Afghan authorities say a day-long gun battle between the Taliban and security forces in northern Afghanistan, which left several troops dead, has ended. The deadly clash broke out earlier on Sunday following the seizure of an army recruiting center. Four armed militants wearing vests wired with explosives stormed the recruiting center in Konduz Province, killing […]

At least 19 members of Afghanistan’s security forces have been killed in an attack on an army recruitment center in the north of the war-ravaged country. Local officials in the northern Kunduz province say four attackers stormed the recruitment facility early on Sunday and at least one of them was able to detonate his explosives.

The Taliban on Friday rejected the review of President Barack Obama’s year-old war strategy in Afghanistan, saying that it has failed on both the military and the civil administration fronts.

Torture has been routinely used in prisons in Indian-administered Kashmir, a US cable released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks has suggested. The cable, released on Thursday, says that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had briefed US diplomats on widespread torture in 2005.

Four non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes have claimed the lives of at least 26 people in northwestern Pakistan amid public protest. The unauthorized airstrikes took place in the Khyber Agency tribal region on Friday.

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE – The PPP-led government suffered another setback as it plunged to another crisis Tuesday when JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced Tuesday that his party had decided to quit the coalition government.

Deoband: The new Hijri year 1432 came with sad news for all at Darul Uloom Deoband and its alumni spread all across the world. Maulana Marghoobur Rahman, Mohtamim (Rector/ VC) of Darul Uloom Deoband, India passed away on Dec 8 in his hometown Bijnor UP, India at 10:45 AM. He was suffering from various diseases […]

Taliban small-arms attacks against the US-led troops in Afghanistan have almost doubled in less than a year, Pentagon officials say. According to the Pentagon officials, at least 18,000 attacks were launched by the Taliban against the US-led forces in 2010 as compared with 10,600 in 2009.

A car bomb attack has killed at least seven American soldiers in southern Afghanistan as foreign casualties continue to set new records in the war-ravaged country.Afghan officials say the attacker rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a foreign forces camp in the Zhari district of Kandahar Province, leaving seven American troops killed and four others injured.

A protest over low wages in Bangladesh’s garment industry has left at least three people dead and dozens of others injured in clashes with police in several major cities including the capital, Dhaka.