Afghan War May Shift Focus To Al Qaeda in Pakistan
President Obama's national security team is moving to reframe its war strategy by emphasizing the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan while arguing ...
President Obama's national security team is moving to reframe its war strategy by emphasizing the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan while arguing ...
Jamie Metzl | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
Just back from Afghanistan, I began to daydream about Karzai speaking directly to the American people to take responsibility for his government's failings and seek support for U.S. engagement in the country.
AP | MUNIR AHMAD and CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — U.S. missiles are believed to have killed an al-Qaida operations chief and a top Uzbek militant in northwest Pakistan, officials sai...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Al-Qaeda is likely to try again to use aircraft to attack the West, Whitehall officials have told the BBC. Security correspondent Frank Gardner said t...
AP | NAHAL TOOSI and KAY JOHNSON | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A barrage of rockets hit a residential area of Pakistan's northwestern Peshawar city in a brazen pre-dawn attack Tuesday, k...
Newsweek | Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai | Posted 09.08.2009 | World
If Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban's most dangerous and powerful leader, was indeed killed by a U.S. Predator drone strike earlier this week, ...
New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
WASHINGTON American officials say they are seeing the first evidence that dozens of fighters with Al Qaeda, and a small handful of the terrorist group...
UN Dispatch | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
I just sat down with the Pakistani Ambassador the United Nations, Abdullah Hussain Haroon. I asked Amb. Haroon to respond to Obama's Cairo speech and...
Radio Free Europe | Ron Synovitz | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
Advisers to U.S. President Barack Obama's administration say their worst security nightmare is the possibility that Pakistan -- a nuclear-armed count...
Al Jazeera | Posted 04.12.2009 | World
At least 12 people in Pakistan, including suspected al-Qaeda fighters, have been killed in a missile attack thought to have been carried out by an unm...
Telegraph | Posted 03.27.2009 | World
The United States and Europe must give Pakistan up to $5bn (£3.5bn) in urgent aid or risk seeing the nuclear-armed country slip into chaos, two leadi...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 02.22.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — A hasty departure of U.S. troops from Iraq would carry severe risks, including bolstering al-Qaida and threatening Iraqi progress towa...
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.27.2009 | World
For Bhutto's many flaws, she was enormously brave. You cannot for a moment imagine that she did not know she had a target almost tattooed over her heart.
Eric Margolis | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics
Ironically, while Bush and Cheney were obsessing over al-Qaida, and searching under every rock in Afghanistan for Osama bin Laden, the real danger to America was at home -- on Wall Street.
AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 01.14.2009 | World
SABAGAI, Pakistan — From atop a craggy hillock, the silver-haired Lt. Col. Javed Baloch gestures toward a small black opening in a sandstone out...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
Does Sarah Palin agree with Barack Obama (and disagree with John McCain) on attacking known terrorist sites inside Pakistan? Despite the Republican no...
AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.18.2008 | Home
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Air-fired missiles hit a militant compound near the Afghan border and killed at least six people Wednesday evening, offici...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Today's New York Times leads with a report that Al Qaeda is strengthening their organization in Pakistan. With US resources heavily invested in Iraq, ...
New York Times | CARLOTTA GALL and ISMAIL KHAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The announcement of a cease-fire just a few weeks into a determined military operation against one of Pakistan's most wanted men, the militant leader ...
nytimes.com | PETER BAKER and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 10.08.2009 | World