Funerals are due to be held of the victims of Thursday’s attack on anti-terrorist police headquarters in Karachi, which left 20 dead.

The Chilean government said Tuesday that it is seeking to hold for at least three more days a Pakistani man who was arrested at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago after what appeared to be traces of explosives were detected on his clothing and...

During yesterday’s hearings before the House and Senate Armed Service Committees, General Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry presented a unified front, defending the escalation strategy outlined by the Obama administration. They...

The Pakistani military says it has captured Kotkai, the hometown of Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban chief, in the country’s South Waziristan tribal belt. The army launched a military offensive last week, pitting around 30,000 Pakistani...

Afghan insurgents should be offered amnesties and removal from the coalition’s “wanted” list if they lay down their arms, says the British general charged with coaxing fighters away from their extremist leaders. “There’s no question about...

Afghanistan’s Taliban mocked the award of a Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday, saying he should get a Nobel Prize for violence instead. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said it was absurd to give a peace award to a...

Militants ambushed a convoy of prominent anti-Taliban tribal elders in volatile northwest Pakistan on Thursday, spraying their cars with gunfire, killing nine people and wounding six others. The members of the anti-Taliban citizen’s group were...

Lal Mohammad was determined to stand against Taliban threats and exercise his right to vote in Afghanistan’s presidential election. But he now regrets his defiance. These horrifying pictures show a fearful Mohammad recovering after he was...

It was a heated debate during the Bush administration: What to do about evidence that Afghanistan’s powerful defense minister was involved in drug trafficking? Officials from the time say they needed him to help run the troubled country. So the...

Roadside bombings and a gun attack killed seven U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan on Monday, providing a grim reminder of the insurgency’s resilience even as Marines moved to consolidate gains in their operation against the Taliban in the southern...