The death toll from two days of heavy fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants in the southern city of Kandahar has risen to 23.The fighting broke out after the Taliban unleashed a major assault on government buildings. Reports say militants have also entered an Afghan army base and a school.

TUNIS – In a bid to quell angry protests, Tunisia declared an overnight curfew in and around the capital starting from Saturday, May 7, stirring protesters anger who accused the interim administration of suppressing their freedoms.

Al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of its leader, Osama bin Laden, and said in an online posting that it will continue to launch attacks on the West.The group said it would not deviate from the path of armed struggle and that bin Laden’s blood “is more precious to us and to every Muslim than to […]

Moro Muslim group on Friday said it was forced to give up an option of independence in talks with Philippines after Muslim Malaysia threatened to stop facilitating peace talks.

US officials were concerned that Pakistan could jeopardise the Osama bin Laden operation and “might alert the targets,” if Islamabad took part in the mission, Leon Panetta, the CIA director, has said.

Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan have threaded to launch retaliatory attacks on the US following the suspicious killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden near Islamabad.

Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, is dead.US president Barack Obama said bin Laden, the most-wanted fugitive on the US list, had been killed on Sunday in a US operation in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, about 61km north of Islamabad.

A US-led missile strike has killed at least three Afghan children and wounded several others in Afghanistan’s troubled south.US-led forces have shelled civilian houses during a military operation in a district in Logar province, a Press TV correspondent reported on Sunday.

TRIPOLI – The youngest son of Muammar Gaddafi and three of his grandchildren were killed in a Nato airstrike on a house where the Libyan leader and his family were staying at the time, a government spokesman said.

Taliban militants in Afghanistan have declared a fresh offensive amid surging insecurity in the asian country, warning they would hit various targets.