Recently Pakistani Army boasted they had the Pakistan Taliban also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on the run and are in disarray. It was claimed that the punishing, the year-long offensive had ousted the Taliban insurgents from their most prized tribal sanctuary. The movement’s various factions were driven by violent rivalries, and attacks on Pakistan’s...
The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution endorsing an international road map for a Syrian peace process, a rare show of unity among major powers on a conflict that has claimed more than a quarter of a million lives. U.N. gave its blessing to a plan negotiated earlier in Vienna that calls for a...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to set up a joint team of both the countries as Moscow ramps up its military support for Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, who is losing ground to Islamist militants in country’s bloody civil war. Israel has set up a joint mechanism with the...