The U.S. Department of State and FBI have released this "age progressed" photograph of Osama Bin Laden (Usama bin Ladin) as a part of newly enhanced photos of terrorist suspects on their most wanted lists in Washington, January 15, 2010. The digitally enhanced pictures of Osama bin Laden shows how the al Qaeda leader might look now. REUTERS/U.S. State Department
Trilateral meeting on Afghanistan today
Foreign ministers of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan are meeting here on Saturday for consultations on the London Conference to be held later this month to reinforce political process in the war-torn country.
US releases names of prisoners at Bagram, Afghanistan
US authorities have released the names of 645 prisoners held at Bagram air base in Afghanistan in response to a freedom of information lawsuit.
U.S.-funded Pashto radio a new weapon in war against Taliban
When Taliban fighters vowed to cut his throat to muffle his songs of peace, love and the futility of war, Haroon Bacha, a famous Pashtun singer, fled his home in Peshawar, leaving his wife and two children behind. But yesterday Mr. Bacha fought back: He sang to the Taliban, he sang to his family and to anyone else from his homeland who happened to tune in to a slick new radio program aimed at countering militant broadcasting in the insurgent heartland bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Nato short of military instructors in Afghanistan
Pakistani Taliban: Voice on tape is injured leader
The Taliban in Pakistan says a new audiotape contains the voice of their leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, who was wounded in a suspected drone strike this week.
Sunni candidates ban threatens Iraq election
Leading Sunni politicians tonight warned that Iraq was sliding towards a "dark unknown" in the wake of a decision to ban more than 400 Sunni candidates from contesting the upcoming general election. The move is increasingly being seen as a test of the poll's legitimacy and a direct threat to the Shia-led government's attempts at reconciling the country's warring militant and political factions.
Former Iraq PM unveils alliance to fight election
Iraq's former pro-Western prime minister Iyad Allawi on Saturday unveiled a broad secular alliance of candidates to contest the country's general election on March 7. Allawi, a Shiite politician who in exile mounted an opposition movement against Saddam Hussein, was provisionally appointed by Washington as Iraq's first premier after the dictator's ouster in the US-led invasion of 2003.
Yemen confirms killing of six Qaeda leaders
emen's interior ministry confirmed on Saturday the death of Al-Qaeda's military chief in the country, Qassem al-Rimi, and that of five of his lieutenants in an air strike a day earlier.
Osama bin Laden's photo digitally updated to account for age, facial hair
The State Department has updated its 1998 file photo of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, digitally altering it to account for a decade of age and possible changes in his facial hair.
Al-Qaeda threat: Britain worst in western world
Al-Qaeda has successfully restructured its global network and now has the capability to carry out a wide range of terror attacks against Western targets, according to a detailed U.S. intelligence assessment that has been conducted in the wake of the failed Christmas Day Detroit bomb plot.
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