WASHINGTON: President Biden's administration has tightened the policy pertaining to counterterrorism drone strikes, US media reports said.
The policy requires President's approval before a suspected...
WASHINGTON: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is seeking permission from the US administration for expanded powers to carry out covert drone strikes in Afghanistan...
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Nafees Zakria on Thursday said that drone strikes are counter-productive and violate the sovereignty of Pakistan.
Responding to question...
PESHAWAR: Chief of Army staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday said that unilateral actions like drone strikes are counterproductive and against the spirit...
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan withdrew his demand of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's resignation and said that he wants the premier to be held accountable, ARY News reported.
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: The US President Barack Obama is likely to reveal today (Friday) the number of civilians killed in several US military and CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa since he took oath as the president.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dr. Maleeha Lodhi has said that Afghanistan should resolve its own issues, ARY News reported.
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Monday said had he been prime minister of Pakistan, he would not have allowed United States carry out drone strikes in Pakistani territory, ARY News reported.
LAHORE: Pakistan’s prominent lawyer Asma Jahangir has called for ‘expelling’ elements from the country whose presence leads to drone strikes on home soil, ARY News reported.
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly on Tuesday passed two resolutions - one against drone attacks in Pakistan while the other strongly condemning executions of Jamaat-e-Islami leaders in Bangladesh.
ANKARA: Turkish artillery have launched deadly strikes on Islamic State (IS) positions in Syria, while drones that took off from an air base in southern Turkey also pounded the jihadists, state media said Tuesday.
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday ordered registration of a case against the former station chief of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Pakistan, ARY News reported.
SANAA, YEMEN: Drone strikes killed nine suspected Al-Qaeda militants Saturday in southeast Yemen, where the US military launched a failed operation last month to rescue an American hostage, security and tribal sources said.
WASHINGTON: The United States and partner nations are carrying out the first air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, the Pentagon said on Monday, in ongoing operations that mark the opening of a new, far more complicated front in battle against the militants.
SANAA: Al Qaeda militants in Yemen executed three local men in the easterly Hadramout province on Monday whom they suspected of assisting U.S. drone strikes, security sources told Reuters.
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said on Thursday he had authorized "targeted" U.S. air strikes against Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq and military airdrops of humanitarian supplies to besieged religious minorities there to prevent a "potential act of genocide."
MIRANSHAH: Two drone strikes in North Waziristan tribal region killed 16 suspects after the silence of around six months, ARY News reported on Thursday.
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United Nations: The UN General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution calling on states using drone strikes as a counter-terrorism measure to comply with...
MULTAN: Shah Mehmood Qureshi, central representative of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has said that he and PTI Chairman Imran Khan will present the stance of...