A US drone strike has killed Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al-Qaeda-linked figure, in Pakistan’s tribal region after a tipoff from local intelligence, according to a Pakistani intelligence official.A US embassy spokesman said on Saturday he could not confirm the killing of Kashmiri or whether Pakistan provided support for an operation.

A top US general in Afghanistan has dismissed speculations that the alleged death of Osama bin Laden may result in an expedited drawdown of US forces in the country.Deputy Commander of US Forces in Afghanistan Lieutenant General David Rodriguez told a press conference in Washington on Thursday that the Taliban could regain a foothold if […]

At least 22 policemen and 45 militants have been killed when hundreds of heavily armed Taliban militants from Afghanistan attacked a key police station in Pakistan’s troubled northwestern tribal belt.More than 200 Taliban militants launched the attack from across the border in the Afghan province of Kunar on Wednesday and targeted the Shaltalu police checkpoint […]

Militants in northwest Pakistan have torched at least seven oil tankers carrying fuel for US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani authorities say.Pakistani authorities say that the trucks went up in flames after a bomb was detonated at a parking lot in Khyber Agency later on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.

At least 56 people, including dozens of civilians, have been killed in US-led airstrikes in various parts of Afghanistan over the past days.

An operation to regain control of a Pakistani naval base assaulted by Taliban militants has been completed after almost 16 hours of fighting with up to 20 assailants holed up in a building, a security official told Reuters from inside the base.

At least one person has been killed and 10 others wounded after an attack on two US consulate vehicles in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.

At least ten Afghan protesters have been killed and fifty others wounded during an anti-US rally in northern Afghanistan following the killings of four Afghan civilians by the US-led forces.

A powerful bomb explosion has killed at least four US-led soldiers and wounded several others in the troubled southern Afghanistan, NATO says.The US-led military alliance says the soldiers were killed following an improvised explosive device attack in the violent region on Monday.

Gunmen have shot and killed a Saudi diplomat in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, as he was driving to his country’s consulate, police and Saudi embassy staff say.Hassan al-Khatani, a diplomat who worked at the Saudi consulate, was shot dead by two gunmen who were riding a motorcyle early on Monday morning, Pakistani police officials said.