DERA ISMAIL KHAN/ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Taliban declared allegiance to ISIS Saturday and ordered militants across the region to help the Middle Eastern...
ISLAMABAD: A court in Pakistan ordered Saturday that 100 opposition activists be sent to jail for holding illegal protests, prompting a tense confrontation...
ISLAMABAD: Rival Pakistani politicians on Wednesday explored the possibility of a negotiated solution to weeks of protests aimed at the removal of Prime...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani soldiers and paramilitary forces entered the headquarters of the state television channel PTV in Islamabad Monday after a crowd of...
KABUL: It was late Saturday evening in a fourth-floor room of the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Kabul that the election crisis in Afghanistan that had...
KABUL: Afghanistan's war is inflicting an increasingly devastating toll on the civilian population, with the number of casualties rising by almost a quarter...
KABUL: Afghan officials released preliminary election results showing former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani well in the lead for the presidency, but said no...
KABUL: Rival Afghan presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani are holding last-minute talks to try to defuse a standoff over the outcome of a...
KABUL: Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani ruled out a coalition government with his rival Abdullah Abdullah Saturday, quashing hopes for a...
ISLAMABAD: Gunmen burst into a court in a busy shopping area in the heart of Pakistan's capital on Monday, killing at least 11 people in a suicide-bomb and...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's army on Wednesday said more than 100 soldiers had been killed by Taliban militants in the last five months, in a rare admission of mass...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is to release former Afghan Taliban second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on Saturday, yielding to years of calls from Afghanistan...
AKORA KHATTAK, Pakistan: He is known as the Father of the Taliban, a radical Pakistani preacher who calls the Taliban’s leader an “angel” and runs a seminary...
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Pakistan agreed on Thursday to re-establish a "full partnership", hoping to end years of acrimony over U.S. drone strikes on...
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: The Pakistani Taliban have set up camps and sent hundreds of men to Syria to fight alongside rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad,...
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland: Russian President Vladimir Putin faced growing isolation on the second day of a G8 summit on Tuesday as world leaders lined up...
LONDON: Police scuffled with scores of anti-G-8 demonstrators in central London and surrounded a building where protest organizers were meeting Tuesday before...
LONDON: South African anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu has won the 2013 Templeton Prize worth $1.7 million for helping inspire people around the world...
WINDSOR, England: Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who died in a mansion near London in unexplained circumstances last weekend, was found lying on the floor...
LONDON: British rock band Bastille raced to the top of the charts with debut album "Bad Blood" this week, knocking off Brit award winner Emeli Sande from the...
CAIRO: Shi'ite Iran, increasingly isolated over its nuclear programme, tried to improve ties with Egypt on Thursday, playing down differences over Syria...
ZAGAZIG, Egypt: These days, craftsmen, shopkeepers and other inhabitants of the Egyptian Delta town of Zagazig are often too busy making ends meet to ponder...
CAIRO: Egypt reshuffled its government on Sunday to strengthen Islamist control and pledged to complete talks with the International Monetary Fund on a $4.8...
CAIRO: The Egyptian pound fell to record lows and debt insurance costs soared on Wednesday despite assurances by the country's Islamist leaders they would...
AZAZ, Syria/CAIRO: The international peace negotiator for Syria pleaded with outside countries on Sunday to push the warring parties to the table for...