A man wearing an Afghan police uniform has opened fire on US-led troops in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least six foreigners and wounding several others.NATO says the incident happened during a training session and the shooter has also been killed.

At least six people, including two children, have been killed in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Bannu, a city in the northwest of Pakistan. According to officials, a suicide bomber blew himself up near a police van close to a police station, in the Milad park area, on Tuesday.

A non-UN-sanctioned US drone attack has killed at least three people and wounded several others in Pakistan’s troubled northwestern tribal belt. Security officials say the attack targeted a vehicle traveling in a village in the North Waziristan tribal district.

US President Barack Obama’s Kenyan grandmother says she prayed during a hajj pilgrimage to Mecca for the American leader to convert to Islam, a newspaper revealed on Thursday.

Two suicide bombers wearing police uniforms have blown themselves up at an Afghan police headquarters in the east of the country, killing at least 12 officers and wounding another 16.

A US helicopter has crashed in the eastern Afghan province of Wardak due to a technical glitch, NATO has said in a statement. The US-led military alliance said no one was killed or wounded in the crash.

The Pentagon has admitted in a report that the US has failed to establish security in Afghanistan nine years after the US-led invasion of the country. The tone of the new report issued to Congress is in contrast to more upbeat public declarations from top US officials and military leaders.

KABUL: The Taliban on Sunday vowed to keep fighting the U.S.-led coalition and force them to abandon Afghanistan ahead of a 2014 date set by the alliance for the transition of security to Afghan control.

ISLAMABAD: The United States has one again exerted pressure on Pakistan to expand the areas where CIA drones can operate inside the country, reflecting concern that the US war efforts in Afghanistan are being undermined by insurgents’ continued ability to take sanctuary across the border, US and Pakistani officials said.

At least three children have been killed and four others wounded in shootings by US-led forces in eastern Afghanistan, a local commander says. The children were family members of a local police officer in Kunar province, a Press TV correspondent reported on Saturday.