KERMANSHAH- The key leader of “Maktab-e-Qur’an Movement of Kurdistan”, Shaikh Saifullah Husaini has been released after being in custody 30 months in “Dizelabad” jail of Kermanshah, west of the country.

US officials were concerned that Pakistan could jeopardise the Osama bin Laden operation and “might alert the targets,” if Islamabad took part in the mission, Leon Panetta, the CIA director, has said.

Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan have threaded to launch retaliatory attacks on the US following the suspicious killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden near Islamabad.

Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, is dead.US president Barack Obama said bin Laden, the most-wanted fugitive on the US list, had been killed on Sunday in a US operation in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, about 61km north of Islamabad.

A US-led missile strike has killed at least three Afghan children and wounded several others in Afghanistan’s troubled south.US-led forces have shelled civilian houses during a military operation in a district in Logar province, a Press TV correspondent reported on Sunday.

ZAHEDAN- The extremist and pro-government elements have added another blame in the list of their baseless accusations on the Islamic scholars of Sunni Muslims in Iran.

TRIPOLI – The youngest son of Muammar Gaddafi and three of his grandchildren were killed in a Nato airstrike on a house where the Libyan leader and his family were staying at the time, a government spokesman said.

Taliban militants in Afghanistan have declared a fresh offensive amid surging insecurity in the asian country, warning they would hit various targets.

At least five people were killed and more than eight wounded on Thursday after a bomb hit a Pakistan Navy bus in the Karsaz area of the restive southern port city of Karachi, in the third such attack this week.

Eight foreign soldiers and a contractor have been killed in Afghanistan after an Afghan army officer opened fire at the air force headquarters at Kabul airport.The Pentagon later confirmed that all those killed in Wednesday’s incident were Americans.