Suspected militants attack Pakistan power station, 7 dead

Dozens of suspected militants attacked a major power station in northwest Pakistan with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades and killed seven people, police said on Tuesday.

Attack on US base kills 14 in Afghanistan: NATO

A suicide truck bomber attacked a US-run base today, sparking clashes that killed up to 14 people in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, officials said. NATO's US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said none of its personnel was killed in the attack in Khost province, a Taliban flashpoint that borders Pakistan.

Taliban suspend contacts with US

The Taliban today said it had suspended contacts with the United States in Qatar, just days after an American shooting spree left 16 Afghans dead, dealing a blow to hopes of a peace process. "It was due to their alternating and ever-changing position that the Islamic Emirate was compelled to suspend all dialogue with the Americans," a statement posted on the Taliban website said,

Video of Marines urinating on Taliban corpses 'utterly deplorable': US

Defense secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday strongly condemned a video posted online that purportedly shows US Marines urinating on corpses of insurgents in Afghanistan, and promised a probe into the abuse. "I have seen the footage, and I find the behavior depicted in it utterly deplorable," the Pentagon chief said in a statement, adding that

Taliban strike Pak border, kill 36 soldiers

At least three dozen soldiers were killed and scores injured when hundreds of Taliban insurgents holed up in Afghanistan launched a pre-dawn cross-border raid on Pakistani checkpoints in the country's northwestern Chitral district on Saturday. This was the latest in a series of attacks that militants have carried inside Pakistan from their bases in Afghanistan's Nuristan and Kunar provinces bordering Chitral.

Taliban close to victory in Afghanistan: Mullah Omar

The Taliban's shadowy leader has told Afghans that the insurgents are winning the war and warned Americans that they are wasting lives and billions in tax dollars by continuing in the conflict.