Pakistan-born Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana was found guilty on Thursday by a U.S. jury of supporting an Islamic militant group blamed for the 2008 attack in Mumbai that killed 166 people.
CIA director Leon Panetta said Thursday that American troops will likely remain in Iraq beyond a 2011 deadline and parried questions about Afghanistan during his confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense today.
Outrage is brewing in Pakistan following the murder of an innocent unarmed young man in Karachi by a paramilitary officer.
The President wanted to be sure that he'd gotten his man before making the news of Osama bin Laden's death public.
Contrary to State Department policy, economic aid may not prevent Pakistanis from turning to militant radicalism.
India successfully test-fired surface-to-surface nuclear capable Prithvi II ballistic missile in the eastern state of Orissa on Thursday.
Osama bin Laden's longtime lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri, warned Americans not to gloat about the killing of the al Qaeda leader and vowed he would carry on bin Laden's work, according to a YouTube recording posted on Wednesday.
Enoch Powell was one of the most fascinating, influential and controversial British politician of the 20th century. Largely unknown to Americans, Powell became a symbol of the anti-immigration movement that swelled during in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.
Bin Laden's second-in-command, Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahri. delivered a video eulogy for Osama Bin Laden, posted on YouTube today.
U.S. drone missile strikes have killed at least twenty people in North Waziristan, the wild tribal region of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan and is reportedly a haven for terrorist groups.
The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has claimed that the U.S. government is secretly planning to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear sites in order to further de-stabilize that country.
The claim that senior al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri was killed in a recent missile strike was disagreed by both U.S. and Pakistani authorities.
Pakistani Taliban, a close ally of al Qaeda, has threatened to attack American targets abroad in a bid to avenge the killing of bin Laden by U.S. special forces in a Pakistani town on May 2, said one of its senior leaders.
Last May, six Asian women were elected to the British Parliament; and there are expectations that this number will increase in the coming years.
17 militants in Pakistan's South Waziristan were killed in a missile strike by a suspected U.S. drone aircraft on Monday, said intelligence officials, following reports that a top Al Qaeda operative was killed in the region last week.
The northwest region of Pakistan was rocked by two separate bomb attacks on Sunday, killing at least 24 people.
Regarded as one of the most dangerous militants in the world, Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al Qaeda operative,was killed by a U.S. drone aircraft missile strike in Pakistan, an intelligence official and local media said on Saturday.
Al-Qaeda terrorist and Mumbai terror attack mastermind Ilyas Kashmiri were among nine militants killed in a US drone strike, BBC reported today, quoting residents of South Waziristan tribal region.
There is a possibility of political talks between the U.S. and the Afghan Taliban by the end of this year, if the U.S-led NATO alliance continued to make military advances on the ground, said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Saturday.
Yahoo has released a list of the top misspelled or misheard searches for the year 2011.
At least 270 migrants from Libya heading towards Europe may have drowned after their ship sank off the coast of Tunisia in a storm, authorities said on Thursday.
Abandoning Pakistan would be a “dangerous” step for the U.S., according to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Mullen.