Al-Qaeda’s number two Ayman Al-Zawahiri has been named a new leader of the militant group, succeeding Osama Bin Laden, who was killed in a US raid.“The general leadership of Al-Qaeda group…announces that Sheikh Dr. Ayman Zawahri, may God give him success, has assumed responsibility for command of the group,” Al-Qaeda said in a statement posted […]

Abu Bakar Bashir, the controversial Indonesian cleric, has been jailed for 15 years on charges he helped plan and fund a camp of fighters in the western Aceh province which aimed to kill the country’s president.

At least 10 people have been killed and several others have been injured in two unauthorized US drone attacks on Pakistan’s troubled northwestern tribal region.

Pakistan has arrested five alleged informants for the CIA who helped in the US raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in northern Pakistan in May, US media report.

Taliban have denied responsibility for twin massive blasts in northwestern Pakistan, blaming foreign secret agencies for the bombings that killed 39 people.

Taliban militants in Afghanistan’s eastern Wardak province have destroyed more than 20 NATO tankers carrying fuel to US-led soldiers stationed in the war-ravaged country.

Two French soldiers have been killed and another seriously wounded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan.French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said in a statement on Friday that a flight lieutenant died of his injuries after a Gazelle chopper crashed about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Bagram in northern Afghanistan, AFP reported.

With only three weeks left before US military forces are scheduled to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan, the debate over the size and pace of that withdrawal has become increasingly intense.On one hand, the Pentagon, backed by prominent neo-conservatives and other hawks, insists that the 18-month-old “surge” of 30,000 US troops has turned the strategic tide […]

Pakistani authorities have ordered an investigation into the killing of an unarmed young man by the country’s paramilitary forces in the port city of Karachi.“The probe into the matter will ensure transparency, and the findings of the JIT (the Joint Investigation Team) will be made public and the investigation will be done in a transparent […]

A barrage of non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes have killed at least 18 people and wounded several others in Pakistan’s South Waziristan’s tribal region near the Afghan border.In the first strike, the US drone fired two missiles on a house in Shalam Raghzai area in the town of Wana in northwestern Pakistan, killing seven people and […]