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  • A US soldier patrols in the Khost province of Afghanistan. Photo Courtesy: AP
    Police backed by the US-led coalition forces killed 15 Taliban militants during a mop-up operation on Sunday in the eastern Afghan province of Khost and arrested two.
  • McCain and Barack Obama
    Notwithstanding their acrimonious campaign against each other, rival White House hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain will together pay homage to victims of the 9/11 terror attacks during a ceremony in New York on Thursday.
  • Mumbai blast site in 1993.
    The special TADA court on Sunday remanded two persons deported from Nepal, to judicial custody till Monday in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
  • Jammu & Kashmir
    An army jawan was killed and two others injured in a fierce gunbattle in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.
  • Map of Pakistan. Photo Courtesy: Flickr
    Up to 10 people were feared killed and several more injured on Saturday in a powerful explosion on a police check-post on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.
  • Mumbai blast site in 1993.
    Two Indian aides of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, suspected of having a role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts that killed 257 people, were arrested by the Nepal police in Kathmandu.
  • Indian Ambassador to United Nations Nirupam Sen.
    Describing terrorism as a "pervasive and insidious" threat to global security, India has sought a concerted action to root out its networks and deter regimes from encouraging and harbouring armed extremists.
  • Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in Srinagar. Photo Courtesy: AP
    Israel's national security council counter-terrorism bureau has issued a warning to its nationals to avoid travelling to Jammu and Kashmir and suggesting that those already there should leave at once.
  • Map of Pakistan. Photo Courtesy: Flickr
    As Pakistani Taliban claimed on Tuesday that they were holding two Chinese telecoms engineers as prisoners and would soon issue a list of demands, Beijing has urged Pakistan to rescue the hostages and ensure their security.
  • Pakistani Army soldiers check a vehicle in northern Pakistan. Photo Courtesy: AP.
    At least eight people were killed on Tuesday, as warring Sunni and Shiite Muslims defied a self-declared ceasefire in Pakistan's Khurram tribal district, officials said.
  • Iraqi boys walk past a burned car in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad. Photo:AP
    At least seven people were killed and seven wounded on Tuesday in a car bomb explosion at a security checkpost in Iraq's Nineveh provincial capital of Mosul, the police said.
  • A British soldier stands guard during the construction of an Iraqi army outpost. Photo Courtesy: AFP
    Britain's elite force SAS is waging a "secret war" in Iraq that has led to more than 3,500 insurgents being "taken off the streets of Baghdad," a news report has said.
  • Sri Lankan Army soldiers patrol the 'de facto' frontline at Nager Kovil in the Jaffna Peninsula. Photo Courtesy: AFP
    At least 81 Tamil Tigers and two army personnel were killed in fierce fighting in Sri Lanka's restive northern areas as troops gained control of several LTTE outposts in the rebel stronghold of Mullaittivu.
  • Map of Pakistan. Photo Courtesy: Flickr
    Upto 95 people were reportedly killed and 200 injured in a single day of clashes between rival tribes in Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province, which is already engulfed by steep rise in militancy violence.
  • BSF jawan at Indo-Pak border. Photo Courtesy: Flickr
    The Border Security Force has ordered a Court of Inquiry into the infiltration of three militants along the Indo-Pak border in Khour belt  in Jammu on August 26.
  • Map of Sri Lanka
    The Tamil Tigers said on Sunday that military shelling in the rebel-held Kilinochchi district in Sri Lanka had killed five Tamil civilians, including two children, displaced by fighting.
  • Sri Lankan police investigate at the site of an explosion in Colombo. Photo Courtesy: AP
    The military said on Saturday a bomb blast blamed on separatist Tamil Tigers has wounded 45 people in Sri Lanka's capital.
  • A Pakistan army solder stands next to the rubble of shops in Spinkai, Pakistan. Photo Courtesy: AP
    At least 22 pro-Taliban militants have been killed as jet planes pounded insurgents' position, while four people died when troops foiled a car suicide bombing in northwest Pakistan, security officials said.
  • India, Pakistan flags.
    President George W Bush has been kept fully briefed about the situation in Pakistan and rise in violence across the border with India since the exit former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf.
  • Relatives carry Nishant (L) and Vipin after the two boys rescued on the outskirts of Jammu on early Thursday. Photo Courtesy: AP
    The children - Sheetal (9), Vipin (2), Ashad (7) and Kajal (4) - said they were scared and were very happy that they have been rescued.
  • Soldiers take positions at the scene of a gun battle in Jammu, August 27, 2008. Photo Courtesy: AP
    Army's Special Forces shot dead the last of the three suspected LeT militants early Thursday and freed seven hostages including four children they seized in a house near Jammu.
  • India, Pakistan flags.
    India on Wednesday lodged a strong protest with Pakistan for pushing in militants in Jammu and Kashmir in the cover of firing from across the border.
  • Indian Army soldiers on the streets of Jammu. Photo Courtesy: AP
    Security forces rescued three children and a woman, who were held hostage during a gunbattle in which three civilians, an army officer and a guerrilla were killed Wednesday in this winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
  • Iraqi security forces guard the street in Shula neighborhood in northwest Baghdad. Photo Courtesy: AP
    A suicide bomber on Tuesday rushed into a crowd of police recruits in central Iraq and detonated his explosives-laden vest, killing at least 25 people and wounding 40, the local police chief said.
  • Map of Jammu and Kashmir
    "A massive operation is on to track down the militants as BSF, army and police have cordoned off the entire belt and tracker dogs have been pressed into operation," BSF Deputy Inspector General S Sagwan said.
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