Thirty-four terrorists of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri group were killed during the last 24 hours in Betshiragham directorate north of Afghanistan as the national military launched a wide-scale campaign to uproot terrorism in the country. Afghan army said in a statement issued on ...
India will expel a Pakistani visa official for “espionage activities”, the foreign ministry said Thursday, with tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors already running high. India’s foreign secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar summoned Pakistan’s high commissioner to inform him of the decision to expel the consular official, who was briefly detained on Wednesday. ...