At least eight people have been killed and 12 wounded in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint near the Iraq-Syria border. The Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday that a car rigged with explosives drove into the checkpoint in al-Qaim district as it was jointly manned by the Iraqi army and S

BEIJING: China on Monday welcomed the joint participation by India and Pakistan in the ongoing counter-terrorism drill of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Russia. According to the Chinese media, some 3,000 soldiers from China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, India and Pa

ISLAMABAD: India and Pakistan will resume their talks on various aspects of the Indus Waters Treaty in Lahore on Wednesday, the first bilateral engagement since Prime Minister Imran Khan took office. India's Indus Water Commissioner PK Saxena will begin the two-day discussions with his Pakistani

Iran's top defence official has met Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and the country's defence minister in Damascus, pledging to contribute to the war-torn country's reconstruction. Tehran has provided steady political, financial and military backing to Assad during the civil war which is in its

HANOI: External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj arrived in Hanoi on Sunday night as part of her four-day visit to Vietnam and Cambodia, which aims at deepening India's strategic cooperation with the two key nations in the ASEAN region. India's ties are on an upswing with the two major countries in

TEHRAN: A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early Sunday, killing two people and injuring more than 250, officials said. The shallow quake hit 26 kilometres (16 miles) southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah province, the US Geological Survey sa

California: Akali Dal leader and Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) president Manjit Singh GK was attacked by a group of unknown men at the Yuba City Gurdwara in California on Saturday. Three people have so far been arrested in connection with the attack. The attackers pushed Singh

ISLAMABAD: At least 42 Pakistani pilgrims have died during this year’s annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, according to Pakistani government’s figures. Most of the deaths occurred due to suffocation or road accidents. Last year, 108 Pakistani pilgrims had died during Hajj, showing a decline of 8

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Peace Mission exercise started on Friday in Russia, bringing together the Indian and Pakistani militaries under the anti-terror setting for the first time. The six-day SCO Exercise, which has brought the two countries together for the Exercise Peaceful

Hawaiian Ocean View (US): Hurricane Lane drenched Hawaii Thursday ahead of its arrival in the island state, prompting US President Donald Trump to declare a state of emergency as landslides and flash flooding left roads blocked. The National Weather Service said Lane — located about 200 miles (32

Pakistan is hopeful that the country will win the case against alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Thursday. While addressing reporters in Multan city, Qureshi said, “We have solid evidence against Jadhav

KABUL: Afghanistan hopes Russia can press Taliban insurgents into holding peace talks with the government, Afghanistan's top security official said on Wednesday after he met Russia's ambassador in Kabul. The Taliban, fighting to oust U.S. and other foreign forces and defeat Afghanistan's Western-

PARIS, FRANCE: A man armed with a knife killed his mother and sister and seriously injured another person in a town near Paris on Thursday, officials said. The man, who police said had been on a terror watch list since 2016, was later shot and killed after confronting police in Trappes. The mo

TORONTO: Victims of a bomb blast in Canada have sued a popular Indian restaurant near Toronto for damages totalling 6 million dollars, alleging that the attack was a result of a "turf war" between business rivals. On May 24, two persons with their faces covered walked into the Bombay Bhel restaur

Pakistan’s new government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan has “lifted all political censorship” in the state-run media outlets, Information Minister Chaudhary Fawad Hussain claimed today. Promising “visible and drastic changes” in the Ministry of Information within the next three months, the min

The Taliban fired a pair of rockets Tuesday toward the presidential palace in Kabul as the Afghan president was delivering his holiday message for the Muslim celebrations of Eid al-Adha, police said, prompting a ferocious aerial response with helicopter gunships bombing the house from where the rock

Iran unveiled its first domestic fighter jet at a defence show in Tehran on Tuesday. Images on state television showed President Hassan Rouhani sitting in the cockpit of the new “Kowsar” plane at the National Defence Industry exhibition. It is a fourth-generation fighter, with “advanced avioni

NEW DELHI: Fugitive billionaire Nirav Modi is in the UK, officials there have confirmed to India for the first time. The CBI has moved a request to London to extradite the celebrity jeweler, who is wanted for loan fraud. The UK authorities confirmed Nirav Modi's presence on Sunday through a mail