Bomb Kills Religious Leader in NW Pakistan
A roadside bomb killed a local religious leader in Pakistan’s restive northwest along with two others Monday, officials said, in the latest attack since the army began an operation to clear out...
View ArticleUS Soldier Harold Greene killed by Afghan Soldier
A US general has been killed in an attack by an Afghan soldier at a British-run military academy near Kabul, US officials say. Maj Gen Harold Greene is the highest ranking US military official to have...
View ArticleU.S. Drone Strike In Pakistan Kills 7 Militants: Officals
A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a sprawling compound in a northwestern tribal region of Pakistan on Wednesday, killing seven militants, two Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strike took...
View Article256 police vehicles made bulletproof in K-P
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government helped police make 256 of their vehicles bulletproof, Express News reported on Tuesday. These vehicles will be used for local operation as well as by special...
View ArticleWhat are ISIS’s options now?
In domestic debates about what the United States should do to blunt the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Americans often forget that the adversary also has options. A...
View ArticleIsraeli soldiers worse than ISIL terrorists: Israeli MP
An Israeli lawmaker says there is no difference between Israeli soldiers and militants of the ISIL and that both are “armies of murderers with no boundaries and red lines.” “They (ISIL) kill one person...
View ArticleWhy Can’t the Pentagon Kill the Islamic State’s Top Commanders
The United States and its coalition partners have conducted close to 800 airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, hitting command-and-control facilities, training compounds, armored...
View ArticleIslamic State and Jundallah meeting creates ripples
Amid swelling reports of the Islamic State (IS) rapidly emerging in Pakistan, a most recent meeting in Balochistan between the leadership of Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi-led IS and a splinter group of the...
View ArticleA Rare Glimpse Inside Pakistan’s Anti-Taliban Operation in North Waziristan
BY WAJAHAT S. KHAN A television studio for suicide bombers, a market offering car bombs in a variety of colors and a secret tunnel filled with rotting corpses under the local mosque. These were aspects...
View ArticleA Pakistani writes from inside Guantanamo
By Ahmed Rabbani My crime was that I spoke Arabic. When the Americans were offering ransom money for handing over Arabs to them back in 2001, someone accused me of being one and my fate was sealed. I...
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