A roadside mine explosion tore through a group of US foot patrol as they were walking to their base in Arghandab district of Kandahar province, killing or wounding at least 7 American soldiers on Sunday afternoon.

ISLAMABAD/NEW YORK: Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud vowed to attack major U.S. cities in two purported new videos released months after his reported killing in a U.S. missile strike, as investigators were combing through evidence on Monday in the hunt for suspects in a failed car bombing in New York’s busy Times Square, after President […]

An attack on a mosque in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has claimed the lives of at least 10 worshippers and wounded more people, reports pointed out.

Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader believed to have been killed in a US drone attack earlier this year, may still be alive, Pakistani intelligence officials have said.

PESHAWAR: The mysterious and until now unknown militant organisation, the Asian Tigers, executed former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official Khalid Khwaja near Mir Ali town in North Waziristan on Friday after holding him hostage for more than a month.

A prominent Afghan tribal leader who spoke of his fears of assassination by the Taliban has been killed near the southern city of Kandahar.

A suicide bomber has attacked a security checkpoint in the northwest of Pakistan, killing at least four policemen and wounding another 12 people.A religious leader and a woman were among those injured in Wednesday’s attack.

At least three people have been killed and 35 others injured after a cache of explosives detonated near the Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.

The US military has told Al Jazeera that it is negotiating with foreign governments to take non-Afghan prisoners from its controversial prison at the Bagram airbase outside Kabul, the Afghan capital.

Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan’s incumbent president, has won another term after the country’s first multi-party presidential poll in 24 years.