LOS ANGELES : A US soldier convicted of killing five of his colleagues in Iraq in May 2009 was sentenced to life behind bars Thursday and dishonorably discharged. Army Sergeant John Russell was convicted earlier this week over the murders at a clinic for soldiers suffering from war-related stress ...

BERLIN :-A German soldier was killed and another wounded in an attack by insurgents in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, the German army said. German special forces had been supporting an Afghan operation near the northern city of Baghlan when insurgents opened fire on the Afghan and Nato ...

peshawar - One security personnel and four militants were killed in a clash when militants ambushed a security check post in Ladha area of South Waziristan tribal region on Friday.According to security sources, one security personnel was killed during the attack whereas retaliatory action by ...

karachi - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has hailed the address of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani clearing the ambiguities regarding general elections and role of the Armed Forces.In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Altaf Hussain said that Kayani ...

LOS ANGELES : AUSsoldier pleaded guilty Monday to killing five of his colleagues inIraqfour years ago, in a plea deal to escape a death sentence, a military spokesman said. Army Sergeant John Russell was accused of the May 2009 murders at a clinic for soldiers suffering from war-related stress ...

LOS ANGELES  - A US soldier has been jailed for 16 years for attempting to sell military secrets to a woman he thought was a Russian spy, officials said Tuesday. Military policeman William Millay was also dishonorably discharged as part of a plea deal after admitting charges including ...

PESHAWAR  - Fifteen militants and one soldier were killed on Thursday when the Pakistani military mounted another operation in a week of fighting designed to seize control of the Tirah Valley, the army said.The military has faced fierce resistance from the Taliban and its allies in the Khyber ...

Fifteen militants and one soldier were killed on Thursday when the  military mounted another operation in a week of fighting designed to seize control of a remote but strategic valley in the northwest, the army said.The military has faced fierce resistance from the Taliban and its allies in ...

KABUL - An Afghan teenager killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck while he played with a group of local children, officials said Monday.    The killing comes as the monthly US death toll rose sharply in March to 14 with the start of the spring ...

KHYBER AGENCY A Frontier Corps (FC) soldier was killed and his colleague sustained bullet injuries when unknown gunmen opened fire on them in the Moro area in Bazaar Zakha Khel in Tirah valley, official sources said on Monday. The sources said the two troops were busy fetching potable water from a ...

KABUL  - A member of the Afghan army shot dead a British soldier, officials said Tuesday, in the latest “insider attack” to undermine the US-led mission training Afghans to take over from Nato troops next year.The attack came as Afghan President Hamid Karzai prepared for talks in ...

Staff Reporter/AgenciesSOUTH WAZIRISTAN – Security forces killed six militants, besides injuring 13 others in retaliation to an attack on a check post in South Waziristan Agency on Friday in which one soldiers was also killed.According to officials, militants attacked a security check post ...

PARACHINAR  - One securityman was killed and 14 others sustained injuries in a bomb blast in Sadda Bazaar of Kurram Agency on Wednesday. The blast happened in Ajab Khan Chowk of Sadda Bazaar which also destroyed the vehicle of Political Moharrar Mira Jan. The slain soldier was identified as ...

LONDON (AFP) - A British soldier serving on the frontline in Afghanistan has given birth at the Nato base where she is posted - days after it came under attack from the Taliban, the defence ministry said. The woman, who gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday at Camp Bastion, in Helmand Province, did ...

KABUL - The US soldier accused of an Afghan village massacre that further strained already-frayed Afghan-US ties was charged with 17 premeditated murders Friday, although he may not be tried for two years. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, was also accused of ...

SEATTLE, Washington - The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghans during a shooting rampage was described by those who knew him as “level-headed” and may have snapped under stress, his lawyers said.The suspect, identified as 38-year-old US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, had served ...

WASHINGTON - US officials Friday identified the soldier accused of killing 16 civilians, including women and children, in Afghanistan as Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales.Media reports Friday cited US officials, whose names were not reported, as saying Bales, 38, was flown from Kuwait to a US ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials Friday identified the soldier accused of killing 16 civilians, including women and children, in Afghanistan as Army Staff sergeant Robert Bales.Media reports Friday cited U.S. officials, whose names were not reported, as saying Bales, 38, was flown from Kuwait to a U.S. ...

QUETTA – One soldier was killed and his companion wounded in a firing incident in Awaran area of Balochistan on Monday while Quetta police recovered a body here. According to reports reaching here, unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate firing on Habibullah, a solider and his companion ...

 A US soldier of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was detained on Sunday in connection with shooting dead at least 17 Afghan civilians in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said.The incident took place on Sunday morning when a US soldier opened fire at four houses ...

Two NATO soldiers were shot dead on Thursday by two Afghans, including a man believed to be a soldier, NATO said, an attack that is likely to raise further questions about the future of the country’s struggling security forces. The killings in south Afghanistan came after two senior U.S. ...

TIRANA  - One Albanian soldier was shot dead and another lay in a coma after Afghan police opened fire on them near the southern city of Kandahar, Albania’s defence ministry said Monday, revising an earlier toll.The ministry had earlier reported that two soldiers had died. The soldiers ...

A clash between Pakistani troops and Taliban on Thursday killed a soldier and seven militants in the country’s troubled northwestern tribal area, a security official said. Fighting erupted after Pakistani troops launched a search operation in a bazaar where Taliban militants are frequently ...

KABUL  - A man in an Afghan army uniform shot dead a soldier with Nato-led forces in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman said Wednesday, just days after four French soldiers died in a similar shooting.The latest incident happened on Tuesday, Nato’s International Security Assistance Force ...

KHYBER AGENCY - Eight militants of Tehreek-e-Taliban, Tariq group, were killed while a Frontier Crops (FC) personnel was martyred in a clash between the militants and FC on Sunday.Sources said the security forces raided a house in Karamna, area of tehsil Landi Kotal, as they received information of ...

LONDON (AFP) - A British court on Monday jailed a former soldier for 70 days for desecrating the Holy Quran. Andrew Ryan, an unemployed 32-year-old, stole the copy of the Holy book Quran from a library and desecrated it. Ryan, who pleaded guilty to religiously aggravated harassment and theft at an ...

Afghan Canadian Omar Khadr, the only child soldier and last western prisoner held at Guantanamo, has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for killing a US medic in Afghanistan in 2002. Twenty-four-year-old Khadr, whose father was a close aide of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, was 15 when he was ...

A British soldier died Saturday in a firefight in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence in London said. The soldier from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment "was killed during an exchange of fire with insurgents in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province," a statement from ...

LONDON (AFP) A British soldier has been killed in a blast in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence announced Tuesday, bringing the countrys death toll to 325 since operations began there in 2001. The soldier from 36 Engineer Regiment was working with a team searching for roadside bombs ...

ORAKZAI AGENCY At least 15 militants and a security man were killed in an armed clash erupted between security forces and the militants in the Upper Orakzai Agency on Monday. According to sources, 15 militants were killed and three others injured in a clash with the security personnel in the Upper ...