At least four personnel of bomb disposal unit (BDU) were killed and two others injured when a remote-controlled explosive device targeted their vehicle in Badhabera area in the outskirt of Peshawar on Monday.

Australian combat troops have completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monday marking the end of the nation’s longest war, which has left 40 Australians dead.

Dozens of people, including 14 children, have been killed by Syrian army air raids on rebel districts of the northern city of Aleppo, activists groups said.

Hamas condemned on Saturday the Bengali authorities for executing Islamic leader Sheikh Abdul Quader Mollah, the assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, last Thursday.

The latest U.S. drone strike in Pakistan killed at least four suspected insurgents in the federally-administered North Waziristan tribal agency on Saturday despite protest continuous in the country for last 15 days.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said he has little hope for planned peace talks over the Syrian conflict.

The state funeral for Nelson Mandela has begun in his ancestral village of Qunu, ending a week of commemorations for the man whose tortured struggle for freedom helped end white-minority rule, paving the way for him to become South Africa’s first black president.

A new UN report states that in addition to the widely publicised chemical weapons attack on August 21 near Damascus, such weapons were likely used in four other locations in Syria between March and late August.

North Korea has executed the uncle of its leader Kim Jong-un days after he was dismissed, state news agency KCNA announced, branding the once-powerful Jang Song-thaek a “traitor.”

Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani took oath on Thursday as the 21st Chief Justice of Pakistan.