The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has backed a resolution authorising a no-fly zone over Libya and “all necessary measures” – code for military action – to protect civilians.

Pakistani people have staged street protests to voice their outrage at the release of a CIA contractor charged with killing two men in Lahore.

Missiles fired by a suspected US drone in Pakistan’s North Waziristan province, near the border with Afghanistan, have reportedly killed at least 35 Taliban fighters, officials have said.

ISLAMABAD – A CIA operator accused of killing two Pakistani youths was released on Wednesday, March 16, after paying blood money to the families of the deceased and under a secret deal between US and Pakistani intelligence services.

TEHRAN- Mawlana Ubaidullah Mousazade along with some detained Sunni scholars of “Taibad” and “Mashhad” have been released on bail in Tehran and Mashhad lately.

An assault on Libya’s rebel-held city of Misrata was stalled on Sunday by new fighting between members of Muammar Gaddafi’s security forces, rebels said, but the government denied reports of a mutiny.

An Al Jazeera cameraman has been killed in what appears to have been an ambush near the rebel-held city of Benghazi in eastern Libya.Ali Hassan Al Jaber was returning to Benghazi from a nearby town after filing a report from an opposition protest when unknown fighters opened fire on a car he and his colleagues […]

Five Israelis, who according to media reports were all members of the same family, have been killed in an overnight attack on a West Bank settlement.Israeli army officials said on Saturday that a Palestinian got into the Itamar settlement near Nablus in the north of the West Bank and killed five people, but did not […]

The sound of explosions and small arms fire came from Ras Lanuf on Friday as government troops landed from the sea backed by tanks and air power fought to recapture the oil port town.

As many as 18 policemen including Abdurahman Sayed Kheli, chief of police of Kunduz were killed and scores of others more were wounded in Kunduz province of Afghanstan at Friday night, March 11.