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AP - A suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of a rival insurgent group in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 23 of its supporters in an outbreak of factional fighting, an official said. More...

AP - Gunmen attacked a bus in northern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 18 passengers on board, police said. More...

AP - Pakistan may deploy air defense weapons to the Afghan border to prevent future NATO airstrikes such as the ones last month that the Pakistani military claims were pre-planned and that killed 24 of the country's soldiers, a senior lawmaker said Friday. More...

AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai confronted Pakistan on Wednesday, saying a militant group based there was behind a suicide bombing at a Shiite shrine in Kabul that killed 56 people during commemorations of a holy day. More...

AP - The United States is vacating an air base in Pakistan used by American drones that target Taliban and al-Qaida militants, complying with a key demand made by Islamabad in retaliation for the NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, the U.S. ambassador said Monday. More...

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- In the second such attack in two days, militants attacked a police station in Pakistan on Sunday. The Sunday attack took place in the central Pakistani city of Multan and wounded six, officials said. Initially, police said three people had died, but later clarified...

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A member of a Pakistani-based militant group is denying a New York Times report that a cellphone found during the raid of Osama bin Laden's compound contains information that links his group to bin Laden. The member of Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen said he was not aware of...

Washington (CNN) -- Osama bin Laden considered seeking a deal with Pakistan under which al Qaeda leaders in the country would be protected and, in return, al Qaeda would refrain from attacking Pakistan, a U.S. official told CNN Friday. The revelation surfaced as American agents analyzed the...

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suicide bomber in an explosive-laden car rammed into a police station in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday in a Taliban attack that killed seven police officers and injured several others, a senior police official said. The Pakistani Taliban said the attack was to...

KABUL, Afghanistan – The Afghan intelligence agency said Monday that the reclusive leader of the Taliban has disappeared from a suspected hideout in Pakistan and has been out of contact with his commanders for days — adding further questions about Mullah Mohammad Omar after a media report said...

Pakistani authorities interrogated a teenager on Monday wanted in the United States on charges of financing and supporting the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban, local intelligence officials said. Alam Zeb, 19, was charged in Florida along with his mother and a family friend. He is the...

Pakistan's president acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that his security forces were left out of a U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden, but he did little to dispel questions over how the al Qaeda leader was able to live in comfort near Islamabad. The revelation that bin Laden had...

It’s not shocking that Osama bin Laden was found in a comfortable Pakistan mansion—what’s shocking is that the U.S. pretends the country isn’t a harbor for terrorists. Plus, full coverage of bin Laden’s death. To me, as an American Muslim, it’s significant that bin Laden is dead...

One of the biggest crises in the history of U.S.-Pakistan relations has been resolved with the release of a CIA contractor charged with double murder. Raymond Davis was set free by a court in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore after family members of the victims submitted affidavits saying...

-- Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan will be unable to withstand mounting U.S. pressure and their only option will be to break with al Qaeda and join a peaceful dialogue on the country's future, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday. "They cannot wait us out. They cannot defeat...

-- U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Pakistan to release a jailed U.S. diplomat accused of killing two people, warning that his prosecution could endanger the "important principle" of diplomatic immunity. "Obviously, we're concerned about the loss of life. You know, we're not callous...

-- A Pakistani court has ordered a jailed American diplomat to remain in custody for 14 more days, authorities said Friday. The man's lawyer then filed a petition calling for his immediate release, saying he is covered under diplomatic immunity. Raymond Davis, who allegedly shot and killed two...

-- Members of Congress told senior Pakistani leaders that billions of dollars of U.S. aid are in jeopardy unless an American diplomat, detained since January 27 in connection with the shooting deaths of two Pakistani civilians, is released. "We indicated it could very well be" that the U.S...

ISLAMABAD – U.S. officials say Washington may scrap upcoming talks with Pakistan about the war in Afghanistan to further push Islamabad to free an American who shot dead two Pakistanis. The U.S. says insists the detained American has diplomatic immunity and killed the Pakistanis in self-defense...

-- At least seven people died and 15 were wounded when a car bomb exploded in a tunnel in northwest Pakistan, police said Saturday. The blast occurred late Friday, said Kazi Hamid, a Kohat city police officer. It was in the Kohat Tunnel, a thoroughfare to metropolitan cities such as Karachi...