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  • Obama unveils new strategy for Afghanistan

    U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a new strategy for its policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan on Friday. Obama announced previously leaked plans to send 4,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, on top of 17,000 deployments already authorized. The new strategy includes proposals to counter a persistent Taliban and al-Qaeda campaign that spans the two countries'.. More

  • Nato supplies terminal in Pakistan attacked

    Dozens of suspected fighters have fired rockets at a transport terminal in northwest Pakistan that is used to ship supplies to Nato soldiers based in Afghanistan, police say. At least 12 shipping containers were damaged in the attack early on Saturday at the Farhad terminal in Peshawar, capital of the North West Frontier Province, Zahur Khan, a local.. More

  • Deadly blast in Pakistan mosque

    At least 50 people have been killed in a mosque in northwestern Pakistan after a suicide bomber blew himself up during Friday prayers. The attack destroyed the mosque in the village of Bagarin in Khyber Agency, Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder said. Up to 250 people were believed to be praying at the time of the blast. "At least 50 bodies have.. More

  • Children killed in Baghdad blast

    At least 16 people have been killed and 35 others wounded in a car bomb at a crowded market in Baghdad, police say. At least four children and three women were among the casualties from the blast next to a bus terminal in the district of Shaab, official said on Thursday. The explosion came a day after a US military spokesman said attacks across.. More

  • Deaths in Indonesia dam collapse

    At least 19 people are thought to have drowned after a dam burst on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. The collapse of the dam triggered a surge of water that crashed through a crowded residential neighborhood early on Friday morning. The flood submerged around 400 houses in water up to 2 meters deep in some places. Rescue officials.. More

  • Jets 'bombed convoy in Sudan'

    A Sudanese minister has told Al Jazeera that the US launched two air raids in the country earlier this year. Mabrouk Mubarak Salim, the state minister for highways, said on Thursday that Sudanese, Somalis, Ethiopians, and Eritreans were killed in the attacks in January and February. The attacks targeted a number of cars in the desert near the.. More

  • Civilians die in Sri Lanka shelling

    At least 54 Sri Lankan civilians have been killed by shelling in the so-called safe zone in the north of the country, officials say. Thousands of civilians are trapped in a tiny area of jungle along the northeastern coast where the military is battling Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters. "Now 165 injured people are in hospital,.. More

  • North Korea rocket launch 'in days'

    North Korea has placed a rocket on a launch pad, and could "technically'' launch it within three to four days, a South Korean newspaper has said. The Chosun Ilbo newspaper said on Thursday that US spy satellites had detected the rocket's positioning on the launch pad in Musudan-Ri, located near the country's east coast. Amid rising tensions on.. More

  • Deadly 'drone attack' in Pakistan

    Pakistani intelligence officials say four people have been killed after a suspected US drone aircraft fired two missiles into a house in the North Waziristan region near the Afghan border. The incident occurred early on Thursday outside the town of Mir Ali, they said. "Two missiles fired from a suspected US drone hit the compound of a local tribal.. More

  • Al-Bashir travels to Cairo

    Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, has met his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo in a show of defiance after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir held talks with Hosni Mubarak and several other senior Egyptian political leaders on Wednesday at.. More

  • Bomb kills 7 civilians in eastern Afghanistan

    A roadside bomb ripped through a van carrying civilians in eastern Afghanistan, killing seven people and wounding nine others Wednesday, while three Australian soldiers were wounded in another blast in the south, officials said. The attacks are a reminder of the dangers facing Afghan and foreign troops as thousands of new U.S. troops roll into the.. More

  • Palestinians to resume Cairo talks

    Palestinian groups will meet in Egypt on April 1 to discuss moves towards a unity government, an official loyal to the Fatah movement of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has said. The planned meeting between Fatah and its main rival Hamas comes after both sides failed to reach an agreement in talks on March 19. "We are exerting every.. More

  • Lebanon accepts Syrian ambassador

    Lebanon has accepted Syria's first ever ambassador to Beirut. Michel Suleiman, the Lebanese president, accepted Ali Abdel Karim Ali as Damascus's representative on Tuesday, Lebanese official media said. The move comes after last week's decision by Beirut to appoint an ambassador and open its embassy in the Syrian capital, and is the final formal step.. More

  • Clashes erupt in Israeli-Arab town

    Israeli police have used stun grenades and tear gas to disperse a protest by Arab residents of a northern Israeli town. The protest in Umm el-Fahm, one of Israel's largest Arab towns, erupted on Tuesday after Jewish hardliners tried to march through the town. Mickey Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said police swung into action after protesters.. More

  • Madagascans protest against leader

    Thousands of people have gathered in Madagascar's capital to protest against Andry Rajoelina taking power in the country. Some 3,000 supporters of Marc Ravalomanana, the deposed president, gathered in Antananarivo for several hours on Monday chanting slogans and pledging resistance to Rajoelina's rule. And they vowed to continue protesting all week.. More