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.

MIRANSHAH: The death toll of drone strike in North Waziristan has reached to 13 whereas 12 others wounded in the incident.

At least 39 people have been killed by a suicide bomber at a wedding party in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province. More than 70 people were injured when the blast occurred on Wednesday night as men sat down to eat at the celebration.

ISLAMABAD: Gunmen attacked trucks carrying supplies to Nato forces in Afghanistan, gutting several dozen vehicles in an inferno and killing seven people in a brazen assault near Islamabad, police said Wednesday.

Seven US, one French and two Australian soldiers were killed on June 7, 2010, in separate militant attacks in Afghanistan.

KABUL (Agencies) – Ten NATO soldiers, including at least one American, were killed on Monday in shooting and bomb attacks in war-torn southern Afghanistan, the NATO said late on Monday.

Afghanistan’s interior minister and the head of the intelligence service have resigned over Wednesday’s attack on a peace conference.

Afghan political and religious leaders have called for the start of a peace process to end conflict with the Taliban, offering the country’s president a mandate to open negotiations with the group.

More than 118 people have been killed after a fire engulfed several buildings in the centre of Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, according to government officials.