
A US air raid killed eight Afghan policemen in the country’s volatile south, officials said Monday, in the first apparent “friendly fire” incident since American forces were granted greater powers to strike at insurgents. The raid occurred on Sunday in the Tali area of Uruzgan province, where the Taliban recently ...

Egypt’s Al-Azhar centre of Islamic learning has condemned deadly twin blasts near the Afghan defense ministry in Kabul, describing them as “against the tolerant teachings of Islam”. The rush-hour explosions by the Taliban on Monday killed 41 people and wounded 110. “These terror acts are against the tolerant teachings of ...