By Craig Whitlock The skies over Somalia have become so congested with drones that the unmanned aircraft pose a danger to air traffic and potentially violate a long-standing arms embargo against the war-torn country, according to United Nations officials. In a recently completed report, U.N. officials describe several narrowly averted disasters in which drones crashed into a refu­gee camp, flew dangerously ...

By ALISSA J. RUBIN and HABIB ZAHORI KABUL, Afghanistan — A local officials in western Afghanistan reported Tuesday that a low-level police commander had switched sides with his men and gone to fight for the Taliban, and an American engineer was reported killed in an area less than 50 miles from the Afghan capital. The apparent defection occurred in the Bala Baluk district of Farah Province in the far west p ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan BEIRUT — With warplanes circling overhead, Syrian attack helicopters pounded rebel-held neighborhoods in Aleppo on Tuesday in an escalation of the battle for the country's commercial capital and largest city, residents and activists said. Following a pair of rebel assaults on the country's two main cities and a bombing that wiped out some of his top security last week advisors, Pre ...

By Imran Malik In a blatant display of overwhelming power and clout, the US forced Pakistan’s hand in the nerve wrecking and vital battle of wits for the Nato supply routes and by implication the future of its Afghan campaign. The US pressure tactics included a double pincer movement of sorts, comprising a strategic and an economic prong targeting Pakistan’s obvious vulnerabilities. The [caption id="attachm ...

Maimuna Ashraf Finally a decided decision has explicitly declared, NATO supply has been resumed since the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was ‘sorry’ for the loss of life in a botched air raid.  This sorry is being issued after seven months of the demise of twenty-four Pakistani soldiers, who lost their lives as a result of NATO attack on Pakistani military check post. The US [caption id="att ...

 Zaheerul Hassan Acoording to ISPR five people killed in   an MI-17  helicopter crash of the Pakistan Aviation. The helicopter  was on its test flight.  The pilot and a co-pilot, have also been  killed . Reportedly,  the helicopter was on a routine flight when it caught fire near the Skardu airport.The pilot tried landing the helicopter at the nearest airbase, but it crash after catching fire. ...

HAARP is a congressionally initiated programme jointly managed by US Air Force and US Navy. The programme’s purpose is to provide a research facility to conduct pioneering experiments in ionospheric phenomenon and to assess the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technique for communication and surveillance uses. Ever since the existence of HAARP became public, a number of independent researche ...

Ian Sample and James Randerson Named after Peter Higgs, an Edinburgh University physicist, the Higgs boson is crucial to understanding the origin of mass. Shortly after the big bang, it is thought that many particles had no mass, but became heavy later on thanks to the Higgs field. Any particles that interact with this field are given mass. The Higgs boson is the signature particle of the field. What exactl ...