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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)

Don's policies making US a sadder, more dismal place

The sadness of America, the hopelessness of America, will in this way spread its wings and tentacles.

7 July 2017 12:52 AM IST

Turkish Airlines on Saturday said it would offer laptops to business-class travellers. (Photo: AFP/File)

Emirates and Turkish Airlines win exemption from US laptop ban

Qatar Airways, the last of the three major Gulf long-haul carriers on the list, declined to answer questions Wednesday...

5 July 2017 4:54 PM IST

Bangladeshi soldiers from Rapid Action Battalion or RAB stand guard where a suicide bomber detonated himself in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Photo: AP)

IS suicide bomber blows himself up near Dhaka airport

He blew the explosives tied to his waist at a police outpost at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

25 March 2017 9:41 AM IST

A man is treated by emergency services, as knives lie on the floor, with police looking on at the scene outside the Houses of Parliament London. (Photo: AP)

London's terror hit: Learn from the Brits

The known facts so far are that four people are dead and 29 injured, seven critically.

24 March 2017 1:55 AM IST

ISIS chief's death inevitable as pressure mounts on jihadists: US...

The US Secretary of State said that most of Abu Bakr Baghdadi's deputies as well as those behind the Brussels and Paris...

22 March 2017 8:37 PM IST

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What is ISIS up to? Be watchful...

A regional spread of Daesh satraps in West Asia, all networked into a virtual caliphate, is on the cards.

22 March 2017 1:27 AM IST

Syrian forces take up positions during fighting between Government forces and Islamic State group militants in the ancient city of Palmyra, near Homs, Syria. (Photo: AP)

Syrian army retakes town of Palmyra from ISIS

It was also the second blow for ISIS group in Syria in a week, after Turkish fighters seized the Syrian town of al-Bab...

3 March 2017 7:53 AM IST

A desert oasis surrounded by palm trees in central Syria, Palmyra is also a strategic crossroads linking the Syrian capital, Damascus, with the countrys east and neighbouring Iraq. (Photo: AP)A look at Palmyra, the archaeological gem that Islamic State fighters retook Sunday from Syrian troops in a major advance. (

ISIS pulls back from Syria's Palmyra: monitor

ISIS had withdrawn to residential neighbourhoods in the east of the city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

2 March 2017 3:22 PM IST

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Photo: AP)

In farewell speech, ISIS chief Baghdadi accepts defeat in Iraq

It is not clear if he is in the besieged city, where he declared his Caliphate in 2014 after the ISIS seized territory.

2 March 2017 9:49 AM IST

Women holding guns in Jawzjan province in northern Afghanistan. (Photo: Twitter)

In northern Afghanistan, bereaved women take up arms to fight ISIS

Nearly all of the women have lost a husband, son or brother to the Taliban or the newly active Islamic State in the...

15 Jan 2017 3:41 PM IST

Islamic State militants attack government positions in the city of Deir Ezzor, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Photo: Representational Image/AP)

30 dead in Islamic State attack in eastern Syria: monitor

At least 12 regime fighters and 20 IS militants were among the dead in the IS attack on government positions.

14 Jan 2017 6:54 PM IST

Civilians returning to Mosul. (Photo: AP)

30 Mosul residents killed in air raid targeting IS militants

The witnesses said it was not immediately clear if the attack was carried out by the US-led coalition or Iraqi forces.

14 Jan 2017 3:06 PM IST