An apparent US missile attack destroyed a suspected militant compound in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, intelligence officials said.

Voicing concern over Pakistan's inaction against perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks, including Hafiz Saeed, India today warned that its restraint should not be confused with weakness and said it is "very, very difficult" to resume composite dialogue at present.

A suicide car bomber killed four people and wounded 29 others, when his vehicle exploded in a busy street during the morning rush hour in western Iraq.

Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba has identified as many as 320 targets across the globe, 20 of which are in India, a top US lawmaker has said.

A US lawmaker has alleged that Pakistan is paying compensation to the families of terrorists involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

The governor of Afghanistan's Kandahar province is demanding more troops to provide security, after 12 explosions in the largest southern city killed dozens of people.

New, startling revelations are now surfacing in the German Bakery Blast investigations. The bag containing the bomb at the German Bakery in Pune, reportedly lay unnoticed for over 90 minutes.

Asserting that talks with Pakistan were necessary to convey India's concerns on terrorism emanating from that country, Government today said it will continue to mount pressure on Islamabad to take concrete action against the menace.

The death toll in a twin suicide bombing of an army patrol in Lahore on Friday rose to 59 today even as Pakistani law enforcement agencies rounded up some 75 suspects during an overnight crackdown.

A suicide bomber today rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a security check post in Pakistan's restive Swat valley killing at least 10 people and injuring 13 others.

A resolution of Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan would no longer satisfy Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the terrorist outfit responsible for 26/11 and attack on Indian Parliament would continue to pose a serious threat to both India and the western world, top experts have told American lawmakers.

Police hunting members of a new terrorist group in western Indonesia fatally shot two suspects and arrested six others at a security checkpoint Friday, an official said.

Home Minister P Chidambaram and Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik were engaged in an unusual exchange of words on Friday, with the minister stating that all militant outfits across the border are supported by ISI and the envoy rebutting any involvement of state actors in terror acts against India.

The ISI continues to maintain links with Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist outfit responsible for 26/11, and Islamabad is reluctant to take action against its leaders and its network, several eminent US scholars and experts of South Asia have categorically told US lawmakers.

Terming terrorism as a curse for the nation, former president A P J Abdul Kalam today asked all political parties to come together to get rid of it.

The Home Ministry on Monday issued an alert for Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore saying the three major cities could be targeted by terrorists.

A Pakistani provincial minister today alleged that India's RAW was involved in the suspected suicide car bomb attack in Lahore, even as federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik claimed "signatures of India" were there in weapons seized from militants in the tribal areas.

A Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a building where police interrogated high value terrorist suspects here, killing 13 people and injuring about 80 others.

A suicide car bomber struck a building where police interrogate high-value suspects in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 61 more including women taking children to school, officials said.

The stand taken by lone surviving Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab that he is not a terrorist and was being framed by police in the 26/11 terror attack case would pose a big challenge to the prosecution in final arguments slated to begin on March 9 in a special court in Mumbai.

Indian Mujahideen militant Salman, an accused in 2008 Delhi serial blasts case who was trained in handling weapons and explosives in Pakistan, has been arrested by Anti-Terrorism Squad of Uttar Pradesh from Siddharth Nagar district, police said here today.

A new directive from NATO's top commander in Afghanistan orders coalition forces to avoid night raids when possible, but to bring Afghan troops with them if they must enter homes after dark.

Contending that dialogue was the only way forward with Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said the decision to hold foreign-secretary level talks was a "calculated" one but there can be no meaningful discussion till terror from there is ended.

Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested a senior Afghan Taliban commander, the latest move in a crackdown on the insurgent network in Pakistan.

Two days after his statement on Kabul attack which did not go well with authorities in New Delhi, US Special Envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke on Friday regretted any "misunderstanding" caused by his comments that Indians were not the target of the terror strike.