KP Police personnel patrol the area after an attack. — AFP/File Armed men set the vehicle on fire before fleeing with captives. Operation underway to recover the rest of the captives: sources. Police and CTD shot dead three TTP activists in a joint action. Security forces on Thursday rescued eight of the 17 civilian workers … Read more
A flight attendant aboard a Swiss plane that made an emergency landing in Austria due to smoke in the cabin has died, the airline said Tuesday. The Bucharest-Zurich flight on December 23 was diverted to Graz after engine problems and smoke filling the cockpit and cabin, Swiss International Air Lines said in a statement. statement. … Read more
Moscow — Russian security services announced Wednesday that they had arrested a suspect in the murder of a high-ranking general in Moscow. The suspect was described as an Uzbek citizen recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services. Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, did not name the suspect, but said he was born in 1995. According to … Read more
Moscow — The head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, was killed along with his deputy on Tuesday morning in an explosion in Moscow, the Russian Investigative Committee announced. Ukrainian security sources told CBS News that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) killed Kirillov during a special operation. This … Read more
The United States has carried out airstrikes in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime, in part, it says, to prevent a resurgence of ISIS. Holly Williams has seen firsthand how U.S.-backed forces in Syria are also working to disrupt the group.
Johannesburg — The Sudan Rapid Support Forces, a camp in a civil war which tore the African nation apart for over a year and created one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planetare accused of raping numerous women and girls and using some as sex slaves in a new Human Rights Watch report. The … Read more
Eastern Syria — CBS News was among the first media outlets to speak out Thursday with Travis Timmermanan American who was feared dead by family and friends, days after being released from a notorious Washington prison. Syria. He said he had spent seven months in prison by the current regime.deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad before the … Read more
Pakistani army soldiers patrol in a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. — AFP/File IBO conducted in general Sargodha area of South Waziristan. Two militants, including the head of the network, killed during the operation. Another PCI carried out in Lakki Marwat district of KP. Security forces killed a total of eight terrorists in two separate operations in Khyber … Read more
Famous photographer’s new book focuses on the forces behind the global food chain – CBS News Watch CBS News Award-winning photographer George Steinmetz has released his sixth book, “Feed the Planet.” The book focuses on the people and places that fuel the global food chain and highlights how these resources are increasingly under strain. Be … Read more
Extreme turbulence Thursday over Greenland forced a Norwegian Airlines flight from Stockholm to Miami to turn around and return to Europe. Dramatic video from Norwegian Airlines Flight 957 shows the severe turbulence that left some of the 254 passengers screaming and the cabin littered with debris. No serious injuries were reported during the flight. The … Read more