South Asia Conflict & Tragedy News

In 2009, the Indian Government launched a major anti-Maoist offensive in forest areas Operation Green Hunt. Fact-finding investigations have uncovered the atrocities security forces are committing in these areas, but now those very findings are being questioned. This 10-minute preview...

Kabul, Nov 20 Three bomb attacks against a police station, a car and a "warlord" left 23 dead and 35 wounded in the provinces of Farah, Khost and southwest of the Afghan capital, official sources reported . In the first...

A suspected US missile strike has killed at least eight militants in north-western Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border...

A suspected US drone aircraft fired two missiles in North Waziristan on Friday, killing eight people, the second such attack this week. The attack was near Mir Ali, a town in the North Waziristan region. "Eight people have been killed,"...

At Orissa's nearer area Posata - Manoharpur , at 9 pm Thursday night, Bilaspur Tata Passenger train's 10 coaches were derailed,so 5 passengers were died while 60 passengers were injured. One of them is still serious. This accident happened near...

Peshawar, Pakistan — A suicide bomb strike on a crowded courthouse in Peshawar killed 19 people today, the 10th bomb attack in six weeks for a city bearing the brunt of retaliation from Taliban militants battling Pakistani troops along the...

Again a suicide bomber has killed 19 people outside a courthouse in Peshawar, the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants fighting back against an army offensive in the nearby Afghan border region. The bombing was the seventh attack...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed and visited troops at the newly established International Security Assistance Force Joint Command here. Clinton was in the region attending the inauguration ceremony of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and took time to...

MIRANSHAH—At least four persons were killed and five others injured in a US drone missiles strike in North Waziristan Agency, official sources said Thursday. A US drone fired two missiles at a militant compound in Shanakhora village North Waziristan Agency,...

At least fifteen persons have been reported dead and several injured in a blast occurred near Judicial Complex at Khyber road, Peshawar on Thursday. According to police sources, large number of lawyers present in the court when blast happened near...