The leading anti-drugs judge in Afghanistan, Alim Hanif, is shot while on his way to work.

A hotel apologises for its "mistake" in refusing a room to an injured soldier home from Afghanistan.

RTTNews) - Three members of the 2500-strong Canadian military contingent based in southern Afghanistan as part of NATO's mission to fight the Taliban were shot dead by insurgents Wednesday.

Pakistan summons the US ambassador over an alleged cross-border raid which officials say killed at least 15 villagers.

Paris Match sparks outrage after publishing an interview and photographs of Taleban fighters who killed 10 French soldiers near Kabul.

TRINKOT (PAN): The governor of Uruzgan has complained that warlords, who join Taliban insurgents at night, are responsible for growing insecurity in the southern province.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): An unidentified motorcyclist gunned down a school principal in the northern Faryab province late Tuesday night, an official said on Wednesday.

A British soldier dies in an explosion while on patrol in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): First session of awarding diplomas to university students started for the first time in university of northern Balkh province on Saturday officials said.

The official says the money was taken in a crackdown on money laundering by the Islamic militants. He says that in one such scheme, Hamas uses West Bank traders importing goods from China. The West Bank government of Palestinian President

All our country's measures on Abu Musa island are completely legal and in accordance with Iran's rights governing this Iranian island," foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi said. He was reacting to a statement by GCC condemning the construction and calling