Ahmed Noor Wazir, who witnessed the attack, said rescuers pulled three dead bodies and four badly wounded men from the rubble of the house, which was being used by Taliban militants.

Bahraini middle-distance runner Rashid Ramzi was stripped of his 1,500-meter gold medal Wednesday and four other athletes were disqualified because of doping at the games.

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan parties in the mountains like guerrilla-stars!

Party your way to liberation, H!

"The myth has been broken that this was a graveyard for empires and it would be a graveyard for the army," Abbas said.

"Major town and population centres have been secured," he added.

Meanwhile, The Taliban scumbags blew up a girls school in Pakistan's Khyber district. Islamist militants have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years.

Why don't you go protest for the Taliban?

The interior ministry said it approved the construction of 900 new units in Gilo, one of a dozen Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem, in a move that flew in the face of Palestinian calls — that had had US backing — for a complete freeze on new building ahead of fresh peace talks.

Israel captured east Jerusalem with the rest of the West Bank in the Six Day War of 1967. It later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community and insists on retaining the whole of the Holy City as its "eternal, indivisible" capital.