At least 50 people have been killed and dozens more injured in two bomb blasts inside a government building in northwestern Pakistan. The blasts destroyed parts of a compound, leaving at least 50 people killed and many others wounded, a Press TV correspondent reported on Monday.
KABUL: An explosion outside a military base used by foreign forces in southeastern Afghanistan killed “some people” and wounded at least four Afghan soldiers on Sunday afternoon, an Afghan military source said.
The Taliban claim that they have killed five members of Afghan national police during an attack on a police checkpoint. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Afghan Islamic Press that their forces shot dead five policemen in the central Logar province on Saturday.
Islamic Civilization in the Mediterranean: an International Conference is being held from 1-4 December, 2010 at the Near East University, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus. The conference is organized jointly by OIC’s Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture and Near East University.
US President Barack Obama has told US troops at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan that they will have difficult days ahead during their deployment in the country.“Progress comes slow” and “there are going to be difficult days ahead,” Obama told the 3,850 troops at Bagram Air Base, a Press TV correspondent reported on Friday.
At least 150 civilians have been killed in fighting between the Nigerian military and armed militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta. The incident took place as Nigerian warplanes bombed a village near a militant camp and soldiers opened fire with machine guns, the Associated Press quoted human rights activists and witnesses as saying on Friday.
Indonesia is selecting thousands of unfortunate children living on the street across the world’s most populous Muslim nation to join Islamic boarding schools, locally known as Pesantren, under a new government’s program.
US diplomats and Hamid, Karzai, the Afghan president, criticised the role of UK troops in Afghanistan as “not up” to standard, according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
A man wearing an Afghan police uniform has opened fire on US-led troops in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least six foreigners and wounding several others.NATO says the incident happened during a training session and the shooter has also been killed.
At least six people, including two children, have been killed in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Bannu, a city in the northwest of Pakistan. According to officials, a suicide bomber blew himself up near a police van close to a police station, in the Milad park area, on Tuesday.