US officials believe that the intelligence agency of ally Pakistan, which receives billions of dollars in aid from Washington, has been secretly supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan, leaked records say.

Suspected US drones have fired missiles into a compound used by anti-government fighters in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt, killing at least 16 people, officials said.

Four US soldiers have been killed in a Taliban bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, a NATO statement says.

Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leadership has welcomed a decision from the International Court of Justice ruling that the territory’s declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 is legal.

KARACHI: At least seven people were killed in incidents of targeted killing in various areas of Karachi late on Tuesday, DawnNews reported.

Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has told delegates at an international conference in Kabul that he wants Afghan forces to take over security across the country in four years.

Taliban fighters have freed 14 inmates from a jail in western Afghanistan after staging a daring prison break, police have said.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for an attack near the heavily fortified US-run Bagram Airbse, saying the incident killed 12 American troops.

KHARTOUM: Sudan’s army said it has killed more than 300 fighters from Darfur’s rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in recent clashes in which 75 of its own soldiers also died, state media reported on Saturday.

Two American soldiers and four British troops have been killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan over the past 48 hours, amid a surge in violence in the country.