British Special Forces were critical in bringing the Taliban attack in Kabul on Sunday and Monday to an end, despite Nato commanders insisting that the Afghans countered the attack without help. According to Sky News sources, a unit of British Special Boat Service (SBS) troops were among the Afghan soldiers who stormed the building where the Taliban fighters were hiding. The building, a construction site in the heart of Kabul, was raided at about...
Seoul: North Korea on Tuesday dismissed a rebuke by the UN Security Council of its failed long-range rocket launch and said it was no longer bound by an agreement with the United States for a moratorium on missile and nuclear tests and arms inspection. The Security Council on Monday condemned the...
A Libyan military commander is taking legal action against Jack Straw, to find out if the ex-foreign secretary signed papers allowing his rendition. Abdel Hakim Belhadj claims CIA agents took him from Thailand to Gaddafi-led Libya, via UK-controlled Diego Garcia. His lawyers have served papers on Mr...
Congratulations to the people of Timor Leste for their success in holding largely peaceful democratic elections. It is a rare feat that a newly independent nation, which counts among the world’s poorest, could go through the democratic process of selecting its leaders with little violence. The...
North Korea says it is no longer bound by a moratorium on missile and nuclear tests agreed with the US in February in return for food aid. The statement on Tuesday came after the UN Security Council condemned North Korea's failed rocket launch, seen by many as a test of missile technology....
Sudan and South Sudan are "locked in a logic of war", the UN Security Council (UNSC) has been told. The two countries are fighting over their disputed border, with Sudan trying to remove South Sudan forces from its Heglig oil-field. African Union mediator...
A Timorese election official holds a ballot showing a vote for presidential candidate Taur Matau Ruak during the vote counting at a polling station in Dili, East Timor, on Monday. Photo: AP/Kandhi Barnez When East Timor's outgoing president, Jose Ramos-Horta, won office in 2007 by a crushing 69 per...
Mario Monti is set to cut Italy's economic growth forecasts for 2012 in a move that will cast doubt on the viability of his austerity programme in the face of the advancing debt crisis. Italian PM Mario Monti is struggling to implement tough austerity measures Photo: AFP tag -->...
Sydney. Australia said on Tuesday that it would bring its troops home from Afghanistan a year earlier than planned, with most soldiers withdrawn in 2013 after significant security gains during the past 18 months. Canberra, a key coalition ally of the United States, has repeatedly said it intends to...
