DHAKA: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait agreed to comply with a United Nations resolution aimed at stopping financing for Islamist militant groups in Syria and Iraq after four of their nationals were named among a group blacklisted by the international body.The UN Security Council unanimously

DHAKA: Israel warned Sunday it would not countenance any long-term truce deal that did not answer its security needs as Gaza ceasefire talks were set to resume in Cairo.Egyptian-brokered indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are taking place during a five-day lull

DHAKA: Kurdish sources say their forces ‘are advancing’ in an offensive to retake Mosul dam from the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.A joint operation involving both Kurdish forces and US air strikes has been under way since 05:00 local time (03:00 GMT), the sources said,

DHAKA: Israel is developing a new system that will detect and destruct tunnels as they are dug by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Britain’s weekly The Sunday Times reported, says Al Arabiya. The new system, which was developed by a consortium led by Elbit Systems, Israel’s

DHAKA: Australia will offer to resettle some 4,400 people fleeing violence in Iraq and Syria, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said Sunday, adding the places had been freed up by success in stopping asylum-seeker boats. Boat arrivals have all but dried up since Australia said it would

DHAKA: Fifteen foreign tourists were missing on Sunday after a boat travelling between islands in eastern Indonesia sank. An Indonesian search-and-rescue official said, reports The Straits Times. Suryaman, based on the island of Lombok, told media that 10 people had been rescued after

DHAKA: Taliban and Al Qaeda militants are hiding not only in tribal areas but also in Pakistani cities. Former CIA director Michael Hayden, says, dawn.com publishes this report on Sunday. Former US Senator Richard Lugar, who co-authored the $7.5 billion Kerry-Lugar assistance package

DHAKA: Philippine president Benigno Aquino will on Monday receive a completed draft Bill to create a Muslim autonomous area, aimed at ending decades of fighting that has claimed thousands of lives. His spokesman said, reports The Straits Times. Receiving the draft Bill would allow

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists on Sunday shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet over the war-torn east of the country.Confirming the matter, a military spokesman, Leonid Matyukhin told media that in the course of an assignment to eliminate a large group of terrorists, a MiG-29 was shot down

DHAKA: Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan, who is leading one of two large anti-government demonstrations in the capital, has called on followers to show their strength on Sunday as he tries to force the government to resign. Imran, a former international cricket star whose

DHAKA: Islamic State militants could grow strong enough to target people on the streets of Britain unless action is taken. UK premier David Cameron has warned, reports the BBC. The PM, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, said a ‘humanitarian response’ to IS was not enough and a ‘firm

DHAKA: At least 84 persons were killed and 139 have gone missing in floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall in the last three days in various districts across the country.  Hundreds of families have been rendered homeless, thehimalayantimes.com reports on Sunday.  As

DHAKA: The UN secretary-general says two United Nations peacekeepers have been killed and seven wounded in a suicide attack in Mali.Ban Ki-moon said he was saddened by the deaths and condemned the attack against UN personnel in a statement issued Saturday.The UN mission in Mali had

DHAKA: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were poised to resume indirect talks Sunday with Egyptian mediators on reaching a more permanent ceasefire before the current truce expires. The Egyptian government persuaded both sides late Wednesday to adhere to a new five-day ceasefire,

DHAKA: Hamas rejected on Saturday as insufficient offers made in Cairo to Palestinian negotiators seeking to end Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, and raised the possibility of renewed fighting when the current truce expires.Israel said it had also not yet accepted any proposals

DHAKA: Chadian troops have rescued 85 Nigerians kidnapped last week by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram.  A Nigerian security official told media that they had intercepted a convoy of buses transporting gunmen and the villagers in a routine security check, reports BBC. Neither the

DHAKA: The governor of the US state of Missouri has declared a state of emergency in the St Louis suburb where a black teenager was shot dead by police last week.Jay Nixon also said a curfew would run from midnight local time (05:00 GMT) until 05:00 (10:00 GMT) in Ferguson.The move

DHAKA: The Islamic State group has executed 700 members of a tribe it has been battling in eastern Syria during the past two weeks, the majority of them civilians. The killing spree happened in several villages inhabited by the al-Sheitat tribe in Deir Ezzor province, where the tribe

DHAKA: As a temporary lull in fighting seems to be holding, a political battle rages on in Cairo, as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators try to hash out details that could cement a long-term truce.Hamas’ political leader Khaled Mashaal took to the airwaves on Saturday afternoon to

DHAKA: Current TV founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt filed a lawsuit on Friday against Al Jazeera, claiming the Qatar-based broadcaster owes them millions of dollars after it bought Current TV.Al Jazeera acquired Current TV for an estimated $500 million in 2013. Gore and Hyatt are suing