Pakistan would back a plan to allow the Taliban to open a political office in Turkey to help with talks to end Afghanistan invasion, a Pakistani official said.Pakistan would back a plan to allow the Taliban to open a political office in Turkey to help with talks to end Afghanistan invasion, a Pakistani official said […]

Taliban militants targeted Afghan and US-led forces in separate attacks across the war-ravaged provinces of Afghanistan, killing at least 12 soldiers.

France and Britain have agreed to step up military pressure on Muammar Gaddafi’s regime after meeting of world powers in Doha promised Libyan rebels cash and the means to defend themselves.

Two American soldiers have been killed in a US drone attack in southern Afghanistan, bringing to 121 the number of foreign troops killed in the war-torn country in 2011.The friendly fire incident killed Marine Staff Sergeant Jeremy Smith, 26, and Navy Corpsman Benjamin Rast, 23, in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, according to a US military official, […]

Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president of Cote d’Ivoire, has been arrested by French forces from his bunker in Abidjan.Toussaint Alain, a Gbagbo advisor, told the Reuters news agency that the incumbent president had been “arrested by French special forces in his residence” and “handed over to the rebel leaders”.

A delegation of five African presidents has arrived in the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi in a bid to end hostilities and negotiate a way out of the deepening crisis.

Forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, Cote d’Ivoire’s incumbent president, have fired mortars at the hotel where the Ivorian leader’s internationally recognised rival is based.The Golf Hotel, where Alassane Ouattara has been living protected by UN peacekeepers since last year’s disputed polls, came under attack on Saturday.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Turkey was working on a “roadmap” to end the war in Libya which would include a ceasefire and the withdrawal of Muammar Gaddafi’s forces from some cities.

As fighting is raging between Libyan rivals, Muslim scholars have criticized Turkey’s role in the conflict, calling on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to side with the opposition forces against embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Soldiers loyal to Cote d’Ivoire’s strongman Laurent Gbagbo have asked for a ceasefire, in the face of an offensive to unseat him by internationally recognised president Alassane Ouattara, his army chief said.