Six killed in shootout in Indian Kashmir 11/18/2017 2:35:42 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print Indian security personnel stand around the body of a gunman killed by Indian forces during an Srinagar, India, AFP, 18 November 2017  - Five suspected rebels and an air force commando were killed during a fierce gunbattle Saturday in Indian-administered Kashmir which also left another soldier injured, the Indian army said. The shootout began when soldiers cordoned off a neighbourhood in the northern area of Hajin after a tip-off that armed militants were hiding there, said army spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia. “Five militants have been killed in the operation,” Kalia told AFP. “One IAF (India Air Force) soldier was martyred and another army soldier was injured.” On Friday a militant and a police officer were killed in the outskirts of the main city of Srinagar during a brief shootout. Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since ...

Video: Tillerson Calls on Europe to Back Latest Sanctions on Iran 10/23/2017 7:13:16 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print Rex Tillerson US Secretary of State met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Bloomberg, October 22, 2017  - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on European governments to join a U.S.-led sanctions regime against Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, saying that countries doing business with the Islamic Republic’s force do so at their own risk. The Revolutionary Guards “foment instability in the region and create destruction in the region,” Tillerson told reporters in Riyadh on Sunday after talks with King Salman of Saudi Arabia and other top officials. European countries and companies that do business with the IRGC “really do so at great risk,” he said. Tillerson is in Saudi Arabia looking to counter Iranian influence in the region, including by bolstering an alliance between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. In the same vei...