This is Beirut, 21/12 10:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a brazen overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan on Saturday, which intelligence officials said resulted in the deaths of 16 soldiers and the critical wounding of five others. The assault began after midnight and lasted about two hours, during which around 30 militants ...
This is Beirut, 24/11 12:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Pakistan Shiites Kurram Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Three days of bitter sectarian gunfights in northwestern Pakistan have killed at least 82 people and wounded 156 more, a local official said Sunday. Pakistan is a Sunni-majority country, but Kurram district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province -- near the border with Afghanistan -- has a large Shiite population, and the communities have clashed for ...
This is Beirut, 21/11 14:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gunmen in northeastern Pakistan killed at least 38 people in two attacks on Thursday, officials said, adding that the incidents were linked to sectarian violence that has claimed dozens of lives in recent months. "Two separate convoys of Shiite people... were targeted by the terrorists in the Kurram district," Javed ullah Mehsud a senior ...
This is Beirut, 10/11 20:44 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran Pakistan Sistan-Baluchistan Jihadists
At least five members of Iran's security forces were killed Sunday in a "terror attack" in the restive southeast, where authorities have been conducting operations against rebels, local media reported. The Fars news agency reported that in a "terror attack in Saravan county, in the south of the Sistan-Baluchistan province, five ...
This is Beirut, 09/11 12:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A bombing claimed by Pakistani separatists killed 26 people, including 14 soldiers, at a railway station in the southwestern Balochistan province, a hospital spokesman said on Saturday. The blast hit as passengers waited on a platform at the main railway station in the provincial capital, Quetta. "Fourteen members of the Army and 12 civilians ...
This is Beirut, 27/10 15:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia Pakistan Lebanon Aid
In a continuing show of international support, Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport received Saudi and Pakistani relief planes loaded with essential humanitarian supplies on Sunday. The fourteenth Saudi aid plane carried food, shelter, and medical supplies operated by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, thus reinforcing ...
This is Beirut, 26/10 15:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Pakistan Terrorist Attack Suicide Bombing Afghanistan
A suicide bomber detonated at a checkpoint in western Pakistan on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding five more, officials said. The bomber set off the blast from the back of a motorcycle rickshaw near the town of Mir Ali in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a local police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity. Four police officers were ...
This is Beirut, 26/10 15:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
iran sistan-baluchistan pakistan afghanistan
At least ten people were killed on Saturday in southeastern Iran in a “terrorist attack” in a tense area of Sistan-Baluchistan, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, local media reported. “Ten people were killed in a terrorist attack on police cars in Taftan county,” local news agencies Mehr and Tasnim reported, without specifying the ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-15 11:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Afghanistan Iran Jaish al-Adl jihadisme Pakistan
At least 11 Iranian police officers were killed in an attack claimed by the Sunni Muslim jihadist Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) group, according to a brief statement shared on its Telegram channel. Jaish al-Adl was formed in 2012 and is blacklisted by Iran as a "terrorist" group. The attack on a police station occurred around midnight in the ...