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Taliban militants killed a Pakistani soldier and wounded two others in the latest cross-border attack in the country`s ...

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Monday confirmed the death of US-Yemeni militant Anwar al-Awlaqi in a US air ...

A Palestinian militant was killed in northern Gaza near the border with Israel on Monday, the DFLP group and medics ...

Turkish police arrested two people after the death of seven illegal Afghan immigrants in a fire in an Istanbul shanty ...

Eleven Chinese were killed and two missing after their cargo boats were attacked in the golden triangle area of the ...

Forces of Libya`s new regime were on the verge of claiming full control of Moamer Kadhafi`s hometown Sirte after ...

Forces of Libya`s new rulers said they took control on Sunday of the airport in Bani Walid, one of the last two ...

The killing of US-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi has weakened Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, but the group ...

Yemen`s main oil export pipeline was blown up on Thursday in the Wadi Obeida region, east of Sanaa, a local tribal ...

Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer, whose simple but mystical imagery addresses themes of nature, history and death, won ...

Israeli police said on Thursday they have arrested a suspect in the arson attack on a mosque in northern Israel, after ...

Gunmen wounded a representative of Iraq`s top Shiite cleric as he was returning home from prayer in al-Qassim, south ...

Employment inspectors are probing a Spanish fruit company for allegedly requiring its female staff to wear a sign ...

The Taliban opened fire on a bus in southern Afghanistan Thursday killing two civilians, including a child, and ...

Palestine has won a first diplomatic victory in its quest for statehood as UNESCO`s executive committee backed its bid ...