Anti-government fighters have fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace in the Somali capital, prompting return fire by troops that killed at least 16 people, medical officials and residents say.

NATO forces clashed with Afghan troops Saturday at a snow-covered highway outpost, calling in an airstrike that killed four Afghan soldiers, U.S. and Afghan officials said.

CAIRO – American military teams and intelligence agencies are involved in secret joint military operations with Yemeni troops that killed scores of Al-Qaeda people in recent weeks.

Five former Bangladeshi soldiers have been executed for the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country’s independence leader and first president, in a military coup over three decades ago.

Al Jazeera has learnt that a plan is being considered to pay up to $1bn to Taliban fighters to persuade them to lay down their arms.In advance of an international conference in London to discuss Afghanistan’s future on Thursday, Japan, the United States and Britain are said to be leading the proposal.

Sheikh Abdul Hameed demanded the Iranian government to review the discriminatory policies which Sunni sect has been suffering in Iran for many years.

ISTANBUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he will press for Taliban names to be removed from a UN blacklist, as peace overtures intensified heading into a London conference.

MIRAMSHAH: A suspected US drone has crashed in North Waziristan, sources said Sunday.

Kurdistan: Sheikh Asaad Siddiqi and Sheikh Saeed Zulfiqari, the great Sunni scholars and prominent personalities in Kurdistan and Kermanshah provinces had passed away.

Khorasan: the Iranian authorities have arrested a group of Sunni scholars and thrown them in prison.