KHASH: the preacher of Sunnis in Azadshahr, Mawlana Muhammad Hussein Gurgij has condemned the confiscation of some Sunni scholars’ passports and said that Sunni ulema never purloin inside or outside of Iran to the country.

Taliban militants claim they have shot down a chopper belonging to the US-led military forces in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the helicopter went down in Kunar on Sunday. He added that the chopper was hit during an anti-militant offensive in the volatile region.

KHASH: A person who betrays his or her religion and beliefs would sellout to the country, Shaikh Abdul Hameed has said in a religious ceremony in the northern city of Balochistan, Khash.

NATO has announced that four US-led soldiers have lost their lives in southern Afghanistan amid a growing fear in the West of the number of fatalities in the war-ravaged country.

Attacks in two different Afghan provinces – Nangarhar in the east and Kunduz in the north – have left several people dead, including many of the assailants. In Saturday’s first attack, a pre-dawn Taliban raid was thwarted by soldiers at a US military facility – Forward Operating Base Fenty – that is part of the […]

The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for a car bomb that destroyed a police facility in Karachi, the country’s biggest city, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 100 others.

Taliban militants have stormed a police checkpoint in southern Uruzgan province killing seven policemen, deputy provincial governor said. “The attack happened in Khas Uruzgan district at 01:00 a.m. local time as a result seven policemen were killed and others sustained injuries,” said Khudai Rahim, Uruzgan’s deputy provincial governor, reported Xinhua on Wednesday.

Foreign troop death toll in Afghanistan has hit 633 so far this year after the deaths of 3 US-led soldiers in the country as the rising casualties have increased opposition to the war.

JAKARTA: U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday much more needs to be done to repair frayed U.S. relations with the Muslim world in an acknowledgement of the difficulties in eradicating “years of mistrust.”

The US commander in Afghanistan has prepared a color-coded timetable for handing over the control of Afghan provinces to local security forces. US Army General David Petraeus plans to submit his timetable to NATO leaders at a summit in Lisbon on November 19, The Times reported.