At least 23 soldiers were killed in Tajikistan after a convoy was ambushed by heavily armed militants — a devastating blow that will shake this impoverished nation lying on Afghanistan’s poorly secured northern border. The military convoy was...

A police official was killed and six other policemen wounded in the attacks on two police stations in northwest Pakistan Saturday, police said. In first attack a gunfight broke out when two suicide bombers stormed into a police station in Mansehra,...

Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said on Thursday. The young Americans, from Virginia, are accused of contacting...

A bomb exploded near an intelligence office in central Pakistan on Tuesday, authorities said, damaging the building and killing at least 12 people amid a surge of extremist violence that has prompted the U.S. to offer additional aid in the...

Suicide attackers armed with guns and grenades attacked a mosque near Pakistan’s army headquarters in Rawalpindi during Friday prayers this morning, killing at least 37 people and wounding more than 45, according to rescue services. The army...

From the busy and bucolic scene in this Punjab province village, it is hard to tell that Pakistan is in the throes of a national sugar crisis. Fields of tall green cane line the roads, and flatbed trucks piled with ripe stalks head for a modern mill...

A suicide bomber struck a court in Peshawar Thursday killing 26 people, the sixth attack on the northwestern city in 11 days as Pakistani troops press a major anti-Taliban offensive. The bomber hit at the main gate of the building, near the five-star...

Hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight U.S. soldiers and capturing more than 20 Afghan security troops in the deadliest assault against...

Still traumatized, she recounts the events that led her to a safe house in Kabul. She was raped and nearly stabbed to death by her husband just seven days before we met her. Her lips are quivering and her eyes full of fear. “He forced himself...

Taliban militants struck at government buildings in the city of Khost in southeastern Afghanistan yesterday with suicide bombs, AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, wounding 14 people, including two police officers, and provoking fears of a...