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AT Kabul: Attacks on the US patrol base come as tensions escalate on the Syria-Turkey border following a bombing in Istanbul. The United States military has reported two rocket attacks targeting its patrol base in northeastern Syria, but said there were no injuries to its forces. In a statement, the …

AT Kabul: Lieutenant General Asim Munir was on Thursday appointed as the new chief of army staff (COAS) of Pakistan, ending weeks of intense speculation and political tussle in the country. “The Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has decided to appoint Lt. Gen. Sahir Shamshad Mirza as the …

AT Kabul: A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck Turkey’s northwestern Duzce province, with tremors felt in Istanbul city, capital Ankara and other regions, officials said. The earthquake, which struck at 4:08 am [local time] on Wednesday, was centered about 14 kilometres northwest of Duzce, in the Golyaka district, Turkey’s disaster …

AT News Kabul: An earthquake has struck the main Indonesian island of Java, leaving at least 56 people dead and hundreds injured, local officials say. The 5.6 magnitude quake struck Cianjur town in West Java, at a shallow depth of 10km (six miles), according to US Geological Survey data. Officials …

AT Kabul: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has firmly warned to counter US threats with nuclear weapons amid Washington’s military activities in the region, including joint exercises with Seoul and Tokyo. North Korea’s official news agency KCNA said on Saturday that Kim made the warning after he personally oversaw Pyongyang’s …

AT Kabul: According to media reports Authorities in Pakistan said today two separate militant attacks in the country’s northwest had killed at least eight security forces.An early morning ambush of a security vehicle in Lakki Marwat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province killed six members of the police force.Police officials said …

AT Kabul: Russia’s defense ministry has denied allegations circulating that its missiles struck Poland on Tuesday, not long after a U.S. intelligence official said that Russian strikes killed two people in a possible escalation of Russia’s war in Ukraine. “No strikes on targets near the Ukrainian-Polish state border were made …

AT Kabul: An explosion on Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue Sunday killed six people and injured 81 others, the Turkish vice president said. Fuat Oktay, who visited the blast site, told the press at Istanbul’s Taksim Square that the blast is considered a terrorist act, and a female attacker detonated the bomb. …

AT Kabul: Russian Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev met Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday on a trip to deepen trade and security cooperation, as Moscow looks to shore up its economy and bolster its relations. Raisi and Patrushev discussed “various issues of Russian-Iranian cooperation in the field of security, …

AT Kabul: Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has ordered a withdrawal of Russian forces from the west bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson region, according to Russian state media. “Russia Today” news channel announced that Russia has decided to withdraw its forces from the west bank of Dnipro River, …