Taliban commander speaks out
Taliban commander speaks out Al Jazeera has obtained an exclusive interview with Sirajuddin Haqqani, a Taliban commander fighting US and Nato forces in Afghanistan. US...
UK probe tackles Iraq war legality
Britain’s former attorney-general cautioned a cabinet minister about the legality of going to war in Iraq, one year before he gave the government the go-ahead...
Yemen ‘must resist foreign forces’
The Yemeni military is fighting al-Qaeda, Houthi rebels, and a separatist movement A group of Muslim leaders have said Yemenis have a religious duty to resist foreign...
Pakistan drone attack ‘kills many’
Pakistani officials say Hakimullah Mehsud, Pakistan's Taliban chief, was targeted in the attack A suspected US drone attack has killed at least 18 people and...
‘Suspects’ die in Karachi explosion
The building in the city of Karachi collapsed after the explosion on Friday At least seven people have been killed after an explosion destroyed a house in the...
Contractors held over Afghan deaths
Blackwater was criticised for its actions while working for the US defence department in Iraq Two former employees of the US private security contractor Blackwater,...
CIA base bomber ‘was double agent’
Zeid, a Jordanian intelligence officer killed in the attack, was honoured in Amman A suicide bomber who killed eight people when he attacked a US base in Afghanistan...
Yemen rules out US intervention
Yemeni authorities have tightened security in Sanaa as foreign embassies have shut Yemen’s foreign minister has ruled out direct US military intervention to...
Nato troops killed in Afghan explosions
About 113,000 foreign troops are in Afghanistan fighting Taliban-led fighters Two separate roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan have left four US troops and a British...
Iraq ‘to appeal Blackwater verdict’
The September 2007 shooting in Baghdad left 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians dead The Iraqi government will push to appeal a US court ruling dismissing charges of murder...
