A week after the murder of the senior crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey, the Mumbai Police control room on Saturday received an anonymous phone call from Yemen with the caller saying Indian Mujahideen was behind the killing.
The CIA found that 15 Saudi agents flew on government planes to Istanbul and carried out the killing at the Saudi consulate, the report said, adding that it could complicate President Donald Trump's efforts to preserve US ties with one of the closest American allies in the region.
Even as terrorism emanating from Yemen is a major security concern for the United States, a top Obama administration official has said Al Qaeda core in Pakistan remains an 'extraordinarily formidable and dangerous terrorist organisation' targeting America.
Father Uzhunnalil, 58, who hails from Kerala, was abducted in March last year by the terror group.
Gujarat police on Monday arrested fourteen Somali pirates and three Yemeni nationals after they reached the Gujarat coast after being stranded for a month in the sea without food or water.
The Pakistan-Afghanistan border remains the epicentre of the Al Qaeda activities, United States President Barack Obama has said, ruling out sending troops to Yemen where the group has become a concern of late.
Al Qaeda militants are planning terror attacks from Yemen, prompting the country's Foreign Minister to appeal for global support to shore up its counter-terrorist forces. The plea by Abu Bakr al-Qirbi came after an Al Qaeda group based in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attempted suicide bombing of American transatlantic jetliner on Christmas Day.
The United States has designated Yemen-based Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula as a terrorist organisation and slapped sanctions on its leaders.
The Nigerian-origin bomber, who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, has warned US investigators that "there are more just like me who will strike soon." Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, had earlier claimed connection with Yemen-based Al Qaeda, which had supplied him with "new type explosives" to bring the trans-Atlantic flight down, and kill 289 people on board.
Pakistan found itself in the cross hairs of Middle East politics after Saudi Arabia included it in a 34-nation military coalition of Muslim countries to combat terrorism without getting Islamabad's consent, media reports said on Wednesday.
The company had assets in countries like Yemen, Peru, Oman, Myanmar, Columbia, East Timor, Kurdistan and Australia, but it exited almost all these blocks later as part of its portfolio rationalisation
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, has told FBI that close to 20 other young Muslim men were being prepared in Yemen to use the same technique to blow up airliners, CBS said in an exclusive investigative report.
The fire is believed to have occurred in the first floor of the hospital, which contains the maternity ward and intensive care unit.
Considering that Qatar is a trusted ally of Washington for decades, it is expected to be a steady influence on the Taliban leadership, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
According to IFJ's list for 2018, armed conflict and militant extremism accounted for most journalists' killings.
The new measures will include additional interviews of applicants' family members, and close scrutiny of potential ties to organised crime, said senior US officials.
The US move comes nearly year and half after Hamza was officially announced by al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri as an official member of the group.
Father Uzhunnalil, who hails from Kerala, was abducted in March by terror group Islamic State which attacked an old-age home run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in southern Yemeni city of Aden.
All 26 Indian crew on board the Indian ship were safe.
The first career diplomat to be appointed as the EAM, Jaishankar paid homage to his predecessor in his first tweet from his official account on May 31. A surprise addition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second Union Cabinet, the former foreign secretary certainly has big shoes to fill.
Friends what do you expect from presstitutes," he said in a tweet late night
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi asked all Muslims to take up arms and fight on behalf of the group.
The judge said the travel ban -- third version of the policy -- 'plainly discriminates on the basis of nationality'.
'.. if the cost is its own survival,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Nine Indian sailors, who were rescued from an ill-fated 'dhow' that sank nearly 90 nautical miles southeast of Al Mukalla coast in Yemen, have safely reached Oman, according to a report.
According to the global report, just 9.6 per cent of all children between 6 and 23 months of age are fed a minimum acceptable diet.
Scotland Yard's War Crimes Team, which is part of its Counter-Terrorism Command, has launched an investigation into the role of British mercenaries in fighting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels in Sri Lanka during the 1980s.
In the year since Modi cast the spotlight on Pakistan's human rights violations in Balochistan, India has not done much more than raise the issue at the UN a few times.
The reduction of tension on the Chinese border may have reduced the urgency of a Biden-Modi meeting, but the sooner Modi starts a bromance with Biden the better as he had done with Obama and Trump, suggests Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
"I am heartbroken that today President Trump is closing the door on children, mothers and fathers fleeing violence and war," the 19-year-old Pakistani education activist, who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, said in a Facebook post.
The United States wants India to wait for a final nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers before actively engaging with Tehran.
'The stage is set for increasing tensions in a highly volatile region as crucial as ever from a geopolitical standpoint,' predicts Claude Smadja.
The report will address what 'we think the overall impact was and who caused it, and who did it', Trump said.
Travelers from 6 countries will require a close family connections or business ties in order to enter the US.
'A 2018 murder may lead to shifts in the geopolitical order and impact at least one monarchy,' says Devangshu Datta.
The Kerala priest was released recently after more than one-and-a-half years in captivity in Yemen.
Skipper Amarjit Singh opened the scoring in the 74th minute, Abhishek Halder doubled the lead in the 80th and Edmund completed the tally with a strike in the 92nd as India dominated the proceedings for the better part of the game.
'The bigger challenge and dilemma for Pakistan would be if the US and Saudi Arabia go full throttle against Iran and enforce regime change in Tehran.' 'That would be bad news for Pakistan, especially with the current instability in Balochistan,' notes Brigadier Narender Kumar (retd).
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