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Taliban kill 8 police with insider help: govt official

Eight Afghan police were killed early Wednesday when Taliban militants apparently helped by an insider overran their ...

New Zealand SAS soldier killed in Afghanistan: PM

A New Zealand special forces soldier was shot dead in Afghanistan while taking part in an operation against insurgents ...

Australian women allowed to combat

Australian women will be allowed to serve in front line combat roles, including as special forces soldiers in ...

Terrorists now operate individually: Intelligence chief

The Chief of Indonesia`s State Intelligence Agency (BIN), Sutanto, said terrorism was now being carried out ...

Iran`s Ahmadinejad attacks west, prompts walk-out

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flayed the West on Thursday for a catalogue of misdeeds, but his address to the ...

Twenty-three Myanmarese apply for asylum seeker status

Twenty-three Myanmarese have applied for asylum seeker status to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees ...

Afghan peace council head killed in Kabul

Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and head of the council tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to ...

British soldier shot dead in Afghanistan: ministry

A British Royal Marine was killed after coming under small arms fire while on foot patrol in Helmand Province, ...

Battle in Kabul heightens Afghan security fears

A deadly 19-hour Taliban assault on Kabul that turned its most heavily secured district into a battle zone has ...

Indian Journalists shot dead in Mumbai

A senior journalist was shot dead by four unidentified persons in suburban Powai in Mumbai, capital of Maharashtra ...

Afghanistan, Pakistan to jointly work for reconciliation

Afghanistan and Pakistan Saturday expressed their commitment to an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned process of ...

US foresees $46 billion in 2011 military sales

The United States plans to export $46.1 billion in weapons this year, nearly doubling its 2010 figures, officials said ...

Slain Pakistani reporter awarded journalism prize

Pakistani investigative reporter Syed Saleem Shahzad has been posthumously awarded an Italian journalism prize after ...

Canada to pull out of NATO air surveillance

Canadian Forces will soon announce their withdrawal from a key NATO air surveillance program as part of cost-cutting ...

1,000 Al-Qaeda fighters still in Iraq: Panetta

CIA chief Leon Panetta told lawmakers Thursday that 1,000 Al-Qaeda fighters are still operating in Iraq and said US ...