ISLAMABAD: Muslim countries, organizations and individuals have pledged nearly $1 billion in cash and relief supplies to help Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the nation’s history, the head of a group of Islamic states said Sunday.

Up to 30 Taliban fighters, including suicide bombers, have attacked two US bases in Afghanistan’s east. At least 13 Taliban fighters were killed and several Nato soldiers wounded in the pre-dawn attacks on Saturday, officials told Al Jazeera.

More than 175,000 people have fled Pakistan’s southern city of Thatta, leaving it virtually empty, as flood waters threatened to submerge the city’s outskirts.

Two Spanish police trainers and their interpreter have died in Afghanistan after being shot by their driver.

Brunei’s Youths yesterday were reminded to occupy themselves during this holy month of Ramadan with the beneficial act of Quran reading, as well as other religious activities.

MOGADISHU: Al-Shabaab fighters shot dead 30 people, including six members of parliament, in a suicide attack on a Mogadishu hotel Tuesday, Somalia’s deputy prime minister said.

MIRAMSHAH: At least 12 people, four women among them, were killed and 15 others injured in two drone strikes in parts of the North Waziristan tribal region on Monday.

KABUL: Attacks by insurgents killed five foreign troops in Afghanistan on Monday, including two Americans, two French marines and a Hungarian soldier.

SUKKUR: About 150,000 people were forced to move to higher ground as floodwaters from a freshly swollen Indus River submerged dozens more towns and villages in the south, a government spokesman said Saturday.

Hundreds of villagers have blocked a highway in eastern Afghanistan to protest a night raid by Nato and Afghan soldiers that left two people dead.A statement from the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said two “Taliban insurgents” were killed in the raid in a district near Jalalabad.