Pakistan has freed four more Afghan Taliban prisoners, including a former justice minister, a Pakistani government official has said, in another sign Islamabad is supporting efforts to start formal peace talks with the armed group.

At least 17 Shia Muslim pilgrims have been killed by a bomb attack on a bus convoy in southwest Pakistan, local officials say.More than 20 people have been injured in the incident in the Mastung district of Balochistan province.   Pakistan has experienced worsening sectarian violence in recent years. Last month 23 Shia Muslims were […]

The head of the Pakistani Taliban has appeared in a video calling for peace talks with the government. Hakimullah Mehsud said his militia is willing to negotiate with the government but not disarm, a message delivered in a video given to Reuters on Friday. The release of the 40-minute video follows three high-profile Taliban attacks […]

Four people have been killed in yet another US assassination drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border.

Muslim scholars in Kyrgyzstan have issued a fatwa banning New Year celebrations in the country, drawing mixed reactions from residents.

A Muslim scholar was shot dead Thursday, December 27, in the internal Russian republic of North Ossetia, to the shock of the Muslim community.

A Taliban spokesman claimed one of their fighters has attacked the US airbase in Khost, Afghanistan. The statement adds: “On Wednesday, December 26, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. local time, a brave martyrdom-seeking Mujahid of the Islamic Emirate conducted a martyr attack on the US major military airbase in the capital of Khost province by slamming […]

An Afghan policewoman has shot and killed a US security adviser in the Kabul police headquarters, NATO and local officials say.

Al-Qaeda-linked fighters occupying Timbuktu in northern Mali have destroyed remaining mausoleums in the ancient city using pickaxes, a leader of the group says.

One US-led soldier serving with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has been killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan.