Updated 9/4 11:45 AM EST At approximately 3 AM this morning, US helicopters landed in a tiny village in South Waziristan, not far from the Afghanistan border. Troops emerged and opened fire on the villagers, killing at least 20 civilians according to North-West...
Last Updated 9/3 7:35 PM EST Early this morning NATO helicopters landed in a tiny village in South Waziristan, just a mile from the Afghan border. The forces killed 20 people including three women and four children, according to local residents, and wounded an...
As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan gets under way, the Pakistani government has announced a ceasefire in the restive Swat Valley for the duration of the holiday. The fighting has been particularly bad in the tiny Bajaur Agency, where over half of the population is...
Updated 8/30 8:45 PM EST Less than a week after losing their largest coalition partner the Pakistani Peoples Party's internal stability has been called into question, amid reports that acting party leader and presumptive future President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari...
In a meet unusual for its high level of secrecy, Admiral Mike Mullen and General David Petraeus met with the head of Pakistan's military, General Ashfaq Kayani, aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. The meeting focused primarily on the increased fighting...
Last Updated 8/28 12:35 PM EST Around 150 militants were reported killed in a surge of violence on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border. On the Afghan side of the border, 40 Taliban were reported killed in airstrikes after attacking government-run checkpoints in...
Pakistani Muslim League-N Leader Nawaz Sharif announced today that his party would leave Pakistan's coalition government to join the opposition bench, after new President Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistani Peoples Party reneged on its previous promise to restore some 60...
