MIRANSHAH: A US drone fired two missiles into a house in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on Sunday, killing at least 10 persons, local security officials said.

KABUL: The Taliban on Saturday announced a new nationwide campaign of attacks in Afghanistan, as President Hamid Karzai prepared for talks with US leaders on his embattled country’s future. The announcement, emailed to AFP, said the operation would begin on May 10 and would target diplomats, members of the Afghan parliament and foreign contractors as […]

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.