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USA Today
| 11 months ago
Pakistan (AP) The Taliban has released a video it says shows the heads of 17 Pakistani soldiers captured in a cross-border raid from Afghanistan this week and beheaded. The Pakistani military previously said 13 troops were killed in Sunday night's...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
Former Taliban fighters display their weapons as they join Afghan government forces during a ceremony in Herat province on June 23, 2012. Ten fighters left the Taliban to join government forces in western Afghanistan. Taliban militants on Wednesday...
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India Abroad
| 11 months ago
A United States drone targeted a house in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan tribal region, killing at least four militants and injuring two others. The Central Investigation Agency-operated spy plane fired two missiles at the house in the remote...
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Asia Times
| 11 months ago
Mualana Shiekh Naseeb, who taught at Darul Uloom Haqqania, one of Pakistan's largest religious seminaries, was abducted last month. His brutally tortured body was recovered days later on the outskirts of Peshawar. The Pakistani Taliban immediately...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Afghanistan is expected to visit Pakistan amid heightened tensions over militant networks allegedly based on Pakistani soil and still-closed military supply lines.
The Pakistani military said U.S...John Allen's Wednesday visit would...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says insurgents have killed four policemen in an attack in the west of the country.
Herat province government spokesman Noor Khan says Taliban militants ambushed the policemen on Tuesday night while...
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Hindustan times
| 11 months ago
At least four suspected militants were killed and two others injured in a drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region on Tuesday night, media reports said on Wednesday. The drone fired two missiles at a house suspected to be a militant hideout...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
Chairman of his own faction of Pakistan People's Party Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao on Tuesday warned that cross border attacks from Afghanistan would frequently occur unless the two neighbouring countries sorted out a joint strategy to tackle militancy.
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
U.S.-led troop deaths from makeshift bombs in Afghanistan are dropping sharply even though the number of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by insurgents are near record levels, Pentagon data show. Now, less than half of troop deaths come...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News June 26, 2012 The United Nations is calling on insurgents to end attacks on civilians in Afghanistan...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noting the growing use of explosives in populated areas and the need to engage with "non-state armed groups"...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama fears that in the event that Pakistan disintegrates, it would spark a scramble for nuclear weapons, some of which could fall into the hands of Islamic militants...Sanger, chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times ,...
