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WASHINGTON, Oct 6, (Agencies): The United States said on Monday it had imposed sanctions on four people affiliated with Islamic State and another militant group, …
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Muslim youth stopped from joining IS
Bangalore, India, Oct 6: The chief cleric of Bangalore’s main mosque says he has advised the heads of hundreds of mosques in India’s technology hub …
Read More »US deports fewest immigrants
The Obama administration deported fewer immigrants over the past 12 months than at any time since 2006, according to government figures obtained by The Associated …
Read More »Iraqi Shiite militants welcome Russian action against IS; US accused of failing to act decisively
BAGHDAD, Oct 5, (Agencies): Iraq’s most powerful Iranian-backed Shiite militias said on Monday they would welcome Russian air strikes on Islamic State in the country …
Read More »Beating parasites wins 3 Nobel awards; Medicine prize goes to Japanese, Chinese and Irish scientists
STOCKHOLM, Oct 5, (Agencies): Three scientists from the US, Japan and China won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering drugs to fight …
Read More »Murders underline rise of Islamist militants
DHAKA, Oct 5, (Agencies): The assassination of two foreigners in a week has highlighted the growing danger posed by Islamist militants in Bangladesh, with experts …
Read More »Kurdish PYD fighting DAESH ‘terror group’
BRUSSELS, Oct 5, (RTRS): Syrian Kurdish militants backed by the United States in the fight against Islamic State belong to a terrorist organisation and are …
Read More »Pressure mounts on US as MSF demands ‘probe’ into Kunduz; Afghan forces regain most of besieged city: residents
KABUL, Oct 5, (Agencies): Pressure mounted on Washington Monday to come clean over the apparent US airstrike on an Afghan hospital that killed 22, an …
Read More »Russia hits 10 IS targets in Syria
MOSCOW, Oct 4, (Agencies): Russian planes have flown 20 sorties in Syria and struck 10 Islamic State targets in the past 24 hours, the country’s …
Read More »No end in sight to migrant wave – EU, Turkey strike plan to stem flow of refugees
ZAGREB, Croatia, Oct 4, (Agencies): One month after the body of 3-yearold Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach – and a week after …
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