KABUL: The number of US troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban’s momentum.

For more than half a century, the Mossad has been blamed for numerous killings around the world, and is often at the centre of conspiracy theories, including those surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 1998 Lockerbie bombing and the 911 attacks in the US.

CAIRO — Indians, Muslims and non-Muslims, are championing a unique and ambitious campaign to spread the true message of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).

Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul was a military commander in the Pakistani Army in the 1980s, and served as the head of the country’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from 1987 to 1989.

The first Afro-American president has come to power in the US at a time when the world is suffering at the hands of the terror wave spurred by the global “war on terrorism” that was launched by his predecessor in response to the 9/11 attacks.