Pompeo didn’t say who was responsible for the assassination of Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Masri, who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list.
Although Pakistan's allegations are hardly new, India's police forces need to be a little more circumspect now about tagging 'Islamic State' onto every troublemaker.
So far, 11 accused have been arrested in connection with the case linked to plans of carrying out terrorist activities at different locations across India.
The agency said that the arrested men were radicalised by Pakistan-based al Qaeda terrorists on social media & motivated to launch attacks at multiple locations, including NCR.
Counter-terrorism and security experts need to be aware of inhibiting factors that protect the Indian society from the menace of transnational terrorism.
Senior officers in Karnataka and Kerala said UN report on significant number of IS members in the states based on police reports, but they would analyse it.
The exit of US troops might not open the gates of Kabul to Taliban, but without a viable peace process it would be the prelude to more years of bloodshed and stalemate.
Intelligence agencies are keen to interrogate Mohammad Zubair about the al Qaeda as well as his brother, who had travelled to Yemen in 2009 to meet key members of the terror group.
Mohammad Zubair, who has an engineering degree and US residentship, is not involved in any case in India. Investigators hope to extract information on al Qaeda's network in India from him.
The Sindh High Court had overturned the death sentence of terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh, while acquitting 3 others for killing WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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