Russian nighttime cruise missile strikes targeted and destroyed several positions of the Islamic State (IS) militants in three Syrian provinces, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported Wednesday, citing a military source.
Lightning strikes will increase by about 12 percent in the United States for every one degree Celsius rise in global average air temperature, U.S. researchers who studied the effect of global warming on lightning activity said Thursday.
A court in Pakistan on Thursday ordered registration of murder cases against two former chiefs of U.S. CIA stationed in Islamabad for alleged role in the U.S. drone strikes in the country's tribal region, lawyers and anti-drone campaigners said.
Jet fighters of Pakistan army have killed 38 militants and injured several others in a series of air strikes in the country's northwest tribal area of Khyber Agency on Sunday, local officials said.
Recent developments in the labor front signify a turbulent period ahead, South African Labor Minister Mildred Oliphant said on Tuesday.
Ministers from Pakistan north western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and members of Parliament on Thursday marched in Islamabad against the U.S. drones attacks in the tribal regions.
Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned the latest U.S. drone strike that killed at least five students and their teachers of a religious school.
Pakistan on Sunday condemned American drone strike in the country's tribal region and said these attacks badly affect bilateral relations.
Pakistan on Sunday strongly condemned the U.S. drone strike in the country's tribal region, which killed at least seven people.
Pakistan on Monday strongly condemned the U.S. drone strike that killed two people in North Waziristan tribal agency late last Saturday.
The Pakistani announced on Tuesday to launch a new policy to stop the US drone attacks in the country's tribal regions.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday sought to redefine his administration's counterterrorism policies, announcing new guidelines codifying controversial drone strikes against militant targets, while renewing his pledge to close Guantanamo Bay military detention facility.
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