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MUMBAI: India's first regional unit for specialist anti-terror troops has opened in Mumbai, fulfilling a government pledge after criticisms of the  slow

BRUSSELS/BEIRUT: NATO on Tuesday rejected Moscow's explanation that its warplanes had violated alliance member Turkey's air space by mistake and said Russia was sending more ground troops to Syria and building up its naval presence.

WASHINGTON: NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, boosted by a big influx of U.S. troops, will step up operations in Helmand province and the city of Kandahar

KARACHI: Three Rangers soldiers were martyred and another critically wounded on Friday in an ambush on the paramilitary's troops in Karachi, Samaa reported. According to our correspondent, the attack took place in city's Baldia Town locality where a patrolling vehicle carrying Rangers came under fire by motorcycle-riding armed men.

earth ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Monday directed military for immediate relief and rescue efforts as a major earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter Scale caused widespread damages, Samaa reported. "Army troops directed to carry out immediate rescue work in any affected areas without waiting for formal orders," Director General ISPR, Major General Asim Bajwa said on Twitter.