Taliban small-arms attacks against the US-led troops in Afghanistan have almost doubled in less than a year, Pentagon officials say. According to the Pentagon officials, at least 18,000 attacks were launched by the Taliban against the US-led forces in 2010 as compared with 10,600 in 2009.

A car bomb attack has killed at least seven American soldiers in southern Afghanistan as foreign casualties continue to set new records in the war-ravaged country.Afghan officials say the attacker rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a foreign forces camp in the Zhari district of Kandahar Province, leaving seven American troops killed and four others injured.

A protest over low wages in Bangladesh’s garment industry has left at least three people dead and dozens of others injured in clashes with police in several major cities including the capital, Dhaka.

A fresh US-led airstrike has claimed the lives of at least twenty-five people in the eastern Kunar province in war-ravaged Afghanistan. NATO claims that those killed in the Sunday airstrike were all Taliban militants. But the Afghan government has not confirmed the NATO report yet.

A non-UN-sanctioned US drone attack has killed at least six people and wounded several others in troubled northwestern Pakistan, security officials say. The incident took place in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan on Friday evening, a Press TV correspondent reported.

At least seven Afghan civilians have been killed during the latest spate of US-led air strike in Afghanistan amid the rise in civilian casualties in the war-torn country.The attack took place in Zarmat district in Paktia province on Saturdayn as a group of Afghan road construction workers were working on a project, a Press TV […]

A suicide bomber has blown up a trailer packed with explosives outside a hospital in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 15 people and wounding several dozen, police said.

Three women have been killed when a US remote-controlled drone fired a rocket at a car in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province. The spokesman for the Helmand governor’s office, Dawood Ahmadi, said that the incident took place late on Wednesday in Nad Ali district of the province.

SINGAPORE: Malaysia’s outspoken ex-prime minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday blamed Western lending practices for the world’s financial problems and hailed Islamic banking as a “superior” model.

KABUL: Taliban militants claim they have shot down two chopper belonging to the US-led military forces in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar. The Taliban said at least 17 American soldiers were killed after their helicopter was shot down in the troubled region.