U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo charged on January 12 that Al-Qaeda has established a new home base in Iran.
Pakistani officials say a police officer has been killed as he was escorting a vaccination team in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa -- the latest attack against health workers taking part in a campaign to eradicate polio.
Despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, Pakistan on January 11 launched a five-day vaccination campaign against polio amid tight security, hoping to eradicate the crippling children’s disease this year.
Pakistan's Foreign Office has reacted angrily to a U.S. State Department statement asking the country to do more to hold an extremist leader accountable.
Provincial officials in southwestern Afghanistan have accused the Afghan forces of killing at least a dozen civilians after villagers brought in bodies of victims to protest the alleged incident.
A spokesman for Afghanistan's public-protection forces has been killed along with two other people after their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in the capital, Kabul.
Power is gradually returning to major cities across much of Pakistan after the country of 210 million people was plunged into darkness just before midnight on January 9 by a breakdown in the national power grid.
Shi'ite Muslims in Pakistan have ended nearly a week of sit-in protests and allowed the burials of 11 ethnic Hazara coal miners killed by militants from the extremist Islamic State (IS) group.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has said that his goal is to transition power to an "elected successor," and that he seeks a "positive peace" with the Taliban.
Afghan forces have arrested three people in connection with the December killing of prominent election activist Yusuf Rasheed.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has reiterated his call on Shi’ite ethnic Hazara protesters to bury the bodies of miners killed nearly a week ago in an attack in the southwestern province of Balochistan, telling them not to "blackmail” the head of government.
A Pakistani court has convicted and sentenced an alleged leader of a banned militant group that was blamed for the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks in India.
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