At least five people were killed and more than eight wounded on Thursday after a bomb hit a Pakistan Navy bus in the Karsaz area of the restive southern port city of Karachi, in the third such attack this week.

Eight foreign soldiers and a contractor have been killed in Afghanistan after an Afghan army officer opened fire at the air force headquarters at Kabul airport.The Pentagon later confirmed that all those killed in Wednesday’s incident were Americans.

Several bomb attacks on buses across Pakistan have reportedly claimed 20 lives and injured around 50 people, including women and children.Two of the blasts hit buses carrying navy officers to work in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, Press TV reported Tuesday.

At least 540 Taliban militants, including 106 commanders, have escaped from Kandahar central prison in southern Afghanistan, an official says.According to Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, 541 Taliban prisoners managed to escape from Kandahar prison early Monday. He said 106 of them are key Taliban commanders, a Press TV correspondent reported.

NATO forces flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziyah compound early on Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi’s government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader’s life.

At least four missiles fired by two suspected US drone aircraft hit a house in Pakistan’s tribal region of North Waziristan on the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani intelligence officials say.

The French foreign ministry says military advisors would provide logistics and intelligence training to anti-government forces in Benghazi, the opposition stronghold.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari says non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes in his country are severely harming Pakistan-US ties, insisting that the drone bombings undermine anti-terror efforts.

Separate militant attacks and violent incidents have killed several people in various parts of Afghanistan as the security situation continues to deteriorate in the country.

KABUL: NATO says three more of its service members have been killed in Afghanistan on one the deadliest days for NATO troops in the country this year.