WASHINGTON: Allied missiles struck at the heart of Syrian chemical weapons arsenal in a show of force and resolve aimed at punishing the Assad government for a suspected poison gas attack against civilians and deterring the possible future use of such banned weapons. "A perfectly executed strike,

A Russian court on Friday ruled to ban popular instant messaging service 'Telegram' over its failure to provide access to the Russian security services to users' encrypted messages. "The court ruled to satisfy the demand of Roskomnadzor," Judge Yulia Smolina said. The access to Telegram will b

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif today became ineligible to hold public office for life after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the disqualification of two lawmakers, including him was permanent, in a landmark verdict ending the political future of the three-time prem

An Indian engineer who was accused of sending funds to a leader of the al-Qaida terrorist organization pleaded guilty on April 11 to concealment of funding terrorism in a federal court in Toledo in the United States. Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad, 38, has lived in Toledo since 2006. He is to receive a

France's President Emmanuel Macron says he has "proof" that the Syrian government attacked the town of Douma with chemical weapons last weekend. He said he would decide "in due course" whether to respond with air strikes. Western states are thought to be preparing for missile strikes in response

More than 250 people were killed when a military plane crashed in a field outside Algeria’s capital on April 11, state media said, in the country’s worst air disaster. Television footage showed crowds and emergency vehicles massing around the smoking and flaming wreckage near Boufarik airport sou

Seven Myanmar soldiers have been sentenced to “10 years in prison with hard labour in a remote area” for participating in a massacre of 10 Rohingya Muslim men in a village in northwestern Rakhine state last September, the army said on Tuesday. The military said in a statement published on Command

The Russian military said on Monday that two Israeli F-15 warplanes had carried out strikes on a Syrian air base on Sunday, the Interfax news agency reported. Interfax cited the Russian Defense Ministry as saying the Israeli warplanes had carried out the strikes from Lebanese airspace, and that S

London: Britain's Queen Elizabeth is a descendant of Prophet Muhammed, a Moroccan newspaper has claimed, attributing the bizarre finding to a study. According to the Daily Mail, the findings were first published in 1986 by Burke's Peerage, a British authority on royal pedigrees. The Morrocan news

New Delhi: India and Nepal have agreed to give momentum to bilateral cooperation in agricultural sector for the benefit of farmers of both the nations, an official statement said. The Nepalese Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli is in India on a three-day visit, his first overseas tour after taking cha

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday said there were “no innocent people” in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip after 10 days of protests and clashes left 30 Palestinians dead. “There are no innocent people in the Gaza Strip,” Lieberman told Israel’s public radio. “Everyone’s connected to H

Several people are feared dead after a car drove into a group of people in the western German city of Muenster on Saturday, Reuters reported quoting Spiegel Online. There have been reports of multiple injuries. However, it was not clear whether the incident was an attack. “There are several dead,

A South Korean court jailed former President Park Geun-hye for 24 years on Friday over a scandal that exposed webs of corruption between political leaders and the country's conglomerates. Park became South Korea's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office last year when the Con

Pakistan’s prime minister arrived in Afghanistan on Friday for a day-long visit many see as an effort to ease strained relations between the two neighbors and revive a push for peace talks with the Taliban. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was welcomed by Afghan President Asharf Ghani and the two inspected an h

ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court on Thursday ordered government authorities to not "harass" banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief and 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and allow him to continue his "social welfare activities". The founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) alleged in a petition

KABUL, Afghanistan — Dozens of Afghan civilians, including children, were feared dead Wednesday after government airstrikes hit a religious school graduation in the north of the country, witnesses told NBC News. In the hours after Monday’s bombing, the Afghan Ministry of Defense insisted that the

China hit back quickly on April 4 against the Donald Trump administration’s plans to slap tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods, retaliating with a list of similar duties on key U.S. imports, including soybeans, planes, cars, beef and chemicals. The speed with which the trade tussle between Was

India on Tuesday welcomed the US designating Pakistan-based Milli Muslim League (MML), an alias of Lashkar-e-Taiba, as a foreign terror organisation, saying the decision reflects rejection of the attempts being made in Pakistan to mainstream terrorist individuals and entities. Reacting to the US mov