Category: Counter-Terrorism

200 out of the 276 girls kidnapped by radical terrorist group Boko Haram are yet to be located and brought back to their families in Chibok. 3 years have passed since their ill-fated abduction took place..

An explosion has targeted a Pakistani government census team, killing at least five people in the eastern city of Lahore. The blast on Wednesday morning in Pakistan’s second largest city also..

A US-backed alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters has captured a strategic air base from ISIL in northern Syria….

On the 23rd of March 2017, Belgian police arrested a man who drove through the main shopping street of Antwerp, Belgium in his station wagon, forcing shoppers to jump out of the way. The street is pedestrianized. The police arrested the man..

Five people have died and at least 40 were injured after an attacker drove a car along a pavement in Westminster, stabbed a policeman and was shot dead by police in the grounds of Parliament. 

On the 21st of March 2017, The United States of America along with United Kingdom banned people carrying laptops and other electronic items on flights coming into the Middle East. The six countries affected by the UK’s ban on electronics are Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.

On 17th Feb 2017, a suicide attack in Pakistan’s Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Sufi shrine has killed at least 75 people (43 men, nine women and 20 children were among the victims). The bomber blew himself up among devotees in the shrine.

On 15 February 2017, a suicide bomber detonated a pick-up truck packed with explosives in northern Baghdad, killing at least nine people. Thirty others were wounded in the powerful blast in the Habibiya area, near Sadr City, a Shia majority neighbourhood in the Iraqi capital.

Four people including a girl of 16 have been arrested with bomb-making materials by anti-terrorist police in the southern French city of Montpellier. Home-made explosives like those used in the Paris attacks of November 2015 were found.

On 31st Jan 17, three persons, including a Congress worker, were killed and five injured in twin blasts at Maur, 30 km from Bathinda. At around 8.30pm Congress candidate Harminder Singh Jassi had taken out a car procession when blasts took place. The three people who died last night have been identified as Harpal Singh,…