Pakistani army kills 11 militants in raid in the northwest following bombing that killed 7 soldiers

Pakistani security forces raided a militant hideout, killing 11 in an overnight operation in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the restive northwest, authorities said on Tuesday. The intelligence-based raid was in retaliation to Sunday’s roadside bombing that killed seven soldiers in the same Lakki Marwat district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, bordering Afghanistan,…

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Houstonian convicted for sending death threats to U.S. senator

A federal judge has returned a guilty verdict against a local man for making threats to injure a U.S. senator, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal, after careful deliberation, found Issac Ambe Nformangum, 24, guilty on one count of interstate communications with a threat to injure following a two-hour…

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Son of Al-Qaeda Leader Is Dead, Group Confirms

Khaled Saleh al-Din Zidane, a senior member of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the son of the group’s de facto leader, Saif al-Adel, has died. The news was announced through AQAP’s official magazine, al-Malahim, which confirmed his death but did not disclose the circumstances. Khaled, 29, was deeply involved in the group’s operations…

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