At least three people were killed and 22 others were wounded after twin bombs exploded near a local political party office in Karachi, Pakistan on Saturday, heightening tensions ahead of the country’s historic election on May 11.
Five US soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb blast in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar and two other US servicemen were shot dead in an 'insider attack' on Saturday, in one of the deadliest days for international forces this year.
Pierre Borghi, who was kidnapped in Afghanistan in November last year and held captive for 131 days, escaped after losing 12 kilograms, allowing him to slip out of his chains and through a narrow window to freedom.
Bags of cash delivered monthly to the Afghan National Security Council offered a quick-fix solution in a nation steeped in a tradition of patronage, but François Picard's panel worries that CIA payments may ultimately undermine US efforts to pull out of a stable Afghanistan.
Bags of cash delivered monthly to the Afghan National Security Council offered a quick-fix solution in a nation steeped in a tradition of patronage, but François Picard's panel worries that CIA payments may ultimately undermine US efforts to pull out of a stable Afghanistan.
Bernard Bajolet, the outgoing French ambassador to Afghanistan, blamed the country’s rampant corruption and the drug trade on the country's failure to establish itself as an independent country in a hard-hitting speech last Tuesday.
At least eight Turkish nationals, a Russian and possibly other foreign citizens were seized by the Taliban on Sunday when bad weather forced their helicopter to make an emergency landing in east Afghanistan, officials said.
The Pakistani Taliban, which claimed the 2010 Times Square bomb plot, denied any involvement in the twin explosions at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured more than 100, spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said on Tuesday.
This week, we take you to Waziristan, Pakistan's tribal area along the Afghan border, where the fight against the Taliban is far from over. Then, we ask whether the change of leadership in China has lead to a change in attitude towards health crises? And a French company gains a foothold in India's largely untapped water management market.
South Waziristan, on the Pakistani border with Afghanistan, was the scene of a huge 2009 offensive against the Taliban. FRANCE 24 reports from a region where the militant threat is too close for comfort.
