DHAKA: Unites States president Barack Obama on Saturday vowed to continue air strikes against Iraqi jihadists if needed to protect US diplomats and military advisors. Speaking in his weekly address, Obama said that he had authorised the strikes in Iraq to protect US personnel serving in

DHAKA: The Iraqi government delivered a planeload of ammunition to Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region, on Friday in an unprecedented act of military cooperation between Kurdish and Iraqi forces. A US official said, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on

DHAKA: Medical sources in Gaza said on Saturday that the IAF struck a motorcycle carrying two Gazans in a refugee camp in central Gaza.The two men were killed in the attack, reports The Jerusalem Post.Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ma’an wire service said three bodies were recovered

DHAKA: A court in Egypt has dissolved the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing.The government of president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has cracked down harshly on the Islamist movement and other opponents over the past year.Last July, Sisi, then head of

DHAKA: China’s foreign minister on Saturday slammed the Philippines’ proposed three-stage resolution to territorial disputes in the South China Sea, saying Manila had already jumped to the third stage by seeking international arbitration.‘If the Philippines want to carry it out

Myanmar ministers have robustly defended their government’s track record ahead of a meeting Saturday between US secretary of state John Kerry and Myanmar president Thein Sein. Kerry is in Naypyitaw for meetings today and tomorrow with Asean foreign ministers and counterparts from Asean

DHAKA: Around 14 Maoists belonging to Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a breakaway faction of the CPI Maoists, were killed in a fierce gunbattle with the CPI Maoists rebels in Kauriya village in Palamu district on Saturday. Jharkhand police said, reports The Times of India. Police have

DHAKA: A community panchayat has banned girls from wearing jeans and keeping mobile phones claiming that they were having a ‘bad’ effect on them and were responsible for eve-teasing incidents. The panchayat of Gujjar community was held at Jadwad village on Friday,

DHAKA: India’s former union minister Jaswant Singh slipped into coma on Friday after sustaining severe head injuries and remained on life support system in a ‘highly critical state’. Doctors attending on him at the Army Research and Referral (R&R) hospital in New Delhi said, The

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama said he was willing to consider broader use of military strikes in Iraq to beat back Islamist militants, but Iraqi political leaders must first figure out a way to work with each other. The New York Times reported, says The Straits Times on Saturday. In

DHAKA: Egypt has called for an immediate return to ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and said progress has been made in the negotiations involving Palestinian factions and Israel. Speaking from Gaza after several Israeli air strikes hit the enclave on Saturday morning, Al Jazeera's Andrew

DHAKA: US fighter jets and drones repeatedly bombed Sunni Islamic extremists in northern Iraq on Friday, targeting what officials described as ISIS artillery units and convoys advancing on the Kurdish regional capital of Irbil. The airstrikes ramped up America's involvement in Iraq where

DHAKA: A girl thought to have died in the Indian Ocean tsunami has been reunited with her family after being found alive nearly a decade later, her parents said Friday.  Raudhatul Jannah was just four when she was swept away as the disaster struck Indonesia on Boxing Day in 2004. After

DHAKA: The US and UN have condemned the resumption of attacks between Gaza and Israel on Friday, urging both sides to cease hostilities. Israel renewed strikes on Gaza soon after a three-day truce expired, saying it was in response to rocket fire by Hamas, which controls Gaza. White

DHAKA: The US says it has launched an air strike against militants from the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq, reports BBC. The Pentagon said American aircraft attacked artillery that was being used against Kurdish forces defending the northern city of Irbil. President Barack Obama

DHAKA: The next supermoon is coming up on Sunday. It’ll be the closest, brightest supermoon of this year. It also presents the moon’s closest encounter with Earth for all of 2014.Full moon falls on  the day at 18:09 UTC (1:09 p.m. CDT in the U.S.). The moon will not be so close

DHAKA: Israel has hit the Gaza Strip with missiles and artillery for the first time in three days, while Palestinian fighters launched a barrage of rockets at Israel, just hours after a ceasefire between the two sides expired.At least three air strikes have hit different parts of Gaza

DHAKA: President Barack Obama was about to address the nation on Iraq Thursday night when the briefing was a delayed because of a security breach on the North Lawn of the White House. But this wasn't your normal breach, this was one of a pint-sized variety. A toddler forced the

DHAKA: A British investigator and his wife are being tried in China for illegally trafficking personal data. Peter Humphrey and his American wife Yu Yingzeng were arrested in August 2013. They are accused of illegally obtaining Chinese citizens' personal information and selling it to

DHAKA: A prominent leader of pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine resigned his post Thursday as fighting flared there, with militants reportedly downing a Ukrainian military plane. Alexander Borodai, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, told reporters he was