Suspected US drone ‘kills three militants’ in Pakistan
A US drone attack has killed at least three suspected militants in north-west Pakistan, intelligence officials say. They say the drone fired two missiles close to a compound in the town of Miranshah in the North Waziristan tribal region, near the Afghan border. North and South Waziristan are regularly targeted by drone missiles. The US says the region More...
National security: Kayani calls emergency meeting
RAWALPINDI: An emergency meeting of Corps Commanders was called by the Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani in Rawalpindi on Sunday. The meeting, which is currently underway, was called in the wake More...
Obama UN speech sparks angry Palestinian protests
RAMALLAH: Angry Palestinians on Thursday protested in the streets of Ramallah and Gaza after a UN speech by US President Barack Obama which was seen as unashamedly pro-Israel. More than 1,000 Palestinians carrying More...
Pirates may be holding British Tourist
NWI – A British tourist kidnapped in Kenya is believed to be held by pirates in Somalia, a security official told CNN. Judith Tebbutt was abducted by armed men from a luxury safari lodge in Kiwayu, near the More...
Taliban Siege in Central Kabul Ends
Afghan and coalition forces Wednesday ended Kabul’s day-long insurgency, killing the remaining militants who attacked the U.S. Embassy and NATO, officials said. The insurgents, in a brazen assault and standoff More...
Kabul Rocked Gunfight, Explosions and Firing In Kabul
An ongoing bomb and gun attack is rocking the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, with a string of blasts targeting the US embassy and Nato’s Isaf headquarters. A string of loud blasts was heard and insurgents More...
Libyan woman Helped NATO Against Gadhafi
TRIPOLI – The NATO bombing campaign which fatally weakened Moammar Gadhafi’s rule had a secret asset: a 24-year-old Libyan woman who spent months spying on military facilities and passing on the details More...
China’s war on terror widens Xinjiang’s ethnic divide
URUMQI, China: The filthy back alleys and packed mosques of the remote far western Chinese city of Urumqi are one of the more obscure front lines in the US-backed war on terror, launched after the September 11 More...
Protesters attack Israel embassy: Egypt sends troops after
CAIRO: Egypt declared a state of high alert Saturday as police clashed with protesters who raided a building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo, prompting Washington to call for protection of the mission. Hundreds More...
Musharraf vows return to Pakistan
Former Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said he is determined to return to Pakistan by March 2012, even if he is arrested. “Let them arrest me… I’ll [still] go back,” he told More...