ceremonial role of president into that of a chief executive, a Turkish version of the system in the United States, ...

WORLD 2015: This past year was one marred by war and humanitarian crisis – a year that also saw a spike in terror attacks around the world – the first being the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. Here is a panorama of world events in 2015. – January – – 7 to 9: FRANCE – Seventeen people are slaughtered in ...

ENGLAND: A Muslim convert who used Facebook to say he would bomb an MP’s house after she voted in favour of British air strikes in Syria has been jailed for eight weeks. Craig Wallace, 23, who converted to Islam while serving a jail term for attempted robbery, wanted to target Tory MP Charlotte Leslie. Three weeks after he was released from ...

PARIS – A total of 110 journalists were killed around the world in 2015, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday, noting that while many died in war zones the majority were killed in supposedly peaceful countries. Sixty-seven journalists were killed in the line of duty, the watchdog group said in its annual roundup, listing war-torn Iraq and Syria as ...

LONDON: Aspiring suicide bomber Mohammed Rehman and his secret wife Sana Ahmed Khan have been found guilty of planning a massive terror attack on London to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the 7/7 atrocity. Going by the name Silent Bomber, the Islamic extremist, 25, took to Twitter in May asking for suggestions on which target to choose – Westfield shopping ...

ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities have arrested three suspected members of the militant Islamic State (IS) group in Istanbul, including two Pakistanis and a Briton, state media said Tuesday. The state-run Anatolia news agency said the Pakistani suspects had been detained last week in a raid on their homes in Istanbul’s central Mecidiyekoy district. Police then expanded the operation based on intelligence ...