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THE leader of the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram – which the State Department so far has refused to designate as a foreign terrorist organization – boasted Monday that it was now strong enough to “comfortably confront” the United States.

ISRAELI jets devastated Syrian targets near Damascus on Sunday in a heavy overnight air raid that Western and Israeli officials called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah.

INDIAN-origin British author Salman Rushdie has been named in the 'most-wanted list of Islam critics to kill' released by al-Qaida in the new issue of its English online magazine.

CHRISTMAS Eve attacks by suspected Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria’s Borno state – already reeling from the slaughter of at least 10 Christians earlier this month – took the lives of six people at a Baptist church, as gunmen killed six others in Yobe state the same night.

WHILE Christian pilgrims and tourists are streaming here from all over the world to visit the birthplace of Jesus Christ and worship at the...

PAKISTAN'S Taliban movement threatened on Thursday to attack Indian targets to avenge the country's execution of Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of the militant squad responsible for a rampage through Mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008.

Joe BidenTHE United States has said that Taliban is not an enemy of America, a move seen as the latest effort of the Obama administration to send an olive branch to the terrorist outfit that ruled Afghanistan before 9/11.

"GOOD evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden."

US President Barack Obama on late Sunday night said Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept 11, 2001 terror attacks on US, was killed in an operation led by the United States.

DR. Paul Bhatti, elder brother of Shahbaz Bhatti, the slain federal minister for minority affairs in Pakistan, has expressed his ‘grave concern’ over the probe into the murder of his brother.