All six terrorists who attacked one of India’s largest air force bases near the country’s border with Pakistan over the weekend have been killed, the Indian defense minister said Tuesday, noting that soldiers were still combing through the facility looking for explosives.
Protests over Saudi Arabia’s execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr have spread through Iran, Iraq, Bahrain, Pakistan, Lebanon, Turkey, and now India, especially in districts with a heavy Shiite population.
Contents: In major strategic escalation, Pakistan will use tactical nuclear weapons against India; India threatens use of its ‘Cold Start’ conventional tactics; Implications of Pakistan’s nuclear strategy for Iran and Saudi Arabia
The first-ever planned national security-level talks between India and Pakistan were called off this week after Pakistan refused to back down from meeting with separatists from the disputed, Indian-controlled region of Kashmir.
Hostilities flared in Indian-held Kashmir after a right-wing Hindu group set a Muslim flag ablaze, claiming it was the banner of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), the Journal of Turkish Weekly reports.
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has reportedly said that she’s prepared to support Greece leaving the eurozone, and returning its original drachma currency, if Greece abandons the austerity commitments it made in return for the 240 billion euro bailout that has already been paid.
For the first time, Cameroon’s air force conducted air strikes in support of the army against Boko Haram positions in northern Cameroon, forcing the terrorists to retreat.
