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Trans-Himalayan forum reflects balancing act Beijing must undertake with troubled neighbour if regional security is to be improved.
Afghanistan’s humanitarian and security crisis will only deepen, with ever-greater obligations for the outside world, unless the country’s leaders are given the means to govern effectively.
Herbert Fritz travelled to Afghanistan last year and published an article titled ‘Vacations with the Taliban’. He was arrested shortly afterwards on suspicion of espionage.
The British government took away Shamima Begum’s citizenship on national security grounds in 2019, shortly after she was found in a detention camp in Syria.
The US and Philippine governments both alleged Myrna Mabanza was involved in two 2016 fund transfers – one of up to US$107,000 – to the then leader of ISIS-Philippines.
Khadafi Mimbesa, ‘mastermind’ of the December 3 attack in Marawi, the country’s largest Muslim city, was hurt in a shoot-out between army soldiers and militants last month and died days later.
Some politicians have called for the polls to be postponed, but the Election Commission of Pakistan says Thursday’s vote will go on.
But US national security adviser Jake Sullivan declined to be drawn on whether the US might attack sites inside Iran, something the US military has been very careful to avoid.
New UN report says the threat from al-Qaeda, Islamic State and their affiliates remains high in key conflict zones – and that threat levels have risen in some regions including Europe.
Army forces clashed with about 15 militants in a series of shoot-outs, with the dead including suspects in the December 3 bombing that killed four Catholic worshippers and wounded dozens.
Announcement comes as US forces have struck Iran-backed groups in Iraq and Syria in response to attacks on bases hosting US troops in both countries.
The US strikes against Iranian proxies come as the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza risks spilling over into a wider conflict.
China has key economic interests in Pakistan and may ‘look dimly on attacks’ in the Balochistan province by Iran.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said normalising ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia is a key element of ending the war with Hamas and a game-changer for the entire Middle East.
The strikes hit targets such as caves and bunkers, and ‘many’ militants were ‘neutralised’, Turkey’s defence ministry says.
The terror group claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack in Iran that killed almost 100 people and threatened to further inflame tensions in the Middle East.
At least four militia fighters were killed, and six others wounded, in a drone strike on an Iran-backed militia headquarters in eastern Baghdad.
The strikes were in response to attacks against US troops in Iraq and Syria by the militias, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says.
Four people were killed and 50 wounded in the bombing in Marawi in the southern Philippines last Sunday.
Police are looking into at least two suspects they believe were behind the blast that killed at least four people during a service at a university gymnasium in Marawi, which Islamic State militants claimed.
‘The soldiers of the caliphate detonated an explosive device on a large gathering of Christians ... in the city of Marawi,’ Islamic State said in a statement on its Telegram channels.
Driving non-combatants into the arms of the enemy will turn a ‘tactical victory’ into ‘strategic defeat’, Pentagon head Lloyd Austin said, drawing on his experience battling Isis.
It was the first time the United States has announced a strike on Iranian proxy forces in Iraq, in response to a spike in attacks on American personnel in the region.
Christopher Wray says since the start of the conflict in Gaza, multiple foreign terrorist organisations have called for attacks against Americans and the West.
Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gaza, advancing in tanks and other armoured vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants.
Sweden said it had decided to deport Iraqi Salwan Momika, who burned copies of the Muslim holy book, but that the order would not be carried out because he would be at risk of torture in Iraq.
The prospect of Israeli forces launching an assault into Gaza’s dense urban neighbourhoods brings back searing memories of the deadly battles the US-led coalition fought against Islamic State.
The British government took away Shamima Begum’s citizenship on national security grounds in 2019, shortly after she was found in a detention camp in Syria.
Police opened fire on the suspect after he was cornered following an overnight manhunt in north central Brussels. He later died of his wounds.