DERA ISMAIL KHAN Dec 27 (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban have seized at least 22 men from a paramilitary force in attacks on three checkpoints in n...

If we are complicit in these children's fame, and their compromised safety, by watching and reaching about their lives, we must be willing to change the underlying social problems that they represent.

MINGORA, Pakistan -- Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai was admired across a battle-scarred region of Pakistan for exposing the Taliban's atrocities a...

Mr. Rashid's theory reflects a more abysmal picture for the future of Afghanistan. Does it mean that all educated Afghans will now have to reach out to the triumphant Taliban (in their office in Qatar) to attain an approval certificate of for their work?

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Prominent al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban fighters asked Pakistani militants in a pair of rare meetings to set aside th...

KARACHI, Pakistan — A large bomb exploded Monday outside the home of a senior police officer tasked with cracking down on the Taliban and other ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban released a video Monday showing fighters executing 16 Pakistani tribal policemen in a hail of gunfire who were captured...

KARACHI, Pakistan — Islamist militants stormed a naval base in the Pakistani city of Karachi late Sunday, destroying a U.S.-supplied surveillanc...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan Taliban are showing signs of increasing strain after a number of killings, arrests and internal disputes that have re...

Policies of appeasement allow military contractors a free license to patrol and kill in Pakistan -- in the case of Raymond Davis, the ability to fire on his assailants 10 times.

Has the world grown weary of opening its wallets to natural disasters? Or is Pakistan a special case, one mired in a complexity that works against the generosity of potential donors?

KABUL, Afghanistan — Four days after three British troops were slain at their base in the middle of the night, it remains unclear what motivated...

The President made diplomacy the theme of the national security strategy he laid out at West Point last month. But a brave new world grounded in multilateralism is still on the far horizon.

KABUL — The arrests of top Taliban figures in Pakistan abruptly halted secret U.N. contacts with the insurgency at a time when the efforts were ...

ISLAMABAD — A top Taliban leader picked up in Pakistan as part of a recent crackdown on insurgents will be handed over to Afghanistan, an Afghan...

It is important to recognize that the apprehension of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar wasn't a result of military force, but of intelligence gathering by the military and CIA, in close cooperation with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence.

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead, three Taliban sources said Tuesday....

ISLAMABAD — Taliban militants flog two men and a teenage boy in a video that has emerged from Pakistan's tribal belt along the Afghan border, sh...

MIR ALI, Pakistan — The Pakistani Taliban refused Tuesday to provide proof their leader survived a U.S. missile attack, just one day after promi...

Yesterday's attack in Multan may not seem significant to outsiders looking at the steady drumbeat of bombings that have rocked Pakistan. It seems like...

The policy adviser to foreign minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, said the British and American governments were fully aware of the ISI's role but lacked ...