DHAKA: Russia's air force flew 33 sorties over Syria in the last 24 hours, striking 32 Islamic State targets, the Russian Defence Ministry says.The bombing campaign in Syria is forcing the jihadists to flee, reports the rt.com on Thursday.The 9K33 Osa short-range air defense launcher was

DHAKA: Iraqi forces are battling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group on separate fronts, ramping up operations to retake Baiji and Ramadi, two of the conflict's worst flashpoints.The Baiji area has seen almost uninterrupted fighting since ISIL swept across Iraq last

DHAKA: EU states have approved an action plan for Turkey that it is hoped will ease the flow of migrants to Europe.Nearly 600,000 migrants have reached the EU by sea so far this year, many of them travelling from Turkey to Greece before seeking to head north, reports BBC.Turkey made a

DHAKA: Iran has given the UN nuclear watchdog what it needs to assess whether Tehran’s past activities had anything to do with nuclear weapons.The agency said on Thursday, reports The Jerusalem Post.It is being considered as a further step towards implementing an agreement between

DHAKA: The United States is to extend its military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2016.Administration officials say, reports the BBC.President Barack Obama will outline the plans later. They are expected to include keeping 5,500 troops in the country when he leaves office in

DHAKA: One of India's greatest mysteries is likely to be resolved soon as the Centre has agreed to make public all files related to freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. The decision came after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the family members and well-wishers of Netaji at

DHAKA: Myanmar has signed a ceasefire with eight ethnic minority rebel groups in a step towards ending decades of civil war.The move was weakened by the refusal of several other armed groups to join the deal, despite more than two years of negotiations.The truce was a key goal of

DHAKA: Israeli forces have shot and killed two more Palestinians, following fourteen days of violence that have already claimed at least 30 Palestinian lives.Israeli police opened fire on one young Palestinian on Wednesday afternoon at the entrance of the Damascus gate in Jerusalem.The

DHAKA: The Palestinians want the UN to consider deploying a protection force in occupied East Jerusalem to help quell violence.The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations has said.Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday that the proposal would be included in a draft resolution aimed at defusing

DHAKA: Front-runner Hillary Clinton was widely seen as a runaway winner in the first Democratic Presidential debate, delivering a commanding performance in which her experience of big stage and high office shone through. Clinton reduced her four male opponents for the Democratic

DHAKA: Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian man following fourteen days of violence that has already seen at least 30 other Palestinians killed.Police opened fire on the young Palestinian on Wednesday at the entrance of the Damascus gate in Jerusalem, reports Al

DHAKA: Taliban insurgents overran two checkpoints in southern Helmand province and killed 29 border police officers.A provincial official said, reports TDS.Bashir Ahmad Shakir, a provincial council member in Helmand province, said on Wednesday that the police officers were killed after a

DHAKA: Anakara’s police, intelligence and security chiefs have been suspended in the wake of bombings that left 97 people dead in Turkey’s capital.The interior ministry said the move would enable a ‘robust’ investigation.The attack, the worst in Turkey’s modern history,

DHAKA: Turkey has summoned ambassadors from both Russia and the United States regarding ties with Kurdish forces in Syria.Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said, reacting to any probable arms support to groups which have ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK),

DHAKA: A missile test announced by Iran over the weekend was an apparent violation of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution and Washington will raise it at the UN.The US State Department said on October 13, Hurriyeet Daily News publishes this report on October 14.Iran said

DHAKA: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said she will investigate Russian and Georgian forces over possible war crimes.The investigation relates to a five-day conflict in 2008 centered on South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia.Fatou Bensouda said she had

DHAKA: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s Democratic rivals declined to make an issue of the email scandal that has dogged her campaign, helping sharpen her increasingly aggressive message that controversy is being driven by Republican partisanship.In Tuesday’s Las Vegas

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton on Tuesday went on offense in the first Democratic presidential debate on gun control, foreign policy and the Republican probe of her email server, while also punching back against a quartet of primary rivals seeking to knock her out of front-runner status.Hillary

DHAKA: Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crashed as a result of a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board says.The missile hit the front left of the plane causing other parts to break off, it said in a final report into the July 2014 disaster, which killed 298 people.The West and

DHAKA: The Afghan Taliban have claimed withdrawal from the center of the northern city of Kunduz after weeks of intense fighting against the Afghan troops back by US airstrikes in the city.Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, told Al Jazeera that they have withdrawn from the city