SAN’A: A Yemeni security official says six soldiers were killed in an Al-Qaeda attack on a patrol in the southern province of Shabwa. The official said Sunday night that Al-Qaeda militants attacked the patrol in the southern town of Aqla with rocket propelled grenades and sprayed it with bullets. Many foreign oil companies are located [...]
KABUL: Nato mistakenly killed five of its Afghan army allies in an airstrike Wednesday while they were attacking insurgents in the country’s east, officials said. Three American soldiers were also reported killed Wednesday in a roadside bombing in the south. An Afghan defense official condemned the latest ”friendly fire” deaths, which came at a time [...]
Flight from Dubai overshoots precarious hilltop runway in Mangalore NEW DELHI – As many as 160 people were feared dead after an Air India Express plane arriving from Dubai crashed and burst into flames at dawn Saturday as it overshot a precarious hilltop runway in southern India while trying to land in the rain. Eight [...]
PESHAWAR: A US drone fired two missiles into compounds in Mir Ali area of North Wazrisitan Agency (NWA), killing four people and leaving another five seriously wounded on late Saturday, security officials said, as military activity intensified in the area. US drone attacks target Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked commanders in the nuclear-armed country’s tribal belt, where [...]
KANDAHAR: At least ten civilians were killed and seven injured in a suicide bomb attack Sunday that targeted an army convoy in southern Afghanistan, officials said. “It was a suicide bomber who detonated a motorcycle as an Afghan National Army (ANA) vehicle was passing by,” Daud Ahmadi, spokesman for the Helmand provincial government, said. He [...]
