Taliban militants say they have launched a missile attack on the biggest US-led military base in the troubled western Afghanistan.According to a Taliban spokesman, the Taliban militants shelled a military airport in Shindand town in Herat Province, a Press TV correspondent reported.
A number of blasts have been heard from apparent NATO missile strikes targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in the capital, Tripoli, witnesses have said.
The death toll from two days of heavy fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants in the southern city of Kandahar has risen to 23.The fighting broke out after the Taliban unleashed a major assault on government buildings. Reports say militants have also entered an Afghan army base and a school.
TUNIS – In a bid to quell angry protests, Tunisia declared an overnight curfew in and around the capital starting from Saturday, May 7, stirring protesters anger who accused the interim administration of suppressing their freedoms.
ZAHEDAN: Celebrating over the assassination of Osama bin Laden proves lack of sagacity and wisdom, violence can not be stopped by elimination of some one, but such powers must change their barbaric and graceless policies, Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunna pointed in his latest Friday sermon in Zahedan.
ZAHEDAN- The annual conference of Sunni students belonging to different universities of Iran was held in Zahedan, south east of Iran, on Thursday, 5 May.
Al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of its leader, Osama bin Laden, and said in an online posting that it will continue to launch attacks on the West.The group said it would not deviate from the path of armed struggle and that bin Laden’s blood “is more precious to us and to every Muslim than to […]
Moro Muslim group on Friday said it was forced to give up an option of independence in talks with Philippines after Muslim Malaysia threatened to stop facilitating peace talks.
KERMANSHAH- The key leader of “Maktab-e-Qur’an Movement of Kurdistan”, Shaikh Saifullah Husaini has been released after being in custody 30 months in “Dizelabad” jail of Kermanshah, west of the country.
US officials were concerned that Pakistan could jeopardise the Osama bin Laden operation and “might alert the targets,” if Islamabad took part in the mission, Leon Panetta, the CIA director, has said.