Iraqi security forces on Thursday struggled to drive back Sunni militants in several provinces across the country, as the government denied withdrawal of security forces from the Iraqi-Saudi border line, a security source said.
The United States is prepared to send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to train, advise and support Iraqi forces in their fight against insurgency, U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday.
The Pakistani military announced on Sunday that the security forces have launched a major operation against the local and foreign militants in the restive North Waziristan tribal region.
Officials in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province said security forces Thursday killed at least 30 suspected militants.
Russia's strategic forces conducted planned exercises Thursday in the country under the supervision of President Vladimir Putin, the Interfax news agency reported.
Afghan security forces arrested four militants, including a would-be suicide bomber, in northern Afghan province of Jawzjan, foiling a potential terror attack, an official said on Monday.
A new extremist Islamist group called Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) has claimed responsibility for a series of blasts that rocked the area outside Cairo University on Wednesday.
South Korea planned to cut its standing armed forces by more than 110,000 over the next eight years amid lower birth rate that will reduce the number of draftees, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.
Hundreds of people protested Monday near Turkey's southern border against escalated tension resulted from clashes between the army and militants at a security post construction site, local media reported.
A group of masked gunmen forced a train to stop north of the Egyptian capital of Cairo but ran away before carrying out any attack upon the arrival of security forces, official news agency MENA reported.
At least 10 people including six security personnel were killed and 17 others injured in a suicide attack at security forces in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi
One policeman and three militants were killed while nine persons wounded Thursday evening when the Taliban stormed a police station in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, authorities said.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the phone, underscoring American support for and assistance to Iraq in its fight against an al-Qaida-linked group.
3 people who the Egyptian military accused of terrorism were killed in confrontations with the armed forces after they allegedly killed a police officer and wounded a soldier early Thursday in al-Arish, a border city with Israel, a military spokesman said.
Egypt's prosecutor general Hesham Barakat ordered Tuesday four police officers to be remanded in custody over charges of killing 36 members of Muslim Brotherhood last August, state TV reported.
Exactly 12 years ago on Oct. 7, 2001, the U.S.-led military coalition forces invaded Afghanistan to topple the Taliban regime that harbored Osama Bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the deadly 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Egyptian security forces dispersed Muslim Brotherhood supporters who tried to forcefully enter Tahrir square on Sunday.
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