MIRANSHAH: Three US drone attacks killed 18 people in North Waziristan on Saturday, intelligence officials said. The United States has widened pilotless drone aircraft missile strikes against al Qaeda-linked militants in Pakistan’s northwest, with 21 attacks in September alone, the highest number in a single month on record.

KABUL: A US-led airstrike has killed at least 15 people in northeastern Afghanistan amid growing discontent over the rising number of civilian deaths in the war-torn country.

An amateur video posted on a social networking site appears to show Pakistani troops unlawfully killing six young men, raising fresh concerns over the conduct of US-backed Pakistani forces in their battle against Taliban-allied groups.

At least three people have been killed and five others injured when unknown militants blew up 40 NATO containers in southern Pakistan.

The North African wing of al-Qaeda on Thursday released photographs of seven hostages held in Niger, the first since the group was kidnapped earlier this month.

Seven servicemen with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have lost their lives in a militant attack in volatile southern Afghanistan.

Pakistani authorities have stopped NATO supply trucks in northwest Pakistan following a helicopter attack by US-led troops in a tribal region, officials say.

The deputy governor of the eastern Ghazni province in Afghanistan has been killed in a suicide bombing along with his son and two bodyguards.Mohammad Kazim Allahyar was on his way to work on Tuesday morning near the Ghazni airport when a man riding a motorcycle behind his car detonated a bomb, Delawar Zahid, the provincial […]

ISLAMABAD: Former minister, judge Federal Shariah Court judge and president International Islamic University (IIUI) Dr Mehmood Ahmed Ghazi died of cardiac arrest heart here early Sunday. He was 60.

WASHINGTON: US attack helicopters have killed more than 30 people inside Pakistan, diplomatic sources told Dawn on Sunday. US military sources say that all 30 – killed during a hot pursuit on Friday – were Haqqani Network fighters.