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38,000 internally displaced persons in Pakistan return homes: UN

The United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday that 38,000 people, who had been displaced as the result of fighting ...

US drone strikes kill 18 in Pakistan

US missiles killed 18 militants in Pakistan`s tribal district of South Waziristan on Monday, destroying compounds and ...

18 killed, over 30 injured in suicide blast in Pakistan

At least 18 people were killed and some 30 others injured in a suicide blast that hit a bakery Sunday night in ...

Pakistan bakery blast kills 18: officials

At least 18 people were killed on Sunday in a bomb blast at a bakery in northwest Pakistan, police and government ...

11 held after attack on Italian base in Afghanistan

Afghan authorities said Sunday they had captured 11 people accused of carrying out a deadly attack on an Italian-led ...

Helicopter crashes in Afghanistan`s east, two troops killed

Two service members from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed when a helicopter crashed in a volatile eastern ...

Blast at Afghan university kills two: police

Two students were killed in a blast at a university in Kandahar on Saturday, one of the most troubled places in ...

Taliban border attack kills 34 in Pakistan

Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban besieged a Pakistani checkpost on the Afghan border for a second day Thursday, ...

Seven policemen killed in checkpoint attack in NW Pakistan

At least seven policemen were killed in a checkpoint attack launched Wednesday morning by unknown militants in Dir ...

Pakistan pm announces probe into bin Laden raid

Islamabad (ANTARA News/AFP - Pakistan`s prime minister Tuesday ordered an independent commission to investigate the ...

Obama picks Dempsey as top U.S. military officer

President Barack Obama on Monday nominated General Martin Dempsey, who commanded troops in the Iraq war, as the top ...

Two Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Two Australian soldiers have been killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan, the Defence Department said Tuesday, ...

NATO air strike kills 14 civilians: Afghan officials

At least 14 civilians were killed and six wounded in a NATO air strike in southern Afghanistan, the local authorities ...

Two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan: ministry

Two British soldiers were killed by a homemade bomb while on patrol in southern Afghanistan, defence officials in ...

Germany says two soldiers killed in Afghanistan

German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Saturday said two German soldiers were killed in a Taliban suicide ...