At least 56 people, including dozens of civilians, have been killed in US-led airstrikes in various parts of Afghanistan over the past days.

An operation to regain control of a Pakistani naval base assaulted by Taliban militants has been completed after almost 16 hours of fighting with up to 20 assailants holed up in a building, a security official told Reuters from inside the base.

ZAHEDAN- The tenth national competition of hifz and Qiraa’h (memorizing & well recitation of the Qur’an) was held in Darululoom Zahedan which continued from 17 May to 20 May 2011.

ZAHEDAN- Shaikh Habibullah Marjani, the teacher of Darululoom Zahedan has been arrested by the Iranian Intelligence authorities, no one is aware about his possible situation.

At least one person has been killed and 10 others wounded after an attack on two US consulate vehicles in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.

At least ten Afghan protesters have been killed and fifty others wounded during an anti-US rally in northern Afghanistan following the killings of four Afghan civilians by the US-led forces.

A powerful bomb explosion has killed at least four US-led soldiers and wounded several others in the troubled southern Afghanistan, NATO says.The US-led military alliance says the soldiers were killed following an improvised explosive device attack in the violent region on Monday.

Gunmen have shot and killed a Saudi diplomat in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, as he was driving to his country’s consulate, police and Saudi embassy staff say.Hassan al-Khatani, a diplomat who worked at the Saudi consulate, was shot dead by two gunmen who were riding a motorcyle early on Monday morning, Pakistani police officials said.

Non-UN-sanctioned US drone attacks have killed at least eleven people in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region amid discontent over the growing number of civilian casualties.

American troops have killed several women and children in the troubled eastern Afghanistan amid growing civilian casualties in the war-torn country.Villagers in Kunar Province say the US troops fired rockets at local residents from their military outposts.