MIR ALI: A suspected US missile strike killed 13 people Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region where several militant outfits are bent on attacking Western troops across the Afghan border, officials said.

Two US troops and a British soldier have been killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan, amid a surge in Taliban attacks against the US-led forces in the war-ravaged country.

Five US soldiers have been charged with premeditated murder over the killings of three Afghan civilians in the province of Kandahar earlier this year, the US army has said.

KABUL: Five Nato troops including one American died Tuesday, continuing a grim trend that could make June among the deadliest months of the nearly 9-year-old Afghan war.

Landslides in southeastern Bangladesh have killed at least 49 people, with many victims being buried alive as they slept overnight.

Afghanistan has nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits, according to a US study. A report in the New York Times said previously unknown reserves of lithium, iron, gold, niobium, cobalt and other minerals could transform the impoverished country into one of the world’s most lucrative mining centres.

The death toll from ethnic fighting in Kyrgyzstan jumped dramatically today when an Uzbek community leader said that at least 200 people had been killed.

Many US allies plan for withdrawal from Afghanistan, one of those countries is Poland. Poland’s prime minister wants NATO to plan its withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Kyrgyzstan’s interim government has extended a state of emergency in the country’s south in a bid to stop ethnic clashes that have killed more than 100 people.

At least 49 people have been killed and more than 600 others wounded in an outbreak of violence in the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Osh.