Civil Unrest

A suicide bomber struck an anti-Taliban gathering of tribal elders Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring about 100 others. The attack on the tribal council took place in Orakzai, normally a relatively quiet corner of the nation's restive...

U.S. missile attacks on suspected militants in Pakistan's northwest near Afghanistan are undermining the war on terror and "helping the terrorists," the Muslim nation's Foreign Ministry said Friday. The comments came as a suicide bomber attacked an anti-...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan In a blow to hopes that tribal leaders will prove a potent new ally in the fight against Islamic insurgents, a suicide bomber struck an anti-Taliban gathering of tribal elders yesterday, killing at least 30 people and injuring about...

Iraq's prime minister said Friday that the country's most influential Shiite cleric will leave the decision on the future of U.S. troops to the government and parliament -- a step that could remove a major obstacle to a deal. Tension rose in the Iraqi...

NATO defense ministers Friday authorized their troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to $100 million a year into coffers of resurgent Taliban fighters. "With regard to counternarcotics . . . ISAF can act in concert with the...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) _ Afghanistan's intelligence service said Saturday it broke up a Taliban plot to attack the country's most notorious prison with a wave of suicide bombers. The thwarted attack on the Policharki prison on the outskirts of the...

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) _ Hundreds of mourners attended funerals Saturday for more than 30 anti-Taliban tribesmen killed in a brazen suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan. More than 100 people were also wounded Friday when a teenage militant...

A suicide bomber penetrated a heavily secured police enclave Thursday, wrecking a residential building that housed anti-terrorism police and injuring a half dozen officers. Elsewhere in the country, airstrikes by suspected U.S. unmanned aircraft...

BAGHDAD A roadside bomb killed a prominent member of Muqtada al-Sadr's political movement yesterday, raising fears of new internal Shiite bloodshed ahead of regional elections expected in January. The victim's allies blamed U.S. and Iraqi forces for the...

BAGHDAD (AP) _ Iraq's prime minister said Friday that the country's most influential Shiite cleric will leave the decision on the future of U.S. troops to the government and parliament — a step that could remove a major obstacle to a deal....