Foreign militants are assembling in Pakistan’s wild western tribal areas preparing to assault international soldiers across the border in Afghanistan, according to a former al-Qaeda operative recently captured by NATO forces.
A Taliban suicide bomber killed six people, ramming an explosives-laden truck into a three-storey police station in Peshawar, officials said.
President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron laid out their broad guidelines for using force against other nations in the context of a wide-ranging opinion piece on Tuesday which touched upon rising democratic movements in the Middle East and the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan.
At least 4 service members from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan were killed in a roadside bomb attack on Monday.
U.S. President Barack Obama declared solidarity between the United States and economically struggling Ireland with a symbolic gulp of beer and a rousing speech, telling a huge Dublin crowd on Monday: Your best days are still ahead.
President Barack Obama sipped stout and kissed babies as he landed in Ireland, marking the first of many planned events across Europe.
There are conflicting reports coming out of Pakistan and Afghanistan regarding the whereabouts (and very existence) of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the reputed head of the Taliban.
A suicide bomb attack in a crowded Afghan bazaar in a remote town, 100 Kms away from Kabul, has killed four civilians and injured 14, on Monday.
Afghanistan’s private television channel TOLO television on Monday reported that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in Pakistan.
At least 6 killed in Taliban suicide bomb attack in a police building in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials told Reuters.
Since the shocking discovery (and subsequent) assassination of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in early May in a compound in Pakistan, rumors have swirled that authorities in Islamabad have been harboring and protecting the world’s most wanted man all these years.
A suicide bomber killed at least six people and wounded 23 more when he detonated explosives at a military hospital in the Kabul on Saturday, the Afghan Defense Ministry said in a statement
Fifteen people have been killed as a NATO tanker carrying oil for forces in Afghanistan has exploded in northwest Pakistan on Saturday.
Police in Pakistan said they have thwarted a terrorist attack by arresting a potential suicide bomber and two of his associates in the city of Karachi.
Here is the White House text of President Barack Obama‘s speech on the Middle East, as prepared for delivery.
Battling all objections from Iraq, the first film adaptation of controversial author Salman Rushdie's “Booker of Bookers novel Midnight's Children has finished shooting in Sri Lanka.
The Afghan Taliban’s spring offensive against the state has taken another deadly turn, with the murder of at least 35 construction workers in an ambush in the eastern part of the country, according to reports.
A group of senior U.S. Senators (all Democrats) are pushing the Obama Administration to halt any further aid to Pakistan until the government is convinced that Islamabad is not sheltering any more terrorists in the country and doing everything it can to stamp out Islamic militancy.
A former Egyptian Special Forces officer and an extensively trained and experienced military strategist, Saif Al-Adel, the alleged newly appointed interim chief of Al-Qaeda could prove to be more dangerous than Osama Bin Laden. More than a mere surprise, his appointment as Al-Qaeda's 'caretaker' has great strategic implications.
An al Qaeda operative from Yemen has been arrested by the Pakistani forces in Karachi on Tuesday.
Pakistani security forces arrested senior al-Qaeda official Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub (alias Abu Suhaib al-Makki) in Karachi on Tuesday. Muhammad Ali is believed to have worked directly with al-Qaeda operatives on the lawless Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
According to various media reports a former Egyptian military officer turned al-Qaeda militant has been chosen to head Osama bin Laden's terror network temporarily until the slain leader's successor is officially named.
