A passenger plane carrying about 150 people has crashed into the Margalla Hills near the Pakistani capital Islamabad. The accident occurred as the plane was attempting to land on Wednesday morning in bad weather.

At least 25 civilians have been killed and another 27 injured in a roadside bombing in southwestern Afghanistan. The explosion struck a bus travelling on a highway in Nimroz province around 7 am Wednesday (02:30 GMT), officials said.

Taliban sources have told Al Jazeera they are holding one of the two US servicemen who went missing in eastern Afghanistan’s Logar province, and say the other is dead.

US officials believe that the intelligence agency of ally Pakistan, which receives billions of dollars in aid from Washington, has been secretly supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan, leaked records say.

Suspected US drones have fired missiles into a compound used by anti-government fighters in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt, killing at least 16 people, officials said.

Four US soldiers have been killed in a Taliban bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, a NATO statement says.

Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leadership has welcomed a decision from the International Court of Justice ruling that the territory’s declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 is legal.

KARACHI: At least seven people were killed in incidents of targeted killing in various areas of Karachi late on Tuesday, DawnNews reported.

Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has told delegates at an international conference in Kabul that he wants Afghan forces to take over security across the country in four years.

Taliban fighters have freed 14 inmates from a jail in western Afghanistan after staging a daring prison break, police have said.