IRGC member shot dead in “terrorist” attack in Iran

Tehran, Jan 18 (UNI) Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said one of its members was shot dead in a “terrorist” attack on Wednesday in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, media reports said. The IRGC member, identified as Hossein-Ali Javdanfar, was assassinated after being shot in a “terrorist” attack on a road from…

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21 arrested in Tunisia for alleged links to terror group

Tunis, Jan 18 (UNI) Tunisia arrested 21 individuals for alleged links to a terror group, the Tunisian National Guard said on Wednesday in a statement. Tunisian security units in several provinces across the country arrested 21 members of an extremist religious cell, including two women, according to a statement posted on the National Guard’s Facebook…

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Ankita survives scare as Rutuja defeats Shimizu

Bengaluru, Jan 17 (UNI) India’s leading star Ankita Raina rallied brilliantly to come back from the brink of defeat after trailing 1-5 in the second set to come up trumps against Viktoria Morvayova in a first-round encounter of the KPB Trust ITF Women’s Open played at the KSLTA Stadium here on Wednesday. The eighth seed,…

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Iranian FM holds phone conversation with Pakistani counterpart

Tehran, (UNI) Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Wednesday held a phone conversation with his Pakistani counterpart, Jalil Abbas Jilani, and said that Tehran respects Islamabad’s sovereignty, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said. On Tuesday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched ballistic missiles and drones at a base of terrorist group Jaish al-Adl in Pakistan’s…

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