KABUL (Agencies) Eight American troops died in attacks in southern Afghanistan, including a car bombing and gunfight outside a police compound in Kandahar, officials said Wednesday as the Taliban push back against a coalition effort to secure the volatile region.

ZAHEDAN: The annual ceremony of the largest Sunni university “Darululoom Zahedan”, has been started at 8th July 2010 (26th of Rajab 1431) on Thursday morning, here in Zahedan, Iran.

MOGADISHU: At least 16 people were killed in fighting between rival factions in Mogadishu as chaos engulfed the Somali capital and spurred the war-torn country’s neighbours into action, officials said Tuesday.

Pakistan’s prime minister has said his government will organise a national conference on ways to combat terrorism.

Another US-led soldier has been killed in southern part of Afghanistan, bringing the death toll of foreign forces to 329 so far this year, NATO says.

TALESH: “Shaikh Qureshi Shaf’ei,” the preacher (khateeb) of Mohammedia Sunni mosque and the head of a Sunni school has been released after 6 months of being arrested on Tuesday 29th June 2010.

KARACHI: At least 12 people were killed by unknown assailants in Karachi in the past 24 hours, DawnNews reported. Gunmen shot and killed one man in Pak Colony’s Purana Golimar area. The victim, 40-year-old Mohammad Ejaz, was a resident of Orangi Town.

US-led forces in Afghanistan have killed at least three civilians as their new commander General David Petraeus makes his debut in Kabul.

At least five people have been killed in an attack by Taliban fighters on the office of a US aid contractor in northern Afghanistan.

At least 42 people have been killed and hundreds injured after suicide attacks struck a busy shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.