MIRANSHAH: The death toll of drone strike in North Waziristan has reached to 13 whereas 12 others wounded in the incident.
At least 39 people have been killed by a suicide bomber at a wedding party in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province. More than 70 people were injured when the blast occurred on Wednesday night as men sat down to eat at the celebration.
ISLAMABAD: Gunmen attacked trucks carrying supplies to Nato forces in Afghanistan, gutting several dozen vehicles in an inferno and killing seven people in a brazen assault near Islamabad, police said Wednesday.
Seven US, one French and two Australian soldiers were killed on June 7, 2010, in separate militant attacks in Afghanistan.
KABUL (Agencies) – Ten NATO soldiers, including at least one American, were killed on Monday in shooting and bomb attacks in war-torn southern Afghanistan, the NATO said late on Monday.
Afghanistan’s interior minister and the head of the intelligence service have resigned over Wednesday’s attack on a peace conference.
Afghan political and religious leaders have called for the start of a peace process to end conflict with the Taliban, offering the country’s president a mandate to open negotiations with the group.
More than 118 people have been killed after a fire engulfed several buildings in the centre of Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, according to government officials.
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has opened a three-day peace conference in the capital, Kabul, amid rocket fire and at least one suicide bombing.
The US government has said that it killed Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, an Egyptian man described as al-Qaeda’s “number three” official.