32 people, including several civilians have been killed in a string of suicide attacks against a regime-held area of southern Syria.
Afghanistan has faced intense attacks by both the Taliban and the country's Islamic State affiliate recently.
Officials of the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) confirmed that it was a suicide blast.
Pakistan:Atleast 150 killed in blast at election rally in Balochistan, Baloch leader Siraj Raisani among dead
The international terrorist organisation Islamic State has claimed the responsibility for the attack on 29 Battalion of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Jammu and Kashmir police at Pantha Chowk in Srinagar on June 16. This is the third attack
While the security agencies have reportedly increased the vigilance after the claim, experts say that this could be part of a new conspiracy by Pakistan.
No one immediately claimed the attack, but it was likely carried out by the Islamic State group, which was not included in the cease-fire and has clashed with the Taliban in the past.
In yet another terrorist attack on capital of France, a knife yielding man stabbed five people in a popular neighbourhood on Saturday night. One of his victims was killed while four others were being treated for injuries.
The vote — the fourth since the 2003 US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein — will be conducted electronically for the first time to reduce fraud.
A series of huge explosions followed by gunshots rocked Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Wednesday. As per a media report, blasts hit Kabul's PD13 and Qala-e-Fatullah area.
In a statement posted on an IS-affiliated website, the Islamic State group said two of its 'martyrdom seekers' carried out the double bombing, targeting the headquarters of the “renegade” Afghan intelligence services in Kabul.
"In Q1 2018, 99 per cent of the IS and Al Qaeda content we took action on was not user reported," Monika Bickert, Vice President of Global Policy Management at Facebook, said.
Though 39 Indians were killed as the Islamic State took over the city of Mosul in 2014, the mortal remains of 38 will be brought back as identification of one body is still pending, Singh said before leaving.
At least two persons were feared dead after a gunman, who claimed allegiance to terror group Islamic State, fired shots in a hostage-taking at a supermarket in southwest France today.
VK Singh said that the government never misled anyone on the matter and that always presented accurate facts related to the search of all Indian citizens in the war-torn nation.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today informed the parliament that the Indians abducted in Iraq in 2014 were killed by Islamic State terrorists and buried in a mass grave.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj earlier in the day told Parliament that all the 39 Indians abducted in Mosul are dead and their bodies have been recovered.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that all 39 Indians in ISIS captivity were dead and their bodies had been recovered.
Randeep Surjewala said the Modi government has "crossed all limits of insensitivity" as it preferred to make the announcement on television rather than calling up every families and informing them individually.
Speaking on the floor of the Rajya Sabha, Sushma Swaraj said that the mortal remains will be brought back to India by MoS for External Affairs VK Singh.
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