Dhaka - Dhaka on Saturday made a formal request to the United Nations for assistance to rescue two Bangladeshi development workers abducted in war-torn Afghanistan last month.
"We have sought assistance from the United Nations to rescue abducted Bangladeshi workers," the foreign affairs adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, told reporters after the talks with visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Kabul - Four Afghan security forces and 30 Taliban fighters including a female militant were killed in the latest series of clashes and attacks in Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.
Two Afghan soldiers were killed and two were wounded when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb blast in the Yakhchal area of Gerishk district in southern Helmand province on Friday, the Afghan defence ministry said in a statement.
London - A British commander of reservist Special Air Service (SAS) troops in Afghanistan has resigned in protest over what he has called the "chronic underinvestment" in protective military equipment for use in Afghanistan, the Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday.
Major Sebastian Morley in his resignation letter singled out the continued use of the so-called Snatch Land Rover vehicles commonly used in Afghanistan to transport troops, which have been criticized for their lack of sufficient armour.
Kabul - Two army soldiers were killed in a roadside attack in southern Afghanistan, while 25 Taliban fighters including a female militant were killed in fight with Afghan and coalition forces elsewhere in the country, officials said Saturday.
The two Afghan soldiers were killed and two others were wounded when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb blast in the Yakhchal area of Gerishk district in southern Helmand province on Friday, the Afghan defence ministry said in a statement.
Rome - Afghanistan director Siddiq Barmak's Opium War and Italy's Giacomo Battiato's Resolution 819, about war crimes in Bosnia, won top prizes Friday at the International Rome Film Festival.
The Golden Marc'Aurelio Critics Award for Best Film was bestowed to Opium War, in which a pair of US military helicopter pilots confront the harsh realities of life in Afghanistan after their aircraft is shot down.
Islamabad - More than a dozen people were killed in an airstrike carried out by a suspected US drone in Pakistan's tribal region along border with Afghanistan, security officials said.
"A US pilotless aircraft fired two guided missiles on the house of a person named Amanullah in Asori village of Mir Ali sub-district of North Waziristan," said a security official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Dhaka - Dhaka on Saturday made a formal request to the United Nations for assistance to rescue two Bangladeshi development workers abducted in war-torn Afghanistan last month.
Kabul - Four Afghan security forces and 30 Taliban fighters including a female militant were killed in the latest series of clashes and attacks in Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.
London - A British commander of reservist Special Air Service (SAS) troops in Afghanistan has resigned in protest over what he has called the "chronic underinvestment" in protective military equipment for use in Afghanistan, the Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday.
Kabul - Two army soldiers were killed in a roadside attack in southern Afghanistan, while 25 Taliban fighters including a female militant were killed in fight with Afghan and coalition forces elsewhere in the country, officials said Saturday.
Rome - Afghanistan director Siddiq Barmak's Opium War and Italy's Giacomo Battiato's Resolution 819, about war crimes in Bosnia, won top prizes Friday at the International Rome Film Festival.
Islamabad - More than a dozen people were killed in an airstrike carried out by a suspected US drone in Pakistan's tribal region along border with Afghanistan, security officials said.
