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The German military on Friday said it had grounded nearly half its fleet of Tornado reconnaissance jets, used in the fight against the ISIS, because of a technical defect.

A motorcycle-riding Taliban suicide bomber killed six NATO soldiers near Kabul today, in a brazen attack as the resurgent terrorist group battled to seize a key southern district in Afghanistan's opium-growing heartland.

A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off at a huge US-run airfield in Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, adding that there was no reported insurgent activity in the area at the time.

US personnel set fire to all their redundant equipment before vacating Pakistan's Shamsi airbase that had been used to launch drone attacks, an official said. The US completed evacuation of the airbase on Sunday and Frontier Corps personnel promptly took over.

Pakistan may continue blocking NATO supply convoys into Afghanistan for several weeks and would not rule out closing its airspace to the United States, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has reportedly turned down a request to extend the 15-day deadline set by the Pakistan government for the US to vacate Shamsi airbase that is believed to be used by CIA-operated drones.

A day after 28 Pakistani soldiers were reportedly killed in firing by NATO helicopters and combat jets near a border check post, Islamabad is indulging in some tough posturing against the United States. In an unequivocal message to Washington expressing its anger over the strike, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said, "We will not all...

The firing by NATO helicopters and combat jets on Pakistan soldiers has added further strain to already tense Pakistan-US relationship.

The German military on Friday said it had grounded nearly half its fleet of Tornado reconnaissance jets, used in the fight against the ISIS, because of a technical defect.

A motorcycle-riding Taliban suicide bomber killed six NATO soldiers near Kabul today, in a brazen attack as the resurgent terrorist group battled to seize a key southern district in Afghanistan's opium-growing heartland.

A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off at a huge US-run airfield in Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, adding that there was no reported insurgent activity in the area at the time.

US personnel set fire to all their redundant equipment before vacating Pakistan's Shamsi airbase that had been used to launch drone attacks, an official said. The US completed evacuation of the airbase on Sunday and Frontier Corps personnel promptly took over.

Pakistan may continue blocking NATO supply convoys into Afghanistan for several weeks and would not rule out closing its airspace to the United States, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has reportedly turned down a request to extend the 15-day deadline set by the Pakistan government for the US to vacate Shamsi airbase that is believed to be used by CIA-operated drones.

A day after 28 Pakistani soldiers were reportedly killed in firing by NATO helicopters and combat jets near a border check post, Islamabad is indulging in some tough posturing against the United States. In an unequivocal message to Washington expressing its anger over the strike, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said, "We will not all...

The firing by NATO helicopters and combat jets on Pakistan soldiers has added further strain to already tense Pakistan-US relationship.