ISIS executes over 40 people in Iraq
Baghdad: Sunni radical group Islamic State (ISIS) on Tuesday executed over 40 people, many of them security personnel, in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, an official said. ISIS militants captured over 40 people from the albu-Obeid Sunni tribe, including policemen and members of the Government-backed Sahwa paramilitary group, in al-Baghdadi town, and executed them, Xinhua cited the official, who did not wish to be named, as saying.
TTP commander killed in Pakistan
Peshawar: A key commander and financier of the Pakistani Taliban was killed on Tuesday in a joint operation by security forces and police in the country’s restive northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Bakhti Raj, a regional commander and financier of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was shot dead in the mountainous Buner district of the province.
Minor tsunami IN Japan after undersea quake
Tokyo: A minor tsunami hit northern Japan on Tuesday after a strong undersea earthquake struck off the coast, in the same area that was devastated by a killer tsunami in 2011.
41 seminaries IN PAK TO BE SHUT for parade
Islamabad: The Pakistan Government has decided to shut down 41 religious seminaries here for a week as part of the security arrangements during the Pakistan Day military parade on March 23, an official said on Tuesday.
11 killed in suicide attack in Nigeria
Kano (Nigeria): Eleven people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a checkpoint near the town of Biu in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, a vigilante and a resident said. Gana Sheriff, the vigilante, said the attack happened at about 1.00 pm (1200 GMT) at Yamarkumi village, four kilometres from Biu in Borno State. “It was a suicide attack by three men in a motorised tricycle. They killed 11 people, including Civilian JTF and child vendors at the checkpoint,” he said.
Egypt: Morsi, 198 others to face military trial
Cairo: Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and 198 other Islamist leaders and supporters will be tried in a military court for inciting deadly violence in the city of Suez following his ouster by the Army in 2013, State media reported on Tuesday.