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The arsenal uncovered in Mesquite comes on top of at least 16 firearms discovered in the Vegas hotel room Authorities have said they had recovered a weapons cache including firearms, explosives, and ammunition from a house owned by  Las Vegas  gunman Stephen Paddock, as they upped the death toll from the attack to 59. Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said officers searching the house in Mesquite, Nevada recovered "in excess of 18 additional firearms, some explosives and several thousand rounds of ammo, along with some electronic devices we're evaluating at this point." Lombardo said the death toll from the Sunday night assault on an open-air concert on the Vegas Strip had risen to 59, while 527 people had been injured. ALSO READ:  At least 58 dead, more than 500 hurt in Las Vegas shooting; gunman killed He said law enforcement were working four separate crime scenes: Paddock's room at the Mandalay Bay hotel, the concert venue, the gunman's house in Mesqui...

Dhaka hostage crisis ends with 20 hostages, 6 terrorists dead Twenty foreigners were brutally hacked to death by   ISIS   militants inside a restaurant popular with expatriates here in the high-security diplomatic zone before commandos launched an assault today killing six attackers and capturing one alive, ending Bangladesh's worst terror attack. Director of Military Operations Brigadier General Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury said the militants slaughtered 20 hostages before the joint operation led by the armed forces began. Most of those killed were found with their throat slit, he added. "Army Para commando Unit-1 led the operation and killed six terrorists within 13 minutes," Chowdhury told reporters. The mission codenamed 'Operation Thunderbolt' was launched after the Prime Minister ordered the army to intervene to end the hostage crisis, he said. All 20 hostages killed were foreigners, with most being Italian or Japanese. Two senior police officers we...

ISIS may plan Istanbul like attack in US: CIA The Islamic State terror group may carry out a terror attack similar to the one at Istanbul's Ataturk airport,   CIA   Director   John Brennan   has said. The despicable attack at Istanbul's   international   airport that killed dozens and injured several certainly bears the "hallmarks" of the Islamic State's depravity, Brennan said here yesterday. "We've seen ISIL (Islamic State) carry out and incite an array of terrorist attacks in the region, directly, indirectly and I would be surprised that ISIL is not considering carrying out these attacks in the near abroad as well as the far abroad," he said. "And the United States, as we well know, is leading the coalition to try to destroy as much of this poison, inside of Syria and Iraq, as possible. So it would be surprising to me that ISIL is not trying to hit us, both in the region as well as in our homeland," Brennan said while to repl...

Terror being 'incubated' in India's neighbourhood With   Pakistan   obviously in mind, Prime Minister   Narendra Modi   on Wednesday said   terrorism   was being “incubated in India’s neighbourhood” and pressed for action without making any distinction against groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba,   Taliban   and   ISIS   who share the “same philosophy of hate, murder and killings”. In his address to the joint sitting of   US Congress   here, he said terrorism has to be fought with “one voice” as he commended the American Parliament for sending out a clear message by refusing to “reward” those who preach and practice terrorism for political gains, an apparent reference to the blocking of sale of 8 F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan. In the course of his 45-minute speech, he covered all major aspects of the growing relationship between India and the US, particularly strategic ties and civil nuclear cooperation, and emphasised th...

Indian worker in Australia tells court his pro-ISIS post was 'sarcastic' An Indian-origin aviation worker in   Australia   who was sacked last year for posting pro-Islamic State messages on   Facebook   has told a court   that his comments were "sarcastic". Nirmal Singh was facing the 'Fair Work Commission' to argue that his dismissal was 'unfair' by his previous employer Aerocare and was seeking $7,000 in lost wages. The Commission heard Singh had written "We All Support   ISIS " above a shared post from HT (Hizb ut-Tahrir) Australia about the shooting of police account Curtis Cheng by Islamic youth Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar in Sydney. There were five posts in total that concerned Aerocare, two of which included pictures of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Under cross-examination by solicitor Stephen Hughes for Aerocare, Singh said he made the posts on Facebook under a different name and believed he was conversing with a ...

Islamic State (ISIS) technicians are working to develop a   Google-style driverless car   that could navigate itself into a crowded area before detonating an explosive device, aNATO security expert has warned. ISIS' research and development department in the terror group's de facto Syrian capital, Raqqa, is believed to be producing the vehicles at the same time as US Internet giant Google attempts to perfect the same technology. If successful, the invention could prove to be a major headache for security services in Britain and throughoutEurope and North America, where self-driving cars are expected to become commonplace, Daily Express reported. Thousands of driverless cars are expected to be on Britain's roads within the next few years and there is a very real prospect jihadis could prey on the new technology to launch attacks in the UK. Jamie Shea, NATO's deputy assistant secretary general for emerging security threats, said the Islamic extremists were u...

Lashing out at the  Akhilesh Yadav  government over Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali’s concert in Lucknow, the Shiv Sena today branded Uttar Pradesh as an “Islamic state” and alleged that the state government has begun “anti-national business” for appeasing politics.  The ruling ally also took a swipe at the BJP for being a “mute spectator” to the event, and demanded that those who allowed the concert to take place should be booked for anti-national activities. “The ‘Islamic Yadav’ government says that Ghulam Aliwas invited to perform to promote Hindu-Muslim unity. But, to promote unity, why does one need Pakistani artists only? There are fine Muslim artists in the country who are famous,” an editorial in the Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana’ said. “Keeping the upcoming Assembly polls in mind, the Yadav government has started an anti-national business (of inviting Pakistani artists) to play appeasement politics,” it alleged. Further lashing out at the UP government, it sai...

A mosque-cum-seminary run by the Jaish-e-Mohammad(JeM) was sealed and 14 people were arrested by the Counter-Terrorism-Department (CTD) in a raid in Mundeyki Goraya village, Pakistan. Read Articles

Afghanistan-Pakistan wing of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been declared as a ‘foreign terrorist organisation’ by the United States The US Department of State under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act announced the designation of Islamic State Khurasan (ISIL-K) as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO), reported the Dawn. This week, the group carried out terrorist attacks at Pakistani diplomatic missions in Afghanistan and has also been involved in previous terrorist attacks in Pakistan.  Read Articles