Prime Minister David Cameron has asked his spy chiefs to find Islamic State executioner 'Jihadi John' so that he could dispatch special forces to kill or capture the masked man who beheaded the latest British hostage.
Amid a raging dispute with Japan over islands in East China Sea, the Chinese army has scaled up its military exercises on all fronts including aerial drills by its air force in Tibet as well as by special forces.
It has been 11 years since the 9/11 terror strike, masterminded by Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, and its devastating aftermath changed the world. Laden was killed in a covert operation -- called Neptune Spear -- by United States Special Forces at his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011.
'Many said his visit was very risky. But mercifully, Air Force One has taken off from Delhi without Mr Trump stepping on anybody's toes,' notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
In two years, the modernisation of the Indian Army would be complete.
The couple's three daughters were injured in the firing.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's foreign relations adviser Gawher Rizvi dismissed the reports as "untrue" which claimed "US troops are staying in Bangladesh" installing a base.
Russia has described the killing of Andrey Karlov at an art exhibition in Ankara as a terror attack.
On his first day in office, Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag on Friday warned Pakistan that India's response to any beheading-like incident in future would be "more than adequate, intense and immediate".
A year after Osama bin Laden was killed by United States Special Forces in Pakistan, his terrorist outfit Al Qaeda has little support in the Muslim world, a poll has said.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said a number of people were killed and wounded in the blast that apparently targeted the offices of Afghanistan's main security agency.
A young Indian national, Mahesh Guda who came to the United States to pursue undergraduate studies, but half-way into his programme joined the US Army and was deployed in Afghanistan, has been awarded the US Army's Commendation Medal for his efforts in that war-ravaged country.
India's first integrated defence communication network was launched on Thursday enabling the army, air force, navy and the Special Forces Command to share situational awareness for a faster decision-making process.
Maruti Suzuki India on Tuesday reopened its Manesar plant amid heavy security, a month after a lockout was declared due to the violence in which one senior company official was killed and 100 others injured.
The exact number of terrorists is not known but as per initial calls received at PCR Jammu four to five terrorists were involved.
Two years before the Supreme Court clamped on tourism inside the core areas of tiger reserves, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had written a letter to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on the need to protect tigers in the state's forests.
A Pakistan court on Saturday remanded family members of Osama bin Laden, including his widows, to judicial custody for nine days. The Al Qaeda chief's youngest widow, Yemeni national Amal Abdulfattah, and her five children were among those remanded to judicial custody. Abdulfattah was with bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad where he was killed by United States special forces in May last year.
Another woman -- Nidhi Dubey -- was also commissioned as an officer.
A former Egyptian military officer turned Al Qaeda terrorist has been chosen to head Osama bin Laden's terror network temporarily until the slain leader's successor is officially named.
The compound in the garrison town of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killed by the United States special forces last year was demolished by Pakistani authorities on Saturday night amidst tight security, local residents said.
Captain Pradeep Shoury Arya is an Income-Tax officer whose mission against terrorists in J&K won him the Shaurya Chakra.
They coming together for a film about anti-poaching fighters in South Africa
A grenade-dropping drone, 3D fly-on-the-wall radar to see through a 20-m-thick wall and a 'dogo robot' armed with remote pistol are some of the latest weaponry provided to the National Security Guard to undertake lethal counter-terror operations with a punch of stealth.
Dr Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani surgeon who helped the US Central Intelligence Agency find Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for 'treason'.
In the wreath laying ceremony for the slain Colonel Santosh Mahadik in Srinagar, all the officers and the jawans of the 41 RR paid their tributes to him.
'If the strength of foreign terrorists can be brought to negligible levels there will be few takers for militancy.' 'That is why it is important to neutralise the terrorists at their launch pads,' advises Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
'The Pakistanis were lulled adequately to provide one of the fundamental prerequisites for successful execution of such an option: Surprise.' 'The other requisite: Deception in terms of selection of areas for launch/time of offensive action,' explains Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
The battalion will carry out surveillance and detection to protect the August 13-29 Olympics and September 17-28 Paralympics.
Bulldozers on Monday razed to the ground the three-storey house in Pakistan, where the most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden hid for more than five years, dogging the biggest manhunt in the world.
United States President Barack Obama on Monday defended his decision to order special forces to go inside Pakistan and kill al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden at his safe hideout a year ago.
Since Osama's mansion has been leveled to the ground and his family members will soon be deported, the saga of the Al Qaeda chief's Pakistan stint may come to an end, says Tahir Ali
In a letter dated March 12, Army Chief General V K Singh has warned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the country's security is at risk.
US Special Forces have moved into Syria's Raqqa area and taking the fight to the terror group.
Pakistani authorities have allowed family members of slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, including his widows and children, to leave the country, a media report said on Monday.
Contrary to Pakistani military's persistent assertion that it will not allow foreign troops to operate within the country, United States special forces were embedded with Pakistani troops for intelligence gathering and were also deployed on joint operations in their territory, according to secret US diplomatic cables.
Thousands of villagers from Maharashtra's Nashik district and surrounding areas on Monday bid a tearful adieu to soldier Shankar Chandrabhan Shinde, who was killed while fighting highly-trained militants in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.
At least 2 jihadist suspects have been killed in an anti-terror raid in Verviers in eastern Belgium, said officials.
'With the Balakot strike, India has now established a precedent for response to any new terrorist attack engineered by Pakistan.' 'This will stay irrespective of who wins the coming elections,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
The Scotland Yard on Tuesday said that it has found "no credible evidence" to support a claim that the British special forces were involved in the tragic death of Princess Diana in a 1997 Paris car crash.
Kirti Chakra was posthumously conferred on CRPF Commandant Pramod Kumar and Army Havildar Giris Gurung.
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