Us Night Raids

Nearly 500 employees working at various call centres in Thane, near Mumbai, were detained by the police for allegedly threatening and extorting money from US citizens. The raids were conducted late last night and continued till the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Day and night, warplanes take off from the USS Eisenhower for Iraq or Syria. But below deck on the vast aircraft carrier, the fight against the ISIS group feels a world away.

Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharthi's attempt to conduct a surprise raid on an alleged drug and prostitution ring last night ended in an unseemly row between the minister and the police.

The Afghan army is training female special forces to take part in night raids against insurgents, breaking new ground in an ultraconservative society and filling a vacuum left by departing international forces.

On a swift, secretive trip to the war zone, President Barack Obama declared on Tuesday night that after years of sacrifice the US combat role in Afghanistan is winding down just as it has already ended in Iraq. "We can see the light of a new day," he said on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death and in the midst of his own re-election campaign...

The Afghan government and the US signed a deal on Sunday governing night raids by American troops, resolving an issue that had threatened to derail a larger pact governing a US presence in the country for decades to come.

Nearly 500 employees working at various call centres in Thane, near Mumbai, were detained by the police for allegedly threatening and extorting money from US citizens. The raids were conducted late last night and continued till the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Day and night, warplanes take off from the USS Eisenhower for Iraq or Syria. But below deck on the vast aircraft carrier, the fight against the ISIS group feels a world away.

Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharthi's attempt to conduct a surprise raid on an alleged drug and prostitution ring last night ended in an unseemly row between the minister and the police.

The Afghan army is training female special forces to take part in night raids against insurgents, breaking new ground in an ultraconservative society and filling a vacuum left by departing international forces.

On a swift, secretive trip to the war zone, President Barack Obama declared on Tuesday night that after years of sacrifice the US combat role in Afghanistan is winding down just as it has already ended in Iraq. "We can see the light of a new day," he said on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death and in the midst of his own re-election campaign...

The Afghan government and the US signed a deal on Sunday governing night raids by American troops, resolving an issue that had threatened to derail a larger pact governing a US presence in the country for decades to come.