Pakistan has launched a massive crackdown on Baloch people after a series of daring attacks on its border forces that killed scores of troops. Media reports say that over a dozen people have been abducted by forces in just three days from across the province.

Pakistani army abducting people across Balochistan in crackdown to avenge attacks

Following military air strikes on hideouts of armed bandits this week, around 200 people have been killed in villages of the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara in deadly reprisal attacks, residents said on Saturday.

Around 200 killed in deadly attacks by armed bandits in Nigeria, say residents

Former President George W. Bush commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Saturday at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania, recalling a time of American unity and drawing a sharp contrast with the present-day divisiveness of the country’s politics.

Bush: Violent extremists at home and abroad ‘are children of the same foul spirit’

Although the air attacks from Yemen's Houthi rebels continue, the US has removed its most advanced missile defence system and Patriot batteries from Saudi Arabia in recent weeks.

Even as Houthi attacks continue, US removes missile defences in Saudi Arabia

As a supportive gesture to victims' families, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing the declassification of certain documents related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, on Friday.

9/11 attacks: US president moves to declassify documents as 20th anniversary approaches

The government data for England, Wales and Scotland has revealed that since 2015, hate crimes related to sexual orientation and gender identity have increased. In the year to March 2020 in England and Wales, sexual orientation hate crimes rose by 19 per cent to 15,835, and transgender identity hate crimes by 16 per cent to 2,540, averaging more than 50 reports each day.

Attacks on LGBTQ+ community across UK spark fear

At least 15 people, including a journalist and an opposition activist, were killed in Haiti in overnight violence suspected to be revenge attacks after the death of a police officer, officials said Wednesday.

15 killed in suspected revenge attacks in Haiti, says police

Expressing concern over the use of drones to target the Jammu Air Force Station, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday urged the research community in the country to develop "much more intelligent methods" to combat such issues.

Indian Vice President Venkaiah Naidu calls for 'intelligent' methods to counter drone attacks

French energy giant Total on Monday confirmed it is suspending work on a massive $20 billion gas project in northern Mozambique following the latest jihadist assault on a nearby town last month.

Total halts Mozambique gas project after attacks 

Four NGOs announced on Monday they have filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against members of the Syrian regime, including President Bashar al-Assad, over chemical weapons attacks in 2013 and 2017.

NGOs file case in Sweden over Syrian chemical attacks  

A New York City police officer was shot and wounded in a police station on Sunday morning about 12 hours after another officer was wounded while he sat in his patrol van in the same neighbourhood in what authorities described as an assassination attempt.

Two New York City police officers shot and wounded in separate attacks

Iran has foiled a major cyber attack on its infrastructure that was launched by a foreign government, the Iranian telecoms minister said on Wednesday, two months after reports of a US cyber operation against the country.

Foiled 'very big' foreign cyber attack: Iran

A staffer at Paris police headquarters who stabbed four colleagues to death seems to have adhered to "a radical vision of Islam", anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said Saturday.

Paris police attacker who stabbed four colleagues to death had 'radical vision of Islam': Anti-terror prosecutor

Saudi Arabia has said that strikes on its oil infrastructure were originated from "north" and were "unquestionably" sponsored by Iran. Riyadh said that the attack was a deliberate attempt to "disrupt" the global economy.

Attacks on oil facilities 'unquestionably' sponsored by Iran: Saudi Arabia

Oil shed some of its massive gains on Tuesday (September 17) as the United States flagged the possible release of crude reserves, but the threat of military action over the attacks on Saudi oil facilities kept prices elevated and stocks under pressure.

Oil falls more than 1% as market awaits response to Saudi oil attacks

Wion Dispatch: Hezbollah warns Israel against attacks. 2 Hezbollah members killed by Israel.

Wion Dispatch: Hezbollah warns Israel against attacks

Britain on Thursday relaxed its travel advice on Sri Lanka after earlier warning against "all but essential travel" following the April terror attacks that claimed more than 250 lives.

UK relaxes Sri Lanka travel advice issued after Easter attacks

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has asked the police chief and defence secretary to quit following the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels that killed 359 people, two sources close to the president said on Wednesday.

Sri Lankan President asks police chief, defence secretary to quit following attacks

Senior officials deliberately withheld intelligence about possible attacks on Sri Lanka, where a rash of suicide bombings on Easter Sunday killed at least 359 people, the leader of parliament said on Wednesday.

Top Sri Lankan officials deliberately withheld intelligence on attacks: Minister

A new bomb was found in downtown area of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, on Wednesday, after multiple blasts shook the country on Sunday. According to a local security guard of a shopping mall, who has witnessed the whole event, a bomb was found hid in a motorbike, and fortunately, no causalities were reported.

New bomb found in downtown Colombo; detonated later: Police

Terror groups supported by Pakistan will continue to conduct terrorist attacks in both India and Afghanistan, America's spymaster has said. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats also said Pakistan's "narrow approach to counterterrorism cooperation — using some groups as policy tools and confronting only the militant groups that directly threaten Pakistan — almost certainly will frustrate US counterterrorism efforts against the Taliban.

Pakistan-supported terror groups will continue to attack India: US spy chief

An Afghan official says attacks by the Taliban in the country's north have killed eight people four soldiers and four civilians. Military spokesman Hanif Rezaie says the troops died in Kunduz province when the Taliban attacked a military outpost in the district of Archi on Friday morning.

Taliban attacks kill eight in country's north: Afghan official

Safaa Boular, plotted the grenade and gun attack in her hometown after the authorities intervened to stop her from traveling to Syria to marry an ISIS terrorist she had met online

Teenage girl becomes youngest ISIS terrorist to be convicted in Britain

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