KABUL (Reuters) – The Taliban have ordered mobile phone operators to shut down their networks during the night in a northern Afghan province, officials said on Thursday, a sign of the militants’ increasing influence in a once peaceful area.

Nigeria’s president has died after a long illness, an official at his office has said.

WASHINGTON: The foiled New York car bomb attack blamed on a Pakistani-American could be retaliation for US drone attacks on the Taliban, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi warned on Wednesday.

At least 12 people have been killed, including a provincial council member, during a Taliban attack on a government compound in southwestern Afghanistan, officials said.

MOGADISHU: Islamists on Sunday seized Somalia’s port town and major pirate hub of Harardhere, residents said, raising concerns for three international ships and 60 crew held there.

A roadside mine explosion tore through a group of US foot patrol as they were walking to their base in Arghandab district of Kandahar province, killing or wounding at least 7 American soldiers on Sunday afternoon.

ISLAMABAD/NEW YORK: Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud vowed to attack major U.S. cities in two purported new videos released months after his reported killing in a U.S. missile strike, as investigators were combing through evidence on Monday in the hunt for suspects in a failed car bombing in New York’s busy Times Square, after President […]

An attack on a mosque in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has claimed the lives of at least 10 worshippers and wounded more people, reports pointed out.

Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader believed to have been killed in a US drone attack earlier this year, may still be alive, Pakistani intelligence officials have said.

PESHAWAR: The mysterious and until now unknown militant organisation, the Asian Tigers, executed former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official Khalid Khwaja near Mir Ali town in North Waziristan on Friday after holding him hostage for more than a month.