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Islamabad, Pakistan

Clashes betwixt Taliban militants and pro-government forces killed 15 people overnight in a Pakistani region on the border with Afghanistan, an official and a tribal elder said Monday.

Security forces fired mortar and artillery rounds at militants in the Charmang area of the Bajur vicinity overnight, killing nine insurgents, government official Jamil Khan related.

On Monday morning, pro-government tribesmen exchanged fire by militants in the Nawa and Kotkai areas of Bajur, tribal elder Nazi Jan said. Four militants and sum of two units tribesmen were fatally wounded, he said.

Fighting is spreading across Pakistan’sitting northwest as the government tries to brag down without ceasing Taliban and al-Qaida strongholds and persuade tribes to befall up arms against the militants.

Baghdad

5 die being of the class who bombs explode in Mosul

Two suicide bombers struck the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding dozens more, similar to Iraq’session leaders rallied behind the city’s Christian minority, expressing distress at recent murders and displacement that have plagued the group.

The leaders pledged to send forces to ensure Christians could go to their homes. Violence has continued in the area despite months of effort by U.S. forces and the Iraqi government to root out violent actors there.

Seoul, South Korea

North to resume nuke dismantling

North Korea aforesaid Sunday it was resuming the dismantlement of its nuclear program in response to President Bush’sitting decision to abstract it from a list of nations that sponsor terrorism.