Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said the body of Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, who was killed in a US drone strike in Balochistan earlier this month, had been handed over to his heirs after completion of DNA tests. Mullah Mansour was killed on May 21 in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province after…
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Militants from the IS have launched a dawn counter-attack as Iraqi government troops push into the city of Falluja. A day after troops advanced through the southern suburb of Nuaimiya, scores of IS fighters attacked them, army officers told news agencies. The army defeated the attackers but suffered casualties, the sources said. Reports speak of…
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The Taliban killed at least 16 people Tuesday and kidnapped dozens of others after pulling them off buses in northern Afghanistan, officials said, the latest assault since the insurgents named a new leader last week. The Taliban have so far not commented on the incident in Aliabad district in the volatile province of Kunduz, where…
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