The United States has reportedly put pressure on Pakistani authorities to allow Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to expand its non-UN-sanctioned drone attacks inside Pakistan.

Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by the Taliban, a report submitted in a court has said and added that there was no evidence of the involvement of the Musharraf govt inthe killing.

The leader of the Afghan Taliban has said the group remains opposed to peace talks despite slow progress toward reconciliation. In a statement issued on Monday,  Mullah Mohammad Omar reiterated that negotiations would not be possible until all foreign troops – now at about 150,000 – leave Afghanistan, labeling talk of negotiations “mere propaganda.”

Taliban militants claim they have shot down a chopper belonging to the US-led military forces in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the helicopter went down in Kunar on Sunday. He added that the chopper was hit during an anti-militant offensive in the volatile region.

NATO has announced that four US-led soldiers have lost their lives in southern Afghanistan amid a growing fear in the West of the number of fatalities in the war-ravaged country.

Attacks in two different Afghan provinces – Nangarhar in the east and Kunduz in the north – have left several people dead, including many of the assailants. In Saturday’s first attack, a pre-dawn Taliban raid was thwarted by soldiers at a US military facility – Forward Operating Base Fenty – that is part of the […]

The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for a car bomb that destroyed a police facility in Karachi, the country’s biggest city, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 100 others.

Taliban militants have stormed a police checkpoint in southern Uruzgan province killing seven policemen, deputy provincial governor said. “The attack happened in Khas Uruzgan district at 01:00 a.m. local time as a result seven policemen were killed and others sustained injuries,” said Khudai Rahim, Uruzgan’s deputy provincial governor, reported Xinhua on Wednesday.

Foreign troop death toll in Afghanistan has hit 633 so far this year after the deaths of 3 US-led soldiers in the country as the rising casualties have increased opposition to the war.

JAKARTA: U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday much more needs to be done to repair frayed U.S. relations with the Muslim world in an acknowledgement of the difficulties in eradicating “years of mistrust.”