New York: The International Justice Network, attorneys for the family of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, issued the following statement today after Dr. Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years in prison by Judge Berman at the US federal court in Manhattan.

Thousands of people have held anti-US demonstrations across Pakistan to protest an American court’s verdict against a female Pakistani scientist.

KABUL: Reports arriving from Gardez city say that on Friday afternoon, at around 12:30 pm, 10 Afghan Taliban entered in a US invaders base located on Gardez-Khost main highway.

MOGADISHU: Somalia’s al-Qaeda-inspired Shabab militants launched a fresh offensive in Mogadishu Thursday, sparking clashes that killed at least 19 civilians, medics and witnesses said.

Three strikes by US drones have killed at least 28 people in the tribal region in South Waziristan. Reporting for Al Jazeera from Islamabad, Kamal Hyder said that the first attack took place near Angor Adda along the Pakistan Afghan border.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has claimed the abduction of five French nationals in Niger and said  that it will make demands to France regarding them.

At least nine US-led troops have lost their lives in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force says.“The cause of the crash is under investigation,” a NATO statement said on Tuesday.

KURDISTAN: Few days ago the Iranian forces arrested the Sunni scholar, Shaikh Mullah Muhsen Husaini, imam and khateeb of the Sunni community in Kamyaran city of Kurdistan province.

At least 23 soldiers have been killed in Tajikistan after a convoy was attacked by suspected Muslim fighters, according to a spokesman for the Central Asian nation’s army.

At least 10 people have been killed in rocket and bomb attacks by suspected Taliban fighters as voting took place in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections.