International

03 March, 2020 CAIRO: An Egyptian court has sentenced 37 people to death, including one the country’s most high-profile fighters, on terrorism-related charges. The Cairo Criminal Court said on Monday the defendants were charged with belonging to a local affiliate of the ISIL (ISIS) armed group spearheading a rebellion in …

02 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON/ KABUL: At least three people have been killed and 11 wounded in an explosion in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province. “A motorcycle rigged with a bomb exploded during a football match,” said Sayed Ahmad Babazai, a police chief in the area. …

02 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON/ MELBOURNE: After Christianism, Socialism, Communism and Capitalism, the battle between different religions and sects especially fast rising of ‘White Terrorism’ and different criminal international groups and enemies of Muslims globally particularly anti-Islamism pressure crowd which have not only already been spread worldwide …

02 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ TEHRAN/ KABUL/ WASHINGTON: Iran voiced its opposition on Sunday to an Afghanistan accord between the United States and the Taliban, saying Americans had no right to decide on the country’s future. “The United States has no legal right to sign a …

01 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KABUL/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says his government has not pledged to free Taliban prisoners, as stated in a deal reached by the US and the militants. Under the landmark agreement signed on Saturday in Qatar, 5,000 Taliban would be …

29 February, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies DOHA/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ WASHINGTON: In continuation of another worst defeat of Americans by Taliban, the United States of America (USA) and Taliban have signed an “agreement for bringing peace” to Afghanistan after more than 18 years of conflict. The US and Nato …

29 February, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: The New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, has lashed Scott Morrison for “testing” the friendship between the two nations, accusing Australia of deporting “your people and your problems” using “unfair” policies. Ardern took her strongest stance yet opposing Australia’s policy of …

28 February, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies LONDON/ NEW YORK/ PARIS: Panic over the spread of coronavirus has stock markets around the world on Friday, paving way for the worst week since the 2008 financial crisis and equities on course for the largest weekly drop. International oil prices tanked …

28 February, 2020 DAMASCUS/ IDLIB/ ISTANBUL: At least 33 Turkish soldiers have been killed in an air raid by Syrian government forces in the northwestern Idlib province, the governor in the southeastern province of Hatay said early on Friday, raising an earlier death toll, while also threatening an escalation of …

Iranian VP infected, Israel confirms 3rd case 27 February, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies NEW YORK/ BEIJING/ RIYADH: The coronavirus is spreading more quickly in Europe, the Middle East and other parts of the world than in China where the virus first emerged in the central city of Wuhan …