A suicide bombing aimed at US-led troops in Afghanistan killed at least seven Georgian soldiers and injured nine others, the Georgian Defense Ministry in Tbilisi said late Thursday.
Classified intelligence reports reveal that the CIA did not always know who it was targeting and killing in terror drone strikes in Pakistan over a 14-month period.
The American troop accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, many of them women and children who were asleep in their villages, pleaded guilty to murder.
Nawaz Sharif has been endorsed as Pakistan's new prime minister, beginning an unprecedented third term with the country facing a daunting array of problems.
Two British soldiers have confessed to abusing Afghan civilians, including one child, during their presence as international forces in Afghanistan.
A US drone strike has killed seven people in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, security officials say.
A bomb planted in a rickshaw tore through a vehicle used by security forces in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people.
India says it will do all within its means to promote stability in Afghanistan after visiting President Hamid Karzai said he had given a military "wishlist" to the Indian government.
Foreign troops serving with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have killed at least two seminary students in western Afghanistan, Alalam reports.
Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf has been granted bail in the case against him for alleged involvement in the murder of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.