DHAKA: American ground troops could be deployed against Islamic State and the Levante (ISIL) fighters in Iraq, according to the most senior US military officer.General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US military's joint chiefs of staff, said on Tuesday he might recommend having US

DHAKA: President Barack Obama has called the West Africa Ebola outbreak "a threat to global security" as he announced a larger US role in fighting the virus."The world is looking to the United States," Mr Obama said, but added the outbreak required a "global response".The measures

DHAKA: Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that Russia needed to increase its military presence on the Crimea peninsula due to the crisis in Ukraine. News agencies reported, says TDS. ‘The deployment of proper and self-sufficient forces in the direction of Crimea is

DHAKA: More than $1bn is needed to fight the West Africa Ebola outbreak, a tenfold increase in the past month. The UN’s Ebola co-ordinator has said, reports the BBC. David Nabarro made the announcement as the World Health Organization (WHO) described the health crisis as

DHAKA: Pro-Russian rebels released dozens of captive Ukrainian troops Sunday as part of a ceasefire deal, CNN reports.  Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in a Twitter post that 73 troops were released in Donetsk. But despite the ceasefire, violence continued to flare in the

DHAKA: Twelve Nigerian soldiers have been sentenced to death for mutiny and attempted murder after shots were fired at their commanding officer in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri in May, BBC reports.  The soldiers were angry after a convoy was ambushed on a road frequently targeted

DHAKA: At least three coalition soldiers died after a Taliban suicide car bomber rammed into a foreign military convoy in the Afghan capital Kabul. Nato says, reports the BBC. Another 16 civilians were injured, according to Afghan government sources. The blast took place in heavy

DHAKA: President Obama on Tuesday will announce an expansion of a $763 million US plan to help West Africa nations fight the spread of the Ebola virus, officials said. Adding to an existing project, the project calls for more doctors and health care providers, more portable hospitals

DHAKA: The US has carried out airstrikes in Iraq in support of troops who were being attacked by Islamic State (IS) fighters, reports BBC quoting the US military sources.It said that the attacks took place on Sunday and Monday near Mount Sinjar and south-west of Baghdad.They were the

DHAKA: About 500 migrants are feared dead after their ship was rammed by another boat near Malta last week, a migration body said.Two Palestinian survivors told the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that the boat had been intentionally sunk by traffickers, reports

DHAKA: About 1,300 troops from 15 countries, including the US and other Nato members, have begun a military exercise near Lviv in western Ukraine.The US says the drill had been planned before the current crisis in eastern Ukraine, where government forces have been battling pro-Russian

DHAKA: Thirty countries have pledged to help Iraq fight Islamic State (IS) militants ‘by all means necessary’.A joint statement by foreign ministers taking part in a major conference in Paris talks said support would include ‘appropriate military assistance’, reports the

DHAKA: The United States on Monday ruled out any possibility of future military coordination with Iran in a US-led coalition against fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).But it will be held out the prospect of separate talks with Teheran on Iraq, describing the

DHAKA: The naked bodies of two British tourists were found on a Thai beach on Monday, the police said, sparking a murder probe on the popular resort island of Koh Tao.The unidentified man and woman, both aged 24, were found stripped, with several wounds to their bodies close to a

DHAKA: United States president Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to approve his request for US$88 million to fund a major Ebola offensive in West Africa that would include greater military involvement.The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, reports The Straits Times.Obama is due to

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande says the global threat posed by Islamic State (IS) militants must meet a global response.He was opening an international summit of foreign ministers in Paris aimed at combating the jihadist group, reports the BBC.About 40 countries, including 10

DHAKA: Hillary Rodham Clinton has returned to Iowa for the first time since her 2008 presidential campaign, telling Democrats that voters face a choice between ‘the guardians of gridlock’ and those who push for shared opportunity and prosperity. Former president Bill Clinton joined

DHAKA: Four foreign nationals believed to be linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have been arrested by counter-terrorism police in central Sulawesi, in the first known instance of foreign radicals travelling to the archipelago to establish links with local groups in

DHAKA: A boat filled with up to 250 migrants heading for Europe has sunk on off the Libyan coast and many passengers have died, aljazeera reports.  Only 26 people have been rescued after the boat sunk near Tajoura, east of the capital Tripoli, said Libyan navy spokesman Ayub Qassem, 

DHAKA: Several Arab countries have offered to take part in air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, US officials say. But any action is subject to approval from the Iraqi government, they add. US Secretary of State John Kerry says he is "extremely encouraged" by