Air Strike

UAE intercepts two ballistic missiles targeting Abu Dhabi days after drone attack

This comes after Houthi-launched ballistic missile landed in an industrial area in Jizan, Saudi Arabia, slightly wounding a foreigner, on Sunday

UN Security Council to hold urgent Libya talks after air strike at migrant detention centre near Tripoli kills 44, injures 130

The UN Security Council has called an urgent meeting on Libya to discuss an air strike at a detention centre in Tajoura near Tripoli that killed at least 44 people and severely injured more than 130

Congress says Narendra Modi should tell India 'truth' about number of terrorists killed in Balakot air strike

Two days after Union minister SS Ahluwalia said neither Narendra Modi nor any government spokesperson had given any figure on the casualty of Balakot air strikes, the Congress asked the prime minister to come out with the truth on the number of terrorists killed.

Ratan Tata hails IAF for strikes in Pakistan, praises prime minister Narendra Modi's leadership

Veteran industrialist Ratan Tata on Wednesday praised the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and hailed the Indian Air Force (IAF) for carrying out strikes on Jaish-e-Mohammed's terror camp in Pakistan

Surgical strike on Pakistan: Opposition lauds IAF at all-party meet; Ghulam Nabi Azad says will back forces to end terrorism

Sushma Swaraj had convened the all-party meeting to brief the Opposition parties. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Goel were also present at the meeting.

Villagers near Pakistan's Balakot shaken awake as IAF jets drop bombs close to JeM-run madrasa, say only one injured

Indian officials said the raid destroyed a training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed, the militant group behind a suicide attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 40 members of a paramilitary police force on 14 February. India’s foreign secretary said “a very large number of JEM terrorists” had been eliminated in what was the first Indian air strike on Pakistani territory since 1971.

IAF hits JeM training camps in Pakistan; Islamabad downplays attack but vows to 'act and react'

The news of the pre-dawn strike broke early on Tuesday, when Pakistan military spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor claimed on Twitter that their forces had sent back Indian aircraft which had intruded from Muzaffarabad sector.

Surgical strike on Pakistan: National Security Committee says India 'committed uncalled aggression', response at time and place of choosing

The National Security Committee meeting was attended by Pakistan's ministers of foreign affairs, defence, finance, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee chairman General Zubair Mahmood Hayat, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, Chief of Air Staff Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan and other civil and military officials.

Air strike on terror camps in Pakistan increases Narendra Modi's chance to retain power: Stock market analysts

The air strike on terror camps in Pakistan is a positive for the markets as it illustrates a "decisiveness" in foreign policy and increases the chances of Narendra Modi to retain power after the forthcoming polls, say analysts

'India is in safe hands': Narendra Modi hails IAF strike in Pakistan, vows not to let nation bow down

Modi hailed the air strikes and said that it was the perfect opportunity to remember the pledge he took in 2014 after taking over as PM as he recited BJP’s anthem