BAQUBA Two bombs near a Sunni mosque and another targeting a Sunni funeral procession killed 49 people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, after two days of attacks against Shias that killed dozens.The surge in violence raises the spectre of tit-for-tat killings common during the height of sectarian ...

At least nine people were killed and more than 55 others wounded when two back-to-back explosions rocked Kandahar city, capital of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a provincial government spokesman said."The initial reports said that three police officers and six civilians had died and ...

LALAMUSA/BAHAWALNAGARAt least seven persons including a woman were killed and four others injured in separate incidents of violence, enmity and mishaps over the past 24 hours. According to detail, in LALAMUSA, election rivalry claimed the life of a young man here at Mauza Chohan the other ...

BAGHDAD: Bombings inIraq, including a series of blasts mainly targeting Shia areas ofBaghdad, killed at least 25 people and wounded 68 on Wednesday, security and medical officials said. Car bombs hit Kadhimiyah andSadrCityin northBaghdad, Saidiyah in the south and Mashtal and Baghdad Jadida in the ...

  ALYSSA ROHRICHT   On Monday, the Associated Press revealed that the Department of Justice used subpoenas to obtain phone records of its editors and reporters from April and May 2012. The records were obtained due to the investigation and supposed leak to the AP last year that the CIA ...

Gunmen on Thursday killed the driver of a NATO supply truck driving through northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, local officials said.The shooting took place in the Jamrud area of Khyber. "Two gunmen on a motorcycle fired at a NATO truck and killed its driver," local government official ...

LAHORE - Punjab Rangers killed two smugglers attempting to traverse Wagha Border into India on Tuesday with narcotics.According to Rangers Commander Brigadier Zahid Ahmad, unusual movements were spotted last night at Indo-Pak border. The personnel of Punjab Rangers faced armed resistance when they ...

BAGHDAD : Gunmen armed with silenced weapons shot dead 12 people at alcohol shops in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, security and medical officials said.The gunmen, who were travelling in four vehicles, restrained federal policemen at a checkpoint in the Zayouna area of west Baghdad, an interior ...

RAIPUR  - Maoist rebels killed three policemen on Sunday during an overnight attack on a state-run broadcaster in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a senior police official told AFP. The shootout with state police who were guarding the building began after national broadcaster ...

KANO, Nigeria : Gunmen from a shadowy cult ambushed a group of police officers in central Nigeria, killing 23 of them and then setting fire to their bodies, the state's police chief said Thursday."A detachment of 60 police... came under attack from members of Ombatse cult in an ambush," Nassarawa ...

  ADEN: Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen on Wednesday shot dead three air force generals from a strategic southYemenair base used by US soldiers last year to train local forces in combating terrorism, the army said. “Three pilot officers were martyred this morning by unknown gunmen... as they ...

karachi - Three people were killed and 40 others wounded when two blasts struck near Muttahida Quami Movement headquarters in Karachi on Saturday, sparking scenes of panic, police officials said. The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed the responsibility for the twin bombings. A senior police ...

Karachi - Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Sadiq Zaman Khattak, contesting for NA-254 Karachi, was gunned down along with his four-year-old son by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in Bilal Colony on Friday.Following the killing, the Election Commission postponed polls in the constituency while ...

Security forces killed at least eight militants during an operation in Upper Orakzai on Saturday.As per details, the operation was carried out in Shin Qamar and Sanga areas.During the aerial attacks Pakistani military aircraft also destroyed three militant hideouts.Orakzai is one of Pakistan's ...

RIYADH: Thirteen people have died and four more are missing inSaudi Arabiaafter downpours caused flash floods in several areas of the desert kingdom, the civil defence authorities said on Wednesday. The official SPA state news agency quoted Colonel Abdullah al-Harethi as saying people died in ...

GHAZNI -  Insurgents killed three police officers in Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said, in an attack that the Taliban claimed marked the start of their annual ‘spring offensive’.A roadside bomb blast in the restive central province of Ghazni targeted a police convoy that was ...

Peshawar/Kohat/Swabi  -  Ten people were killed and over 45 others injured in three bomb blasts targeting election offices of different candidates and an ANP public meeting in Kohat, Peshawar and Swabi on Sunday.A joint election office of independent candidate Syed Noor Akbar and ANP's ...

Five car bombs exploded Monday in mainly Shiite areas south of Baghdad, killing 16 people, officials said, the latest attacks in a seven-day wave of violence costing more than 230 lives across Iraq.The bloody unrest, which began last Tuesday with deadly clashes between security forces and Sunni ...

Peshawar -  Two explosions took place in Hangu and Kohat whereas two other bombs were defused in Bannu and Charsadda districts on Friday. In Hangu’s Muhammad Khawaja area, militants blew up a government high school, partially damaging the structure, local political administration sources ...

SANAA  - Suspected Al-Qaeda militants shot dead a Yemeni intelligence officer overnight in Mukalla, capital of the southeastern Hadramawt province, a security official told AFP on Saturday."Al-Qaeda gunmen on a motorbike opened fire on the officer Ibrahim Bameshel as we was on his way back ...

LOS ANGELES - Cable channel Showtime pulled the plug on “Dexter,” the critically acclaimed show about a police analyst who is also a serial killer.Starring Michael C. Hall in the title role, the show that pushed boundaries in terms of violence and dark humor will conclude this summer at ...

BAGHDAD Iraq ramped up security on Friday on the eve of its first polls since US troops left as attacks, including a bombing at a Baghdad billiards cafe, killed 35 people in a spike in unrest before the vote.The deadly violence just before Saturday's provincial election raises further questions ...

MOSCOW - Russia's Olympic host city of Sochi ran into controversy Thursday after the city authorities announced a plan to exterminate more than 2,000 stray cats and dogs ahead of the Games next year. In a tender posted online this month, the authorities asked companies to bid for a contract to ...

Eight militants were killed and one soldier was injured after an exchange of fire in Orakzai Agency on Wednesday.According to sources, Taliban militants ambushed a security check-post in Dabori area of Orakzai Agency early in the morning.The security forces retaliated strongly, thwarting the ...

SARGODHA/ARIFWALA/BAHAWALPUR - At least three persons were killed and three others injured in separate incidents over the past 24 hours.According to detail, in Sargodha a recklessly driven car ran over three labourers when they were having food here at a roadside stall. Resultantly one of them died ...

MIRANSHAH  - At least five militants have been killed by a US drone strike on Sunday in North Waziristan.The attack took place in Datta Khel town, 35 kilometres west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan which borders Afghanistan.Six US drones flew over the area when one of them ...

DAMASCUS - Airstrikes by regime warplanes killed at least 12 children in two incidents on Sunday, one targeting a Kurdish village in northeast Syria and the other a district of Damascus, a watchdog said.Elsewhere, activists accused the regime of destroying the minaret of the historic Omari mosque ...

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 ...

BAQUBA - Bomb attacks on worshippers in Baghdad and north of the Iraqi capital killed 12 people on Friday, officials said, the latest in an uptick in violence ahead of provincial polls next week.In the deadliest single blast, a roadside bomb struck after prayers at the Omar bin Abdul Aziz mosque, ...

SARGODHA/HAFIZABAD/BAHAWALPUR/BAHAWALNAGAR - At least nine persons including four women and an infant were killed and four others injured in separate incidents of violence, honour killing and road accidents over the past 24 hours.According to detail, in Sargodha four people including a woman were ...