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Last week, Sri Lanka placed all police stations in Colombo on high alert. (Photo:AP)

Have focus on religio-moral deligitimisation of ISIS

The Sri Lanka terror attack reiterates the real problem area, again.

11 May 2019 6:40 PM

The fighting to retake towns has been raging since April. A total of 126 personnel from government-backed forces and 102 rebels have lost their lives in the three towns since the latest offensive was launched three days ago, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Photo: Representational/AFP)

Syrian Army continue offensive to retake rebel-controlled areas

We are heading to the towns of Tal Balah, Jalameh, and Jubain,' a Syrian officer said in the village of Kafr Houd.

10 Jun 2019 10:04 AM

US President Joe Biden (R) and Chinas President Xi Jinping (L) shake hands as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 14, 2022.

Saeed Naqvi | As Beijing tries to broker peace deals, US firms up its...

The US, as yesterday's hegemon, has woefully diminished its persuasiveness

26 March 2023 6:40 PM

International attention has been focused in recent weeks mainly on the plight of civilians in eastern Ghouta, where the United Nations believes 400,000 people have been trapped under punishing bombardment, deprived of food and medicine. (Photo: Representational/ AFP)

After surviving massacre, food medicine shortage, injured leave E...

Women carrying infants, men hobbling on crutches and an old man in a wheelchair waited at a school nearby.

14 March 2018 10:40 AM

At least 20 civilians -- including four children -- were killed in Douma on Saturday, in addition to 17 civilians in other battlefront towns, said the Observatory. (Photo: AFP)

Ghouta sirens distress call as death toll rises to 1000

Shelling and air strikes slammed into Douma on Saturday, trapping residents inside their basements for hours.

11 March 2018 7:05 AM

Government troops have advanced rapidly across farmland in Eastern Ghouta in the past week and had wrested control of 40 percent of the enclave as of early Tuesday. (Photo: AFP)

Homes reduced to rubbles, 800 dead as air strikes continue in E Ghouta

More than 340,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011.

7 March 2018 7:52 AM

Abdel Rahman said the victims had fled battles in the province, where Syrian regime forces and a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, the Syrian Democratic Forces, are fighting the extremist group in separate offensives. (Photo: AFP)

Syria: UN first-aid convoy reaches stripped of vital medical supplies

A WHO official said the govt removed most medical material from UN vehicles including surgical kits, insulin and...

5 March 2018 2:22 PM

A member of the Syrian Civil Defense group running as he holds a child who was wounded during airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, Syria (Photo: AP)

White House accuses Russia of killing civilians in Syria

The WH said Russian military aircraft took off and carried out at least 20 daily bombing missions in Damascus and Ghouta...

5 March 2018 5:47 AM

A monitor said Tuesday three dozen pro-government fighters were killed in a district of Syrias capital as Islamic State jihadists took control of it in a surprise night time attack. (Representational Image)

Islamic State takes Damascus area, kills 36 Syria troops: monitor

IS took full control of Qadam, and 36 government troops and loyalist fighters have been killed.'

20 March 2018 12:45 PM

This photo released on May 9, 2018, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows flames rising after an attack in Kisweh, south of Damascus, Syria -- an area known to have numerous Syrian army military bases. (Photo: AP)

Iran targets Israeli bases across Syrian frontier

The attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, just past midnight, marked the first time Iranian forces have hit...

10 May 2018 5:52 AM

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (Photo: AFP)

If Syria implodes, India will be hit

India has the requisite resources and troops for these operations, in which our armed forces are enviably adept.

1 May 2018 12:24 AM

US President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters in New York (Photo: AP)

Trump targets Moscow as a diversionary tactic?

Russia had also not yet resurrected its role in West Asia to defend Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime.

28 March 2018 7:58 PM