DHAKA: An Al-Qaeda affiliate threatened a ‘Volcano of Revenge’ against Syrian government security and military targets in retaliation for a suspected poison attack near Damascus, the SITE Monitoring Group reported late on Tuesday.A branch of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant

DHAKA: Syrian president Bashar Assad’s regime forces bombed the Jobar neighbourhood in eastern Damascus with toxic chemicals in a mortar attack.Activists reported on Wednesday, according to The Jerusalem Post.The Syrian Support Group tweeted the use of poisonous gases on Free Syrian

DHAKA: A series of co-ordinated bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens more.Police and medical sources say, reports the BBC.The bombs targeted mainly Shia neighbourhoods during the rush hour.Several blasts in the northern district of

DHAKA: Russia told UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi that attacking Syria to punish the government for the alleged use of poison gas would destabilise the country and the region.Russian foreign ministry said on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.In a telephone call on Tuesday,

DHAKA: Authorities say a small plane crashed in western Germany, killing four adults and one child and injuring three other children.The dpa news agency reported on Wednesday that the single-engine Piper crashed on Tuesday evening in a field in the Dortmund area, reports The Straits

DHAKA: A series of bombings across Baghdad killed 16 people and wounded 85 on Wednesday.Police and medical sources said, reports The Jerusalem Post.The worst attack was in Kadhimiya, a district in the northwest of the capital, where several explosions killed five people and wounded nearly

DHAKA: UN chemical weapons inspectors have resumed their investigations in Syria, as speculation mounts over a possible Western strike on military targets.The team’s operation was suspended on Tuesday due to security concerns.On Monday the team’s convoy was shot at by unidentified

DHAKA: The US could hit Syria with three days of missile strikes, perhaps beginning Thursday, in an attack meant more to send a message to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad than to topple him or cripple his military.Senior US officials told NBC News on Tuesday, reports NBCNEWS.com.The

DHAKA: A series of bombings across Baghdad killed 33 people and wounded 136, police and medical sources said, extending the worst wave of violence in Iraq in at least five years.A police source told Al Jazeera that a series of car bombs and suicide bombers exploded in the capital city, as

DHAKA: The New York Times website has gone offline for the second time this month after what the company described as a "malicious external attack".On its Facebook page, the Times said it was working to fix the outage, which appears to have started at 15:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on

DHAKA: Seven people were killed and over 20 are feared trapped after two buildings collapsed in the Atladara area in the outskirts of Vadodara in Gujarat early Wednesday. The three-storey buildings came crashing down at around 4:30 am, when the occupants were sleeping. Some 13-14 families

DHAKA: Three people died and over 35 were feared trapped when two buildings collapsed in the Altadre area of Vadodara in Gujarat.The buildings were constructed by the Vadodara Urban Development Authority or VUDA and had three storeys.Rescue operations have begun and Chief Minister

DHAKA: Teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by a Taliban militant last October after campaigning for girls’ right to education, has won the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize.KidsRights announced today, reports NDTV.The Pakistani 16-year-old will receive

DHAKA: Iran plans to appoint a woman ambassador and a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry for the first time in the Islamic republic’s history.Iranian media reports said on Tuesday, according to The Times of India.Iran foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ‘wants to employ women for

DHAKA: India cannot afford to grow at less than 8 percent per year and needs more reforms to revive growth.India finance minister P Chidambaram told parliament on Tuesday during a debate on the state of the country’s economy, reports The Straits Times.Asia’s third-largest economy has

DHAKA: Taliban militants have killed 12 civilians in Afghanistan, including six men working on government projects, local officials have said.The bodies of the six contractors were found in western Herat province. They were shot after attempts to negotiate their release failed.Separately,

DHAKA: Cuba’s air force chief, Major General Pedro Mediondo, was killed in a car crash.The military announced Tuesday, reports The Voice of Russia.Mediondo (68) was at the wheel of the vehicle at the time of Sunday’s crash, which also left his wife severely injured and killed her

DHAKA: North Korea tried to export gas masks to Syria but they were seized in Turkey along with arms and ammunition.A Japanese daily said Tuesday, as the US threatened action over an alleged chemical weapons attack, reports Turkish daily Hurriyet.A Libyan-registered vessel, identified as

DHAKA: Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem said on Tuesday that his country will defend itself in case of any Western military strikes against it.‘We have two options: either to surrender, or to defend ourselves with the means at our disposal,’ Muallem said in a press conference in

DHAKA: Syrian opposition leaders have been told by Western allies to expect military strikes against president Bashar al-Assad’s regime within days.According to the report, the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) was told in clear terms that ‘action to deter further use of chemical