Unknown assailants have blown up a stadium and a school in northwestern Pakistan, where government troops are fighting militants in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

China considers new legislation to make it compulsory for people to visit elderly family members, who will be able to sue relatives if they feel abandoned.

At least 40 people have been killed and more than 70 others wounded in an armed attack on a bank in Jalalabad in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province.

A gunman in an Afghan army uniform has opened fire on US-led soldiers in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province, killing three German soldiers and injuring six others, a report says.

Unknown gunmen dressed as police have seized a bank in the eastern Afghan province of Nangahar, triggering a gun battle with police that has killed at least three people.

A Pakistani court has reissued an arrest warrant for the country's former President Pervez Musharraf for his alleged involvement in the murder of ex-Premier Benazir Bhutto.

The US administration is holding direct, secret talks with senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan as part of an effort to forge a political settlement with the group, a report says.

Russia has warned the US against setting up permanent military bases in Afghanistan, saying the move could undermine peacemaking efforts and anger neighbors.

Anti-American sentiments have flared up anew in Pakistan as protesters hit the streets, urging the government not to bow to US pressure for the release of Raymond Davis, who killed two civilians in Lahore.

The US deployment of unmanned planes in Pakistan has killed thousands of people, with a great majority of them being civilians, a think-tank says.

A senior Afghan official says the US-led forces have long been violating basic human rights by conducting night raids and killing civilians in the war-ravaged country.

Reports say a man wearing an Afghan national army uniform has shot and killed two US-led foreign soldiers in Afghanistan's troubled north.

A US-led airstrike have killed at least 37 people and wounded several others in the troubled eastern Afghanistan amid growing discontent over such attacks.

Taliban militants have reportedly fired several rockets at a US-led military base and an airport in the troubled western Afghan city of Herat.

A US-led foreign soldier has been killed in a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, as the country encounters further deteriorating security.

At least two people, including a security officer, have been killed and six others injured in separate incidents of violence in Pakistan.

At least nine people have been killed and more than thirty others, including women and children, injured in a car bomb attack on a police station in eastern Afghanistan.

An insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed a foreign soldier serving with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

Malaysia's discriminatory policies have come under the spotlight once again as a Shia leader is still waiting his trial about three months after his detention.

A US army vehicle in Afghanistan has killed an Afghan pedestrian in the capital, Kabul, amid rising anti-US sentiments in the Asian country over US-led forces' night-raids, abductions, rapes, and tortures.

The current commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, has not accomplished his mission, an American university professor says.

A Pakistani court has delayed a decision on whether an American who killed two local men in Lahore in January has diplomatic immunity.

US Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry has urged Pakistan to release a US Consulate employee who shot dead two Pakistani citizens last month.

Japanese people have staged a street protest against the trans-Pacific free trade pact, which broadens relationships with the United States.

Afghan authorities have launched an investigation into the death of several people in a US-led operation in the southern Helmand province.

A serviceman with the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) force has lost his life in a non-combat related incident in the troubled eastern part of Afghanistan.

Four Afghan civilians have lost their lives when an errant missile fired by US-led forces struck their house in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand.

Sydney has arranged a burial for the victims of a boat crash that claimed the lives of 50 asylum seekers bound for Australia.

US Army General David Petraeus is said to leave his post as the commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan before the end of the year, a report says.

Afghanistan's Minister of Energy and Water Mohammad Ismail Khan has strongly rejected a plan to erect permanent US military bases in his country.

US President Barack Obama has urged Pakistan to free a US consulate employee who has been detained over the killing of two Pakistani citizens in Lahore.

The Afghan Interior Ministry says police forces have detained five Taliban attackers who intended to target government installations in the southern province of Kandahar.

A Finnish soldier serving with US-led foreign troops has been killed and several others wounded in the volatile northern Afghanistan.

A United Nations study has raised concerns over the growing number of children killed in the war in the violence-wracked Afghanistan.

South Korea and the United States will begin a new round of joint air, ground and naval military drills later this month amid tensions with North Korea.

Raymond Davis, an American citizen accused of killing two Pakistanis in Lahore, will be freed without charges since he has diplomatic immunity, a senior Pakistani politician says.

A report says that Washington spends $300 million of American taxpayers' money on Afghan war per day, and this comes as the US has failed so far to establish security in the war-torn country.

Three US-led British soldiers have been killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan's Helmand province, UK's Ministry of Defense says.

Residents demand an immediate probe into the raid by US-led foreign forces that resulted in abduction of several local figures in Balkh Province.

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has charged a police commando with the murder of leading politician and Punjab province governor Salman Taseer.