Four killed as insurgents attack Italian Base in Herat, Afghanistan

HERAT, Afghanistan: Twin Taliban attacks killed four people and wounded 24 others, in the Afghan city of Herat at an Italian-led Nato reconstruction team on Monday, officials said.

The blasts came just weeks before the usually peaceful historic city is to become one of the first places in the war-torn country to transition from Nato to Afghan security control nearly 10 years after the 2001 US-led invasion.

Osama bin Laden's cover was blown by one of his closest allies, Mirror

Fake Bin Laden

 London : Daily Mirror claims that, Osama bin Laden’s cover was blown by one of his most trusted allies as secret papers suggest found at his lair. 

Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Baradar is believed to have told US investigators the location of the Al-Qaeda terror chief’s hide-out. In return they ­promised to ­withdraw US troops from

Nato Air Strikes in Afghanistan kills 52 including Women and Children

Victims of  ISAF Bombing

KANDAHAR: A Nato Air Strike had killed 52 people, mostly civilians, during operation against insurgents according to Afghan authorities said Sunday.

In the southern province of Helmand, local authorities said at least 14 civilians, including women and children, were killed and six injured in an air raid Saturday.

Two states Over Same Terriotory : A new vision for peace

US President Obama's bluntness has shocked some Israelis and their supporters, who long assumed that when push came to shove the United States would acquiesce to the facts Israel has created in the West Bank through its establishment of over 120 settlements since 1967. The President knocked the wind out of their sails by reiterating US support for the 1967 borders as the basis for any final peace deal. The Palestinian state, he declared, "should be... sovereign and contiguous [and] based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognised borders are established for both states."

Suicide bomber kills one of the powerful police chief in North Afghanistan

The Attacked Provincial building

TALOQAN : A suicide bomber attacked a meeting of political and military leaders in Takhar province.and killed one of the most powerful men in north Afghanistan, along with a provincial police chief and three German troops,

NATO’s commander for the northern region and the governor of Takhar province were also in the provincial council gathering, but survived the attack, officials said.

Egypt opens Gaza border crossing, easing 4-year blockade

RAFAH CROSSING : With Hosni Mubarak regime gone Hundreds of Palestinians headed to this desert border crossing Saturday morning to be the first to enter Egypt under newly eased restrictions for residents of the Gaza Strip.

Egypt announced that it would open the Rafah crossing after the Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a reconciliation accord in Cairo early this month. The border opening had been offered as an inducement to Hamas to sign the pact.