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RAWALPINDI: The deadly blast in Peshawar, which killed at least 100 people and injured more than 200, will not shake the resolve of the nation to root out terrorism, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir has said. Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir chairs the 255th Corps Commanders’ Conference at the General […]

Russia’s war in Ukraine is predominantly an artillery war, with 90 percent of casualties caused by cannon, howitzer or rocket fire. Victories and defeats – on both sides – are largely determined by the weight and accuracy of steel and explosives dropped on top of the enemy. British M270 rocket artillery system fires during training. Undated photo from Britain’s Defense Ministr By most […]

Eight people were killed and three injured in a mass shooting in KwaZakhele, Gqeberha, on Sunday evening. Eastern Cape police commissioner Lieutenant General Nomthetheleli Mene said the murders were “a blatant disregard for human life”. Police Minister Bheki Cele and national police commissioner General Fannie Masemola were expected to lead a delegation of crime experts […]

Seven people have been killed after air strikes destroyed a convoy of trucks carrying arms into eastern Syria from Iraq, a war monitor said Monday. The seven were “truck drivers and their assistants, all of them non-Syrians“, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that they were “killed as a result of unidentified aircraft […]

PESHAWAR:At least 32 people were martyred and more than 150 were injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines during afternoon prayers on Monday, security and health officials said. Security officials, confirming that it was a suicide attack, said the bomber was standing in the front row at the time […]

Key developments on Jan. 29:  Wagner Group claims to have captured Blahodatne; Ukraine denies Russian progress near Bakhmut Ukrainian intelligence: Prigozhin doesn’t command Wagner Group’s military operations At least 3 killed, 6 wounded in Russian shelling of Kherson Ukrainian paratrooper Andriy (L), 47, and comrades wait for transport along the road in Chasiv Yar in […]

The sky over Somalia will become active after a 30-year hiatus following ICAO’s reclassification of airspace over the country and the surrounding region to Class A. Air traffic control services went live over Somalia at one minute past midnight on the dawn of January 26.  According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which said […]

1. Ukraine army says Blahodatne still standing, Wagner claims otherwise Ukraine’s military said on Sunday its forces repelled an attack in the area of Blahodatne in the eastern part of the Donetsk region. In contrast, Russia’s Wagner private military group said it took control of the village. Ukrainian soldiers stand atop on APC before going […]

Mourners gathered at a Kyiv church on Sunday, Jan. 29, to honor Andrew Bagshaw, one of two British volunteers who died as they were evacuating civilians from fierce fighting in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. An Orthodox priest serves for Andrew Bagshaw, 47, British voluntary worker, who was killed in Donetsk region, during the memorial service in […]