At least six Afghan civilians have been killed in a US-led air strike, which included two helicopters and two fixed-wing aircrafts, a government spokesman says. The attack occurred in the Rostaq district of Takhar, a relatively peaceful province in the north, Reuters reported on Thursday. According to spokesman for the provincial governor Faiz Mohammad Tawhidi, [...]

Two American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll of US troops killed in the Afghan war to 326 so far this year. According to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), two US soldiers died following separate militant attacks, one in the east Afghanistan, and the other in the south on Thursday. [...]

Multiple bomb explosions at a Muslim gathering in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore have left at least 28 people dead and 200 others wounded. Three bombs went off in quick succession during a crowded mourning procession in the Karbla Game Shah area of Lahore on Wednesday, a Press TV correspondent reported. “The three explosions [...]

Amid Kuwait’s plans to buy Patriot missiles from the US, the country’s defense minister says Kuwait will not allow its soil to be used for striking other countries. “We do not purchase arms to launch attacks on others and we do not accept attacks to be launched from our territories against other countries,” AFP quoted [...]

The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People has criticized international organizations for failing to administer aid to flooded Pakistan, urging Muslims’ quick assistance to help recover the country. “Unfortunately, international organizations have not carried out their duties well to render services to disaster-stricken people, which itself needs to be analyzed and scrutinized,” Imam [...]

The American death toll in Afghanistan this year has reached the highest annual rate since the start of the US-led invasion of the country nearly nine years ago. A total of 323 US soldiers have so far been killed in Afghanistan during 2010, compared to 317 in 2009, according to figures published by the independent [...]

A strike by US-led forces has claimed the lives of three Afghan civilians, including two women, and left three other civilians injured in the country’s restive south. In a statement released on Wednesday, NATO forces admitted to killing two women in their attack the day before on suspected Taliban militants in the Musa Qala district [...]

Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar is set to visit flood-ravaged Pakistan on Thursday to assess the extent of damage in the country. “The interior minister, along with a group of representatives of the Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, as well [...]

China has begun naval exercises in the disputed Yellow Sea amid growing tension with the US and South Korea over their upcoming joint military drills there. The Chinese military launched a “live ammunition drill” on Wednesday in the sea between China and the Korean peninsula, Xinhua news agency reported. According to the report, many of [...]

Pakistani jets kill at least 55 civilians and destroy their hideouts in the Khyber tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Tuesday, security officials said. Pakistani air force jets and helicopter gunships pounded suspected militants hideouts in Nare Baba and Sheen Drand villages in Teerah Valley on Tuesday and killed thirty militants, local officials said. Pakistani Intelligence [...]

Officials in Pakistan have ordered thousands of residents in a number of towns in southern parts of the country to evacuate as floodwaters submerge new areas. Floodwaters are currently threatening the Pakistani towns of Jati and Choohar Jamali, forcing more than 100,000 people to flee their homes. “We are making efforts to save the two [...]

At least six more US-led soldiers have lost their lives in separate incidents in the troubled eastern and southern areas of Afghanistan. NATO issued a statement on Tuesday, announcing that four American soldiers were killed in a bombing attack in eastern parts of Afghanistan. In a separate incident, a fifth US soldier died in a [...]

Japan and the US have missed a deadline to resolve the fate of a controversial US military airbase on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. Tokyo and Washington were due to come up with a plan to relocate the US Marine Corps base by August 31st. Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said options will be [...]

South Korea has announced plans to hold a joint naval exercise with the US in the Yellow Sea amid China’s decision to stage a military maneuver in the same area. The anti-submarine drill will take place off the west coast of the Korean peninsula from September 5 to September 9. “Now we’re coordinating the final [...]

Iran has rejected reports that the survivors of Pakistan’s devastating floods have thronged behind Iran’s borders, trying to enter the country. “We have not received any news concerning the surge of flood-hit people of Pakistan to Iran’s borders and the security officials of the Interior Ministry have not confirmed the case whatsoever,” Iranian Foreign Ministry [...]

Nine suspected militants trying to sneak into Indian-administered Kashmir have been killed in a gunfight with Indian troops on the de facto border, officials say. “The army has foiled a major infiltration attempt by killing nine militants who were trying to infiltrate into Kashmir from across the Line of Control (LoC),” army spokesman J.S. Brar [...]

At least 22 people have been injured in Indian-administered Kashmir after police forces fired live rounds at thousands of stone-throwing protesters following the death of a nine-year-old boy. As the news of the young boy’s death spread in the area, thousands of people, including those living in neighboring towns and villages, held angry street protests [...]

Violent clashes between government security forces and demonstrators continue unabated in the Indian-controlled Kashmir. Several people have been wounded on Monday after police opened fire to disperse the protesters in the capital city of Srinagar, AFP reported. One of the wounded is said to be in a critical condition. The man is said to be [...]

Seven more American soldiers have been killed and several others injured in another deadly day for US troops in war-torn Afghanistan. The soldiers were slain in two separate bomb attacks in the country’s volatile south, NATO said in a statement. It said five troopers were killed in one of the attacks. The statement did not [...]

As the month-long floods in Pakistan continue to devastate more areas, an Iranian lawmaker says the Islamic Republic can play a more effective role in dispatching aid. “The Islamic Republic of Iran can play a more significant role in sending relief aid to the flood-hit Pakistani people,” a member of the National Security and Foreign [...]