KHASH- About 500 students of various Sunni seminaries of the Sistan-Balochistan province participated in the 13th annual competition conducted on 10th May  in Khash, south east of Iran.

A NATO air strike killed at least 16 civilians and wounded up to 40 at a guest house in the eastern Libyan city of Brega on Friday, state television reported.It said the attack occurred at dawn and most of the victims were clerics who had gathered for a religious ceremony.

Twin bomb blasts targeting a paramilitary training centre in northwest Pakistan have killed at least 73 people, mostly paramilitary personnel, and wounded at least 100 others, police officials say.

A statement purporting to come from a son of Osama bin Laden has questioned the legitimacy of the al-Qaeda leader’s killing.The statement, published by the New York Times and attributed to Omar bin Laden, bin Laden’s fourth eldest son, said the al-Qaeda chief’s children reserved the right to take legal action in the United States […]

Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan under a secret deal signed between the two allies that allowed the United States to launch unilateral raids into Pakistani lands to hunt Al-Qaeda leader.

Taliban militants say they have launched a missile attack on the biggest US-led military base in the troubled western Afghanistan.According to a Taliban spokesman, the Taliban militants  shelled a military airport in Shindand town in Herat Province, a Press TV correspondent reported.

A number of blasts have been heard from apparent NATO missile strikes targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in the capital, Tripoli, witnesses have said.

The death toll from two days of heavy fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants in the southern city of Kandahar has risen to 23.The fighting broke out after the Taliban unleashed a major assault on government buildings. Reports say militants have also entered an Afghan army base and a school.

TUNIS – In a bid to quell angry protests, Tunisia declared an overnight curfew in and around the capital starting from Saturday, May 7, stirring protesters anger who accused the interim administration of suppressing their freedoms.

ZAHEDAN: Celebrating over the assassination of Osama bin Laden proves lack of sagacity and wisdom, violence can not be stopped by elimination of some one, but such powers must change their barbaric and graceless policies, Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunna pointed in his latest Friday sermon in Zahedan.