GARDEZ (PAN): A three hour long overnight attack by Taliban fighters on a district headquarters caused no causalities in the southeastern Paktia province, an official said on Wednesday.

CHIGHCHIRAN (PAN): Three policemen and a civilian were killed while four more received injuries during two separate incidents in central Bamyan and western Badghis provinces.

KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan government on Tuesday declared allocating $50 million to buy edible from neighbouring countries amid skyrocketing prices of food staples that caused protests from people and parliamentarians in the central Asian country.

Danish intelligence officials have warned of an aggravated terror threat against Denmark since the reprinting in February of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The warning specifically singled out North Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Palestinian fuel distributors in the Gaza Strip agreed today to provide an emergency shipment to a UN aid agency that cautioned it would have to halt food distribution unless its trucks received petrol.

The White House and the CIA told key lawmakers in secret Thursday that North Korea helped Syria build a nuclear reactor at a site destroyed by an Israeli raid in September, officials said.

Beirut - MP Wael Abu Faour of the Democratic Gathering bloc said that no one is rejecting dialogue in principle, and that MP Walid Jumblatt is forever seeking solutions to the present crisis.

Days after a threat by al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon are under renewed attack from the militant organisation, Hezbollah.

Resigned Lebanese Foreign Affairs Minister Fawzi Salloukh said he fears the recent meeting held in Kuwait may have touched on issues that constitute "obstacles toward progress" in Lebanon.

Jerusalem - At the foot of the wall Israel has built to cut off Arab east Jerusalem from the West Bank (both Palestinian territories occupied by Israel), a Palestinian man, seeing no police around, furtively removes a packet from a

Opposition MP Elias Skaff canceled a press conference scheduled for Thursday at his office in Zahle to avoid protesters angry with his alleged involvement in the murder of two government supporters earlier in the week.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abu Al-Gheit said he is convinced that there won't be a solution to the Lebanese crisis in the near future.

Many Lebanese worried about the country's political paralysis devolving into violence are purchasing firearms to protect themselves.

Found: drinking companions to join elderly gentleman for a friendly beer at his local pub.

Dozens of inmates rioted Thursday at Lebanon's largest prison and took several prison guards hostage, just steps away from Fatah al-Islam prisoners. Riot police and reinforcements were sent to Roumieh penitentiary, to get the situation under control.

Russia has invited Turkey to participate in construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi. The announcement was made by the head of the Ministry of Transport of Russia Igor Levitin at a meeting with his Turkish colleague Binali Yildirim.Levitin pointed out

Serbia's capital hosts a famed British rock group. Also this week: a leading Romanian exile during the communist era dies in Paris, and Albanian weightlifter Romela Begaj wins silver at the European Weightlifting Championship.

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ANKARA, Turkey -- EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn told the German newspaper Die Welt on Monday (April 21st) that he expects Turkey to join the...

Afghanistan's government has barred soap operas from television stations in an effort to thwart liberal reforms, officials said.