NEWS DESK: India should get ready for an “all-out confrontation” along the entire stretch of the disputed boundary with China, the country’s state media said on Tuesday, threatening to open up new fronts of conflict on the 3,488 km non-demarcated border between the two countries, reported Hindustan Times. China isn’t afraid to go to “war”…

NEWS DESK: Clashes erupted in Hamburg, Germany, as G20 summit leaders, including US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, began arriving on Friday. The German police fired water cannons and pepper spray at the protesters, reported BBC and Channel 4. Many were protesting the arrivals of Trump and Putin, calling the protest ‘Welcome…

Visiting a classroom or playground in the sprawling camps now home to Iraqis who have fled Isis, it can take a while to realise what’s missing at first. There are colourful posters and drawings on the walls, toys to play with, music and games. But the sound of kids laughing, annoying each other and joining…

RAQQA: A female Kurdish sniper’s brush with death is going viral over the internet as the woman can be seen laughing and chatting away after a bullet misses her head narrowly.  This video is from the city of Raqqa, where the YPJ and Iraqi forces backed by the United States, are embroiled in conflict with…

Tuesday’s wave of cyber attacks, which hit a clutch of multinationals, came just six weeks after what the EU’s law enforcement agency described as an “unprecedented” attack by WannaCry Ransomware. From “cyberwar” to “hacktivism” and “cyberterrorism”, here are some of the major cyber attacks over the past decade: – Cyberwar – The Baltic nation of…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that the recent downings of a Syrian jet and of an Iranian-made drone could be “very dangerous” and lead to an escalation of the war in Syria. Guterres also sought to downplay expectations of a breakthrough in the next round of UN-led peace talks on Syria starting on July…

LONDON: The Syrian conflict is “unwinnable”, Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday in his first speech in Britain since taking over as UN Secretary General. “It is high time to understand that this is a war where nobody is winning and this is a war which is becoming a danger to all of us” by boosting…

WASHINGTON: There is increasing evidence that India could launch a preemptive first strike against Pakistan, if it feared a nuclear attack was imminent, abandoning its well-known ‘no-first use’ policy, according to a leading nuclear strategist. “There is increasing evidence that India will not allow Pakistan to go first,” Vipin Narang, an Indian-origin nuclear strategist from…

Washington: US President Barack Obama declared Friday that Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime and its Iranian and Russian backers are responsible for the slaughter of civilians in Aleppo, with “blood… on their hands.” “The world as we speak is united in horror at the savage assault by the Syrian regime and its Russian and Iranian allies…

Western powers called Saturday for talks between the Syrian regime and the opposition in a bid to end a war that has cost more than 300,000 lives but desperation hung over a meeting in Paris. With Bashar al-Assad’s forces pursuing an onslaught on rebel-held areas of Aleppo assisted by Russian air power, the West’s powerlessness…

Federal Defence Minister Khawaja Asif says that India has declared an undeclared war on Pakistan, warning the whole region could be engulfed in a full-scale war at any time. The minister’s remarks came after Indian security forces targeted a civilian bus, killing seven passengers. An army captain and two soldiers also embraced martyrdom in unprovoked…

ANKARA: Turkey said on Wednesday it fears the world will be plunged into a global conflict with superpowers Russia and the US on opposing sides if the proxy war in Syria continues. “If this proxy war continues, after this, let me be clear, America and Russia will come to a point of war,” Deputy Prime…

WASHINGTON: Fifteen years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, President Barack Obama and the American military have dug in for a long campaign that defies rigid timelines and easy barometers of victory. On October 7, 2001, in response to the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom to dislodge the Taliban and…

KARACHI: Chief of the Naval staff, Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah visited forward posts of Pakistan Navy at Creeks area to review the combat readiness of Pakistan Navy. The Admiral was accompanied by Commander Coast Rear Admiral Waseem Akram.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says Pakistan wants peace to pursue its development agenda but every Pakistani is ready to defend the motherland. Addressing special meeting of the cabinet in Islamabad today the Prime Minister declared that the entire nation stands shoulder to shoulder with armed forces. “We would not allow anyone to cast an…

Failing to terrorise Pakistan with his continued tirade and jingoism, frustrated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi now seeks another war – this time against poverty in the region. Watch this report on his U-turn…

NAIROBI: Nearly a million refugees fleeing the brutal conflict in South Sudan, most of them women and children, are suffering dire conditions in camps across the region, the UN said on Monday. Refugee agency UNHCR said arrivals in Uganda alone had peaked at “more than 8,000 in one day” last month after an outbreak of…

RIYADH: As tribal mediation brings calm to the Saudi-Yemen border after a nearly year-long campaign led by Riyadh against Yemeni rebels, Washington has welcomed talk of an end to the coalition’s major combat. The United Nations on Friday echoed US concerns over non-military casualties, saying the alliance had caused the vast majority of civilian deaths…

Written By: Shahid Wafa  After Isha prayer, it was dark and quiet in the Masjid. Most of the Namazis had left and rest were either talking to each other in hushed voices or doing Zikr. I too was there and trying to absorb the sacred serenity, then suddenly a firm voice echoed from nearby. “If…

ANKARA: Turkey and Russia do not have the luxury of unfriendly relations, Turkey’s EU minister said on Thursday, two days after Turkish jets shot down a Russian plane along the Syria border. Speaking in Ankara, Volkan Bozkir said he expected ties with Moscow to be maintained following the incident, which elicited a furious response from…

NEW DELHI: India cleared on Tuesday a $2.5 billion deal to buy 37 military helicopters from aviation giant Boeing, on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States. Modi’s government is in the middle of a multi-billion dollar upgrade of its Soviet-era military hardware, partly to keep up with neighbouring rival…