Suicide bombers disguised as soldiers have stormed an court in western Afghanistan, killing at least 46 people in an attempt to free Taliban fighters standing trial, officials say.

Taliban’s reclusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar could contest the presidential elections, due in 2014, President Hamid Karzai told A German newspaper on Tuesday.

The Taliban militant group claims it has shot down a US drone in the Afghanistan’s eastern province of Parwan.

Pakistani youth would prefer Islamic law or military rule over democracy, a British Council survey suggests.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has said that he will release all political detainees, as tensions ease following recent agreements with South Sudan.

Thirteen children have been killed after a fire, apparently caused by an electrical fault, engulfed an Islamic school dormitory in Myanmar’s largest city.

Alluding to the ‘Islamic Republic Day’ in Iran, the leading Sunni scholar demanded the authorities on Friday, 29 March, to pay more attention to the nation’s demands and look at them how many of people have sympathy for “Islamic Republic”.

Malian soldiers backed by French fighter jets are battling fighters in Timbuktu after they used a car bomb as cover to infiltrate the northern desert city, sources say.

A United Nations official, Vijay Nambiar, has said that the houses and mosques of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have been targeted with “brutal efficiency” in recent attacks.

Taliban militants claim at least 40 US-led soldiers have been killed or injured in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province, Press TV repoted.