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US President Donald Trump thanks the audience at the end of joints statements with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Photo: PTI)

Syrian rebel aid programme was 'dangerous and wasteful': Trump

US officials said last week that some of the anti-Assad forces could be absorbed into US military-supported groups...

25 July 2017 11:30 AM IST

Ahmed Joudeh who rose to fame as So you think you can dance? contestant hopes to start ballet school in Syria one day (Photo: Facebook)

Syrian Billy Elliot ballets his way to Paris to portray real picture'...

Ahmad Joudeh is set on erasing the horrifying image of Syrian youth the Islamic state group portrays through his dance.

21 July 2017 11:45 AM IST

Smoke from an explosion rises during fighting against Islamic State militants in the old city of Mosul, Iraq. (Photo: AP)

Iraq: Mosul looks to rise from the ashes after battle

But before this can happen, the chaotic mess caused by the conflict that devastated Mosul must be cleared away.

19 July 2017 1:07 PM IST

Turkey-backed opposition fighters advance in an armoured personnel carrier outside the northern Syrian town of al-Bab during a drive to retake control from the Islamic State group on February 9, 2017 (Photo: AFP)

Syria crisis: 66,000 displaced in recent fighting

Many of those people sought refuge in areas around Manbij, a town controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.

5 March 2017 1:46 PM IST

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo: AP)

Trump skeptical of Russian deal on Islamic State

In conversations with diplomats and other officials, Trump and his aides have ascribed the new thinking to Moscow's...

5 March 2017 12:46 PM IST

Police officers are securing evidence in front of the supermarket in Hamburg, Germany, where a man with a knife fatally stabbed one person and wounded four others as he fled, police said. He was then arrested. (Photo: AP)

1 dead, 6 injured in knife attack at supermarket in Hamburg

The attacker had been scheduled to be deported, but the process had been held up as he lacked identity papers, Scholz...

29 July 2017 10:31 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: AP)

Putin signs law allowing Russia to keep its air base in Syria

Russia has been providing an air cover for Syrian President Bashar Assad's offensive on the Islamic State group since...

28 July 2017 12:00 PM IST

Armed police work after an explosion at the Manchester Arena in England (Photo: AP)

Suspect named after youngsters killed in UK concert attack

British media said he was born in the northwestern English city and that his Libyan parents had fled the regime of...

24 May 2017 7:59 AM IST

Won't spare any effort to rescue Father in ISIS captivity: Swaraj

Father Tom, who hails from Kerala and works in a Church at Aden, in a video posted through web, appealed to the govt to...

27 Dec 2016 11:19 AM IST

Maharashtra-based ISIS suspect Mudbabir Shaik (Accused No. 3) also took part in the meeting, the chargesheet says. (Photo: AP)

Iraq: Remains of hundreds executed by ISIS found at Badush prison

ISIS reportedly killed up to 600 people after seizing the jail in 2014, and held hundreds of women from Iraq's Yazidi...

11 March 2017 8:01 PM IST

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi speaks during a press conference in Baghdad. (Photo: AFP)

US assures continued support for Iraq's war against ISIS

The statement also criticized "the hasty interventions" that followed the chemical attack, in an apparent reference to...

8 April 2017 5:20 PM IST

US drops Mother Of All Bombs at ISIS hideouts in Afghanistan (Photo: Twitter)

Afghanistan: At least 36 ISIS terrorists killed in US air strike

The huge bomb, delivered via an MC-130 transport plane, has a blast yield equivalent to 11 tons of TNT.

14 April 2017 11:38 AM IST