A group of unidentified gunmen in southwestern Pakistan have set ablaze 20 NATO tankers carrying oil to US-led soldiers stationed in war-hit Afghanistan.According to some witnesses, unidentified armed men on Friday night opened live ammunition on tankers at a time when the drivers were inside a roadside restaurant near Dera Murad Jamali in Balochistan province […]

The top US military official has cast doubts about the time of a withdrawal from Afghanistan and the number of American forces to leave the violence-wracked nation.The head of the Joint Chief of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen reiterated that the Pentagon does not know how many soldiers will be pulled out in July and predicted […]

At least eight Afghan security officers have lost their lives while twenty-nine others have been wounded after a massive explosion rocked the Afghan capital, Kabul.The attack took place during the morning rush hour on Wednesday as a motorcycle bomb targeted a minibus carrying Afghan security personnel near the parliament building in western Kabul, a Press […]

KABUL: A Nato airstrike in central Afghanistan killed three Afghan police officers who were mistaken for insurgents, the coalition said Monday, in an operation that could cause new friction between the international force and a government struggling to find stability.

Up to 70 people on board an IranAir passenger jet have been killed and more than 30 injured after it crashed in the country’s northwest, IRNA, the Iranian news agency, says quoting an Iranian Red Crescent official.

More than 100,000 people rallied in Karachi on Sunday against proposed amendments in blasphemy laws.The massive rally, organized by religious parties, was addressed by Jamat-ud-dawa  Molana Ameer Hamza, Jamat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawar Hasan, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan’s Sahibzada Abul Khair Zubair, JI Karachi amir Muhammad Hussain Mehnati and others.Describing the proposed […]

People in southern Sudan have begun voting in a landmark referendum on independence from the north as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has warned that southern Sudan is not ready for independence.

A hit Malaysian Islamic reality TV show is widening its search for the best young Muslim leader by inviting contestants from around the world to take part in the programme.

Two civilians were killed and eight injured in overnight clashes with police in a provincial town, the Tunisian government said on Sunday, in the latest in a series of riots across the north African country.

Sudan’s president has warned that south Sudan would struggle as an independent nation were it to vote to secede from the north. Speaking just days before a referendum, which is expected to see southerners vote to establish a separate country, Omar al-Bashir told Al Jazeera that he was concerned about possible instability in the south […]