Pakistan Police: Plot Foiled on Hotels, Diplomats Pakistan police say they foiled Taliban terror attack against diplomats, top hotels Two highly experienced Taliban militants were arrested while planning to attack top hotels and kidnap diplomats in Pakistan, and one of the men claimed to have helped plan previous strikes. The two men, both deserters from a government paramilitary force, were arrested recently in a hotel in Rawalpindi, a crowded city near Islamabad, said Islamabad Police Chief Bin Yamin. He declined to say Monday when ...

"Things have gotten a bit hairy," admitted British Lieut. Colonel Graeme Armour as we sat in a dusty, bunkered NATO fortress just outside the city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, a deadly piece of turf along Afghanistan's southern border with Pakistan. A day earlier, two Danish soldiers had been killed and two Brits seriously wounded by roadside bombs. The casualties were coming almost daily now. And then there were the daily frustrations of Armour's job: training Afghan police ...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday she did not come to Pakistan for "happy talk."

A top Taliban political leader delivered a message Friday to President Obama, calling his attempt to lure away Taliban fighters with money "an old weapon that has failed already." Obama meets Friday with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who will tell the U.S. leader how a large deployment to Afghanistan would affect the military. Akhund warned Obama against maintaining a military presence in Afghanistan, saying it "will only deepen your economic crisis and will harm your international reputation." "Pull all ...

A passport bearing the name of Said Bahaji, a suspect linked to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, has been found in a town captured by the Pakistani military.

They come trudging up a dirt path in single file, towards a white cricket stadium in the middle of this dusty provincial town.

His legs and arms are wrapped in bandages. His face, shrouded in a mask of cotton.

Sunday's suicide terror attack that killed at least five commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps could have an impact far beyond the Islamic Republic's restive southeast border with Pakistan. Although the attack was orchestrated by the Sunni extremist group Jundullah — a separatist organization based among the Baluchi ethnic group that spans the Iran-Pakistan border and has for years conducted low-key terror strikes — many in Tehran blamed the bombing on a covert campaign by Western intelligence agencies to ...

Two back-to-back suicide bombings killed at least two and wounded 13 others at a university here Tuesday, authorities said. The explosion occurred at the International Islamic University in the Pakistani capital, said police official Bin Yamin. A man and a woman died in the blast, said Dr. Wasim Khawaja of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences. Among the wounded, four were in critical condition, said Altaf Hussein, another doctor. All the victims are between the ages ...

Heavily armed militants put up a fierce fight on Tuesday to protect a Taliban stronghold in South Waziristan, Pakistan's military said. Taliban fighters attacked incoming troops in the village of Kotkai, using rocket launchers and heavy anti-aircraft machine guns, said a senior military official. More than 20 militants and four soldiers died, he said. Three soldiers were wounded. Kotkai is the hometown of Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud and Taliban commander Kari Hussain. In Tuesday's clashes, militants engaged troops in head-on ...