Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council says its fighters have captured the town of Bani Walid, one of two last remaining strongholds of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Mapping out growth strategies for the booming industry, Islamic finance officials will meet in Malaysia next week to debate the industry’s future path.

At least five people have been killed and four others injured in a non-UN-sanctioned US drone attack on Pakistan’s northwestern region of South Waziristan, Press TV reports.

A United Nations report has found “compelling evidence” that Afghan intelligence officials at five detention centres “systematically tortured detainees for the purpose of obtaining confessions and information”.

Libya’s new rulers have discovered two mass graves containing the bodies of as many as 900 people who had “died not long ago,” reporters on the scene said on Wednesday.

As the clock ticks towards the first post-revolution democratic elections in Tunisia, Islamists are trying to dispel fears of imposing stricter laws if they win coming polls as expected.  

A powerful bomb explosion has rocked Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, killing at least 139 people and injuring scores more, Press TV reports.

ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) awarded death penalty to Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri on Saturday, DawnNews reported.

At least five US-led soldiers with NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have been killed across Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, the military coalition says.

Fighters supporting Libya’s interim government have raced into the eastern outskirts of Sirte backed by NATO warplanes and are fighting street-to-street battles with loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi in his home town.