A bomb targeting a prominent lawmaker in Kabul on Tuesday killed three civilians and wounded 24 other people, police said.The member of parliament escaped unhurt, aides and police said."Three civilians were killed and 24 others, including some guards, are wounded," Mohammad Zahir, the CID chief of ...

BEIRUT A ground-to-ground missile was fired on a town in northern Syria at dawn on Sunday and killed at least four civilians, two of them children, a watchdog reported.Anti-regime activists of the Aleppo Media Centre said the missile, which slammed into a residential area of Tal Rifaat, was a Scud, ...

MOGADISHU - A nine-man suicide commando blasted its way into Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, some blowing up their explosives vests while others sprayed gunfire in a rampage that left 29 civilians dead, while a separate bomb attack killed five more.The Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militant group ...

GHAZNI  - A Nato air strike killed four Afghan police and two civilians on Thursday, Afghan officials said.A spokesman for the US-led Nato force in Kabul told AFP that the military was checking the information. The attack happened after Taliban insurgents attacked a local police post in ...

A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Afghanistan's strategic Kapisa province on Friday, killing at least five civilians and wounding 15, officials said.No NATO troops were killed or injured in the attack in a village in Tagab district in the province, northeast of the capital Kabul, a ...

UNITED NATIONS - The deepening violence in Syria is making it increasingly difficult for displaced civilians to find refuge, the UN humanitarian agency said Monday, warning that insecurity is hampering efforts to provide the population with access to basic services such as food and water and ...

The UN mission in Afghanistan has reported that a record number of civilians were killed in the war-torn, foreign-occupied country in 2011, marking the fifth consecutive year the death toll has risen. In its annual report, the mission revealed that 3021 civilians were killed in 2011, up eight ...

WASHINGTON (Online) Missile attacks by US drone aircraft in northwest Pakistan since 2004 have killed as many as 1,216 people, one third of them civilians, according to a report by a Washington-based think tank. The unmanned aircraft based in neighbouring Afghanistan have carried out 114 raids in ...

ISLAMABAD (NNI)-Terrorist attacks in Pakistan have killed about 40,000 people and 2,250 security personnel, the Chairman of the Senate Defence Committee told a British delegation on Monday. Senator Lt.Gen (Retd) Javed Ashraf said in a meeting with the delegation of British House of Commons Defence ...

VAVUNIYA (AFP) - Sri Lanka said Saturday it would grant free movement to the remaining war-displaced civilians held in internment camps, meeting a key demand of the international community. The government also reiterated it would complete the resettlement of civilians by the end of January. We will ...

UNITED NATIONS - The number of civilians killed in the war in Afghanistan rose 40 per cent last year to a record 2,118 people, the UN said in a new report Tuesday. The report said Taliban were responsible for 55pc of the deaths, but that US, Nato and Afghan forces killed 829 civilians ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - At least 10,000 civilians have escaped Sri Lanka's war zone in the last four days, the government said Sunday, as the president warned Tamil Tiger rebels to surrender unconditionally or be killed. The Tigers are fighting for survival after being driven back into a small patch of ...

GAZA CITY (AFP) - Gripping their wailing children, terrified Gaza civilians scuttled for any shelter they could find on Thursday as Israeli tanks barrelled into the heart of a residential neighbourhood in Gaza City. Loaded down with babies, toddlers and children, dozens of families arrived at the ...

KABUL (AFP) - A United Nations team has found "convincing evidence" that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in US-led airstrikes last week, the body's representative in Afghanistan said Tuesday. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) human rights team was sent to the ...

PESHAWAR - At least five persons were killed and six others injured when a mortar shell landed on a house on Saturday in Khar, Headquarters of Bajaur Agency. As per details, a mortar shell, fired by the security forces against militants during the ongoing operation, landed on a house and killed ...

MOGADISHU  - Ethiopian forces opened fire on two civilian buses near the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 30 passengers, witnesses told AFP. Ethiopian soldiers in the town of Arbiska sprayed gunfire on the two vehicles, one of which was travelling from the capital and ...