DAMASCUS  - A UN convoy attempting to pick up 21 Filipino peackeepers that their Syrian rebel captors had agreed to free was forced back by a barrage of army shelling on Friday, a watchdog said.In New York, UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said the village where the soldiers are being held ...

Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani on Monday expressed deep concern over unprovoked border shelling by the Afghan forces last evening killing four civilians.The Foreign Secretary conveyed to the Afghan Ambassador the condemnation of the Government of Pakistan over the attacks, which he said, were ...

DATTA KHEL  - Six mortar shells landed in the Dattakhel area of the North Waziristan tribal region, near the Afghanistan border, wounding six people, four of them children, security officials said.According to official sources, the Nato forces had allegedly fired the mortars from the ...

LONDON (AFP) - Gunfire between the two Koreas raised alarm on global markets already focused on Tuesday on widening debt strains and pressure for new direction in the eurozone three weeks before an EU summit. Shelling between North and South Korea, and the Irish-eurozone debt crisis, pushed up the ...

PESHAWAR (AFP) Security officials said Tuesday that five people were killed and two wounded by NATO cross-border fire from Afghanistan in the third such incident in days. They said members of the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the eastern Afghan province of Khost shelled ...

ORAKZAI AGENCY - At least 16 suspected militants were killed and many others were injured, as the gunship helicopters pounded the hideouts of the militants in the area. Two security personnel were also martyred during the gunfight. The clash between the security forces and militants took place at ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The senior Israeli field officer in the Gaza war has been reprimanded over artillery shelling in a heavily populated area that hit a United Nations compound during the fighting, the military said on Monday. The officer, Brigadier-General Eyal Eisenberg, still heads Israels ...