A Flydubai flight carrying around 150 passengers from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk after a knife attack allegedly broke out between two pilots inside the cockpit. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacking pilot apparently intended to crash the aircraft, while passengers helped restrain him and relief pilots took control of the plane. Both pilots were injured and taken to hospital. Flydubai confirmed a cockpit altercation and said
Two Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) terrorists were killed in a security operation in Nokcha, Chagai district, after allegedly setting fire to an empty water tanker and attempting to flee. Security sources said the militants were also involved in arson attacks along the N-40 highway.
Five terrorists affiliated with the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed in an intelligence-based operation in Khyber district, security sources said. A large quantity of weapons and ammunition was recovered, while TTP hideouts were also destroyed during the operation.
India’s National Investigation Agency has arrested 13 people across Assam, West Bengal and Kerala in a probe into an alleged network linked to the banned Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh and Imam Mahmuder Kafila. Authorities allege the network was involved in online radicalisation, recruitment and extremist propaganda targeting young people.
A suspected suicide bombing targeted a government revenue office in Tator village on the outskirts of Tank district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Police said only the suspected suicide bomber was killed, with no civilian or security personnel casualties reported.
Three policemen were killed and two people wounded in a gun attack on a traffic police van in Tank, while security forces reportedly killed four TTP militants in an intelligence-based operation in Dera Ismail Khan. In Lakki Marwat, police and local committee members also targeted and demolished suspected militant hideouts following recent attacks.
Pakistan’s Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry has alleged that Afghan nationals accounted for around 70 percent of those involved in cross-border terrorism over the past two-and-a-half to three years. Islamabad has repeatedly accused militant groups of operating from Afghan territory, allegations rejected by Kabul.
Pakistan Says Over 71 Terrorists Killed in Balochistan Operations
QUETTA, Pakistan (Terror Monitor) — Pakistan’s security forces have killed more than 71 terrorists during a series of counter-terrorism operations across Balochistan over the past 96 hours, the military’s media wing, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said on Sunday.
According to ISPR, the operations were launched on the basis of intelligence identifying multiple terrorist hideouts in the Shaban area of Quetta district and
Five men have been arrested near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act and explosives-related offences. Around 85 households were evacuated after three suspicious vehicles were found near the U.S.-used airbase, while British Army bomb-disposal specialists examined the vehicles. U.S. President Donald Trump said the suspects were allegedly planning to cause “big damage,” but British authorities have not publicly disclosed their identities, motives or any direct
