At least 17 insurgents were killed as several others injured when army jets pounded suspected militants' hideouts in Pakistan's northwest tribal region of Kurram on Thursday, local media reported.
At least four people were killed and four others injured in a U.S. drone strike launched early Wednesday morning in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan, reported local state-run media PTV.
At least 11 people including the head of provincial council were killed Monday morning when a suicide bombing rocked Pul-e-Khumri city, the provincial capital of northern Afghan province of Baghlan, a provincial source said.
The Afghan Taliban has intensified attacks since weekend when the insurgent group launched an annual rebel offensive, killing nearly 35 people across the country.
Thirteen insurgents have been killed in operations launched by Afghan forces and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said the ISAF's Regional Command-East in a press release on Wednesday.
Mayor of Japanese city of Nagoya Takashi Kawamura said at a debate of the city's mayoral election on Monday that he will not withdraw his denial on Nanjing Massacre that more than 300,000 Chinese were killed by Japanese Imperial Army in 1937.
A Malaysian soldier and three gunmen were killed in fresh gunfights while another soldier died in a road accident Tuesday, raising the death toll to 68 in a month-long standoff with the Sulu militants in Malaysia 's Sabah state.
The three Asian doctors that were killed by unknown attackers in the northeast Nigeria's town of Potiskum are from Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Nigerian police in northeast state of Yobe confirmed on Sunday.
Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi imposed Sunday a curfew and a state of emergency in the turmoil- stricken Port Said governorate, as well as Suez and Ismailia, due to the ongoing bloody clashes there.
The visiting international envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, continued his meetings Wednesday in Syria's capital Damascus in the hope of reaching a solution to the prolonged crisis amid nationwide ongoing violence and clashes.
At least two soldiers were killed and two others were injured when some unidentified militants fired at an army vehicle in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan, local media reported Wednesday.
A train crashed with a school bus in southern Egypt, leaving 40 children killed, official Ahram-online reported on Saturday.
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