MINGORA - Nearly 70 persons including 40 militants, 11 security forces personnel and eight civilians were killed and 45 injured in three acts of violence in Swat District on Saturday. The officials said that the security forces during an
UNITED NATIONS - The top U.N. official in Afghanistan Saturday called for a thorough investigation of reports that large numbers of civilians were killed during an international military operation in the far west of the country. Kai Eide,
COLOMBO (AFP) - Twenty-two Tamil rebels have died in fresh ground battles in war-torn northern Sri Lanka as soldiers move closer to the insurgents’ political stronghold, the military said Saturday. Troops on Friday moved nearer the