omantribune.com reported that thousands of tourists visit Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral each year, many drawn by the area’s impressive mountains and glaciers, including the world’s second highest peak K2. Pakistan has seen a surge in attacks in recent weeks and officials are warning these may spread to the north as the spring tourist season gets under way. “The interior ministry has officially informed Gilgit-Baltistan that the Pakistani Taliban can strike the region,” a senior official of the Gilgit-Baltistan administration said on condition of anonymity. Read Article
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theguardian.com reported that Hundreds of Christmas revelers had to be evacuated from central Belfast on Friday night after a bomb partially exploded during one of the busiest nights of the festive season. The device went off as police officers were clearing the Cathedral area of the city around 6.45pm. The police had been responding to […]
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The Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), a terrorist group known to have links to Pakistan-based outfits and blamed for recent violence in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, has released a video describing last month’s attack in Tiananmen Square as a “jihadi operation” and threatened to carry out further attacks on high-profile targets in the Chinese capital. The […]
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France24.com reported that Bahraini authorities have arrested two Gulf citizens who were former Guantanamo detainees on suspicion of preparing a “terrorist act”, state media reported on Sunday. A police chief, quoted by official news agency BNA, said the two suspects, whose names and nationalities were not disclosed, had entered Bahrain with fake passports from Saudi […]
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Al Jazeera reports that a suspected car bomb attack outside a popular hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday evening killed at least six people and left the area covered with blood and burning vehicles, a senior police officer has said. Mogadishu has often been the target of attacks by al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-aligned group […]
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Shanghaidaily.com reports that three gunmen were killed in a search operation by law enforcement in Russia’s North Caucasian republic of Dagestan, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said Monday. “A group of illegal armed units was found in the gorge between the settlements of Kuma and Kundy in Laki district of the republic,” the Itar-Tass news agency […]
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According to Bahrain.usembassy.gov, on Friday, November 1, 2013 through Sunday, November 3, 2013, a violent opposition group has called for demonstrations along the Budaiya Highway corridor from Sanabis to Budaiya at major road junctions. No specific timings are known. Anticipate that the Budaiya Highway corridor will be affected at all times of the day. Expect […]
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shanghaidailly.com reported that Chinese police have detained five suspects for Monday’s deadly car crash at Beijing’s Tian’anman Square that killed five people and have labeled it a terrorist attack. The attack was “carefully planned, organized and premeditated,” police said. Read Article
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shanghaidaily.com reported that at least three domestic flights to or from Changsha in central China were diverted after receiving hoax bomb calls around noon today. Flight JD5662 of Capital Airlines from Changsha in Hunan Province to Hangzhou first reported a hoax bomb call around noon some 30 minutes after the Airbus 319 took off. The […]
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According to euronews.com, a double bomb blast in Dagestan has ripped through two shops selling alcohol in the capital Makhachkala in the volatile Russian republic. There is confusion over the death toll – one or two people are reported dead with at least 15 injured. Witness Uma Gadzhieva described a person leaving a box in […]
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