Paramilitary forces killed more than 100 civilians in an attack on a city in southern Sudan on Thursday, according to an association of doctors, in the latest large-scale accusation of an atrocity of the country’s civil war. The paramilitary fighters, called the Rapid Support Forces, said on Thursday that they had attacked the city of…
NEW DELHI: Taking serious objection to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi‘s remarks against V D Savarkar, Supreme Court virtually gagged him on Friday, warning him of suo motu action if he derided the freedom fighter and Hindutva proponent in the future. “…This is not the way you treat our freedom fighters,” Justice Dipankar Datta said.A bench…
Even as Pakistan has condemned the recent attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam and denied claims of harbouring terror outfits, its Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday hailed the perpetrators as “freedom fighters”. Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, Dar, who is also the Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan, said, “Those who carried out attacks in…
Ukraine paraded two captured Chinese nationals before a press conference, claiming they were recruited by Russia to fight on the frontlines, echoing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent accusation that Moscow is luring Chinese fighters via social media. The men were handcuffed and under armed guard. Zelenskyy alleged that several hundred Chinese nationals are fighting for Russia….
Paramilitary fighters with Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces began withdrawing from the battle-torn capital of Khartoum in large numbers on Wednesday, fleeing a city they had occupied since a ruinous war broke out nearly two years ago. The capture of the city by Sudan’s military marks a dramatic turning point in what is currently Africa’s largest…
Turkey’s military has kept up deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq on fighters linked to the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K. in the two weeks since the movement’s founder called on his followers to lay down their arms and disband. The P.K.K. leadership, which is based in the Qandil Mountains of Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region, responded…
President Trump’s funding freeze has thrown into confusion the future of a Syrian desert camp holding thousands of Islamic State members and their families, the camp’s director and people familiar with it said, describing it as a potential security threat in the region. The camp, Al Hol, which houses some 39,000 people, has been whipsawed…
“It’s like that old story. You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbours. Eventually, those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard,” said Hillary Clinton about Pakistan in 2011. The remark by Clinton, the US Secretary of State, is reverberating as the Taliban,…
new video loaded: From Fighters to Policemen in a Post-Assad Damascus transcript Back transcript From Fighters to Policemen in a Post-Assad Damascus As the rebels who ousted Syria’s longtime dictator, Bashar al-Assad, transition from insurgents to administrators, maintaining order in the streets of the capital has become a top priority. Until recently, these men were…
Pakistan is set to procure 40 advanced Chinese J-35 stealth fighter jets, according to a Chinese media report.If the deal proceeds, Pakistan will become the first country outside China to operate the J-35. “The sale would mark Beijing’s first export of fifth-generation jets to a foreign ally and is expected to recalibrate regional dynamics, particularly…