TRIPOLI (AFP) A Dutch boy was the sole survivor when a Libyan plane arriving from South Africa exploded on landing at Tripoli airport on Wednesday, killing 103 people, officials said.

As many as 55 Americans have been killed and 37 terribly injured with their three Chinook-like helicopters shot down in clashes with Taliban in Helmand’s Nowzad district through much of Monday, Taliban officials said.

Miranshah, PAKISTAN: United States drone aircraft on Tuesday fired more than a dozen missiles into Pakistan’s North Waziristan, a major al-Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary, killing at least 14 tribesmen, Pakistani security officials said.

MIRANSHAH: A US drone fired two missiles into a house in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on Sunday, killing at least 10 persons, local security officials said.

KABUL: The Taliban on Saturday announced a new nationwide campaign of attacks in Afghanistan, as President Hamid Karzai prepared for talks with US leaders on his embattled country’s future. The announcement, emailed to AFP, said the operation would begin on May 10 and would target diplomats, members of the Afghan parliament and foreign contractors as […]

KABUL (Reuters) – The Taliban have ordered mobile phone operators to shut down their networks during the night in a northern Afghan province, officials said on Thursday, a sign of the militants’ increasing influence in a once peaceful area.

Nigeria’s president has died after a long illness, an official at his office has said.

WASHINGTON: The foiled New York car bomb attack blamed on a Pakistani-American could be retaliation for US drone attacks on the Taliban, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi warned on Wednesday.

At least 12 people have been killed, including a provincial council member, during a Taliban attack on a government compound in southwestern Afghanistan, officials said.

MOGADISHU: Islamists on Sunday seized Somalia’s port town and major pirate hub of Harardhere, residents said, raising concerns for three international ships and 60 crew held there.