Three gunmen attacked a luxury hotel in Pakistan's southwestern port city of Gwadar on Saturday, killing at least one guard and battling security forces from inside the building, security officials and the army said.

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Several gunmen were firing on a training facility overseen by the National Security Directorate -- Afghanistan's intelligence agency -- from a nearby construction site.

Suspected militants stormed a government building in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, taking dozens of people hostage after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance gate, officials and witnesses said.

Police superintendent Michael Harrison said one of the suspects was believed to be armed with a rifle, while the other carried a handgun.

Initial reports said two gunmen had stormed the building in Erbil in the early morning and had shot and wounded a policeman.

One peacekeeper was killed when two unknown gunmen opened fire on a United Nations vehicle in northern Mali, the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said Saturday.

Gunmen in army uniforms who stormed Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel late on Saturday and battled Afghan Special Forces through the night killed more than 30 people and wounded many more, although the final toll of dead and wounded may still be higher.

At least nine people including five students were killed in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday when militants stormed an agriculture training centre

A Pakistani court on Wednesday ordered the release of one of the alleged masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai attacks which killed more than 160 people.

A German aid worker and an Afghan guard were killed and the Finnish woman was abducted as gunmen stormed the guest house in Kabul in May.