The Israeli military says it has arrested a senior commander of the Palestinian faction Hamas after he spent more than a decade on the run. Israeli troops and the Shin Bet security service caught Maher Uda overnight Saturday near the West Bank town of Ramallah.
As Turkey reels from the fallout of an alleged plot to unseat the government, politicians and military men have dominated the headlines. But what do ordinary Turks think about the showdown between the country’s Islamist-rooted government and secular armed forces?
Three alleged contract killers have been arrested over the murder of a defence lawyer representing one of three men on trial over the 2008 Mumbai attacks, police said. The trio, aged 25, 28 and 32, were detained in a Mumbai suburb and are being questioned over the ...
Police have arrested more than 1,000 right-wing Hindu activists in the Indian city of Mumbai as part of increased security to stop violence over the release of a new Bollywood film. "Right now, 1,000 plus people have been arrested. Most of them (the arrests) are preventive," senior ...
China officials have shut down Black Hawk Safety Net, the country's biggest hacker training Website, and arrested three people for making hacker tools available online. - China announced it has arrested three people in connection with operating a hacker training school that distributed malware and hacking ...
Police arrested almost 1,000 people among the violent fringes of a mass rally in Copenhagen intended to put pressure on the UN climate summit to take stronger action. Tens of thousands of people took part in the Saturday march to the heavily guarded conference centre where world ...
The Philippines said on Sunday it had detained more than 60 people and seized a stunning array of weapons after imposing martial law in a southern province in the wake of a massacre. A total of 62 people were swept up in raids over the weekend, including ...
Serbian police (MUP) made more than 500 arrests in the so-called Morava operation in the fight against drug trafficking and other criminal activity. According to Interior Minister Ivica Dačić, more than 600 buildings were searched and several hundred people were arrested on the suspicion of selling illegal substances and ...
Pakistani security forces have arrested a Taliban leader in the country's largest city of Karachi along with three other militants, averting a major attack, police said on Monday. "The terrorists were planning for a big attack but the city has been saved from a major disaster," said ...
Kosovo Serbs have been protesting the arrest by EULEX police of four of their countrymen from Bostane and Jasenovik on suspicion of war crimes. A fifth individual was detained for obstructing the police.
IM Ivica Dačić hasn't ruled out the possibility of preventive arrests of those who threaten Pride Parade participants and says the govt. will discuss the event. Speaking to B92, Dačić said that it would good if the parade could pass off without incident so that Serbia could show itself in ...
Pakistan’s military says soldiers have arrested the spokesman for the Taliban in the Swat Valley and four other commanders, striking its first major blow against the leadership of the insurgency in the one-time tourist resort. Two had bounties of 10 million rupees (US$121,000) on their head,
Pakistan said Friday it arrested the chief spokesman and a commander of Taliban militants in Swat, capturing the first most-wanted ring leaders behind a devastating two-year insurgency. The northwest valley slipped out of government control after radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah rose up in
In a major anti-terror operation, Australian police have arrested four men they say were planning a suicide attack on an army base in the country. Hundreds of officers were involved in a series of dawn raids in the southern city of Melbourne.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- FBI agents are sweeping across northern New Jersey Thursday, making arrests in what reportedly is described as a major corruption probe. WNBC-TV in New York reported and showed images of the mayors of Hoboken and Secaucu...
NEW YORK — An Iranian-American scholar whom Iran once accused of fomenting political unrest has been arrested by authorities there for the second time in two years, his family said Friday. Security forces arrested Kian Tajbakhsh late Th...