WARNING: This video contains graphic content that may be upsetting to some viewers.   A video distributed Thursday by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights shows jihadists in the east of the country executing supporters of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The Britain-based watchdog did not specify whether the men killed were combatants, nor did it say when the footage was shot. The men killed by Al-Nusra Front, a […]

Thiruvananthapuram: A total of 6,569 Indian nationals are currently lodged in prisons of 67 foreign countries, including 254 in Pakistan, according to information accessed by a Kerala-based RTI activist from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The Arab countries topped the list with Saudi Arabia (1691), Kuwait (1161) and UAE (1012), according to the information provided by the MEA on April 22 to lawyer and RTI activist DB Binu in […]

Omar Hammami’s enemies appear to be closing in on him. The most wanted American jihadi in Somalia survived a Thursday assassination attempt only to tweet today that his former allies in al-Qaida’s Somali affiliate are stepping up their efforts to wipe him out. On Monday, according to what Hammami warned might be his last words, Shebab gunmen surrounded his home, marched him to “court” and opened fire in a Somali forest. […]

FORT CARSON, Colo.—A female soldier in the U.S. Army pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of desertion after fleeing to Canada to avoid a second tour of duty in the Iraq war. Pfc. Kimberly Rivera was sentenced to 10 months in prison and a bad-conduct discharge after entering her plea at a court-martial. Rivera, 30, was a wheeled-vehicle driver in Fort Carson’s 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and served in […]

Yasin Bhatkal is India’s most wanted terrorist. How has he managed to elude the top sleuths. ON 13 July 2011, terror revisited Mumbai. Three powerful bombs exploded at Zaveri Bazaar, Opera House and Dadar, killing 26 people and injuring 130. This terror case throws up an interesting anecdote, which is pertinent today in the wake of reports that Indian Mujahideen (IM) leader Yasin Bhatkal, 40, had a hand in the […]

India’s broadband connection base decreased 0.12% to 15 million at the end of February 2013, from 15.01 million at the end of January, according to the Indian Telecom regulaton. TRAI Meanwhile, the country’s mobile operators continue to clean up their act: the total number of mobile connections in the country (including multi-SIM and inactive connections) has dropped to 861.66 million in February, even as the active mobile connection base increased: […]

San Francisco: Reddit has apologised for being a rallying point for online witch hunts as amateur sleuths used the social news website to expose the people behind the bombing at the Boston Marathon. “Though started with noble intentions, some of the activity on Reddit fueled online witch hunts and dangerous speculation which spiraled into very negative consequences for innocent parties,” Reddit general manager Erik Martin said in a blog post yesterday. […]

FBI releases footage of Boston Marathon bombing suspects. FBI tip line: 1-800-225-5324. Link to video: Boston Marathon bombing suspects The FBI has released photographs of two suspects in the Boston marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 170, calling upon the public to help them track down the men. At a dramatic press conference in the Sheraton hotel in Boston, just a couple of blocks away from […]

There is no doubt that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba is the deadliest outfit around in the world today. A recent write up in the Pro Publica states that there are nearly 300000 trainees in this group and most of them had joined at the age of 17. While this is a growing worry for the entire world, for India the problem remains specific as the Lashkar-e-Tayiba since the year 2011 has gone […]

Take this job and eat it: man writes resignation letter on cake A moody boss wasn’t the icing on the cake that led an officer of the Border Force from Sawston, Cambridgeshire to quit his job. It was icing. On cakes. Much like the icing with which Chris Holmes spelled out his resignation letter on a cake this week, to the delight of social media users who shared a picture […]