At least three people have been killed and many more injured after a car bomb exploded near a crowded bank in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Kabul, the capital, said that the blast took place near Kabul Bank at a time of the month when many police officers […]

MIRAMSHAH: A US drone strike in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt killed 15 militants on Monday, destroying a vehicle and a compound in North Waziristan, local security officials said.

At least 42 people have been killed and 72 injured after a powerful blast went off in Pakistan’s northwest tribal area of Bajaur Agency bordering Afghanistan.The explosion took place about 8:40 a.m. when a bomber detonated explosives in a large crowd of people gathering at a checkpoint near the office of the World Food Program […]

Pointing out towards the solution for going on peace crises in Sistan-Balochistan province of Iran, Shaikh Abdul Hameed requested the Iranian government that to overcome all the crises first of all it is absolutely necessary. And the rulers must have consultation with Islamic scholars, politicians and the tribal chiefs of all sects in order to […]

A Pakistani teenager is seeking to sue the CIA for damages after a non-UN-sanctioned US drone attack killed three of his relatives and led to his own disability. Sadaullah Wazir lost both his legs and an eye in the attack last year. The 17-year-old insists none of those killed (when) were linked to militants, Associated […]

An unmanned US drone has crashed in central Afghanistan following a number of similar coalition aircraft accidents in the war-ravaged country. The reason for the incident which happened in Tangi village in Maidan Wardak province on Wednesday night is not yet known, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Pakistani authorities have arrested two senior police officers for negligence of duty over former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Almost three years after Bhutto was killed in the city of Rawalpindi, Saud Aziz, city police chief at the time and Khurram Shahzad, a senior policeman, were arrested on Wednesday for their failure to protect Bhutto.

TEHRAN: The Iranian state-run television has been continuing sacrilege of a great companion of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) through a drama serial “Mukhatr” which presents the biography of “Mukhtar bin Abi Ubaid Thaqafi”.

At least five civilians have been killed by US-led foreign troops in southern Afghanistan, amid growing discontent over the rising number of civilian fatalities in the war-wracked country.

Sudan’s president said the country would adopt an Islamic constitution if the south split away after a referendum due next month, in a speech on Sunday.