NATO says three US-led troops have been killed in two separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan, amid a surge in militant attacks against foreign forces in the country. The Western military alliance said two soldiers were killed in the east, while the other was slain in the south. NATO has withheld all other details about the […]

Three US-led NATO troops have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, raising the death toll for foreign soldiers to six only five days into 2011. Two soldiers were killed in a bomb explosion in the east and the third died in a similar attack in the south, AFP reported on Wednesday.

The governor of Pakistan’s powerful province of Punjab, Salman Taseer, has been killed by his own bodyguard in the capital Islamabad, police sources say. Taseer, a senior member of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and a close associate of President Asif Ali Zardari, was killed by his own guard in the capital Islamabad on […]

Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, has arrived in the southern regional capital of Juba to deliver what could be his final address in the region. He will also meet with local ministers ahead of his country’s upcoming vote on secession.

Two US-led service members have been killed in southern Afghanistan on New Year’s Day as 2010 was marked as the bloodiest year in the nine-year-old invasion of the country.

At least 670 people were killed and hundreds injured in a barrage of non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes in Pakistan in 2010 amid growing discontent over the operations.

A huge gathering of tribal elders have called for an immediate end to the ongoing non-UN-sanctioned drone attacks in the northwestern Pakistan. The tribal meeting in northwestern city of Peshawar expressed serious concern over civilian casualties in drone strikes, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday. Several prominent leaders of political and Islamic parties also […]

KARACHI/LAHORE: A complete shutter down strike is being observed all over the country today in connection with Tahafuz-e-Namose-e-Risalat. Routine life was suspended as shops and markets throughout the metropolis and in major cities remained closed and traffic remained thin, with public transport largely absent.

A delegation of three West African presidents who met with incumbent Cote d’Ivoire leader Laurent Gbagbo to deliver an ultimatum to step down or face force has left saying more meetings were needed.

Another US-led soldier has lost his life in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, taking the foreign forces’ death toll to 709 in this year. The soldier reportedly belonging to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan — known as ISAF — was killed in a bomb blast on Tuesday, according to an ISAF statement.