At least 18 people have been killed, including eight Afghan civilians and six Nato troops, in a suicide car-bomb attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul, police say.

ISLAMABAD: A suicide bomber attacked a police van in Dera Ismail Khan on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including a DSP and three other policemen, a doctor said.

A commercial passenger plane with 43 passengers and crew on board has crashed in northern Afghanistan, the country’s Interior Ministry says.

ZABOL: The Iranian authorities have released Shaikh Hafiz Abdul Rashid, imam and preacher of Friday prayers for Sunnis in Zabul city on bail after being detained six days.

KANDAHAR: In Kandahar Arghandab district Taliban shot down an American helicopter in the morning hours of 16th May, Taliban officials said.

ZAHEDAN/MASHHAD: Sheikh Abdul-Maieed Ismail Zahi, teacher at Darululoom Zahedan University was summoned to the Special Court of Scholars in Mashhad city.

ZAHEDAN: Ten days leave has been given to the five young Sunnis who were sentenced by a local court after being arrested in the case of destroying Islamic school “Darululoom Imam Abu Hanifa, Adheemabad” of Sunnis.

KHARTOUM: Officials say that clashes between Sudan’s army and Darfur’s most powerful rebel group have left more than 160 people dead.

Parachinar, PAKISTAN (Reuters) Suspected militants dressed as policemen kidnapped about 60 people in troubled northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, government and police officials said.

ZAHEDAN: A competition of Hifz (memorizing Quran by heart) and reciting Qura’n with the best sound (Tajweed) was held at Darululoom Zahedan University.