Afghan security forces raided Taliban hideouts in their former strongholds the southern Helmand and Kandahar provinces, killing over a dozen Taliban fighters and arresting a dozen other on Saturday, officials said Sunday.
Twenty-two Taliban militants surrendered in the western Afghan province of Herat, the provincial governor said.
Five people succumbed to their injuries on Monday following Sunday night's twin bomb blasts in a densely populated Shia residential area in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, bringing the death toll to 45, officials said.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in a Shiite mosque in a city in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 75 others, a local police source told Xinhua.
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