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.

Several bomb attacks on buses across Pakistan have reportedly claimed 20 lives and injured around 50 people, including women and children.Two of the blasts hit buses carrying navy officers to work in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, Press TV reported Tuesday.

At least 540 Taliban militants, including 106 commanders, have escaped from Kandahar central prison in southern Afghanistan, an official says.According to Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, 541 Taliban prisoners managed to escape from Kandahar prison early Monday. He said 106 of them are key Taliban commanders, a Press TV correspondent reported.

NATO forces flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziyah compound early on Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi’s government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader’s life.

At least four missiles fired by two suspected US drone aircraft hit a house in Pakistan’s tribal region of North Waziristan on the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani intelligence officials say.

The French foreign ministry says military advisors would provide logistics and intelligence training to anti-government forces in Benghazi, the opposition stronghold.