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Pakistan’s Financial Capital Karachi Turned ‘into Rubbish Bin’

Neighbours forced their way into Mohammad Umair's home battling smoke and flames in a desperate bid to rescue his young...

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Qaeda Confirms Coalition Strike Killed Top Leader In Syria

Al-Qaeda has confirmed that top leader Abu Khayr al-Masri, believed to be the organisation's number two, was killed in...

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Pakistan Plans To End Separate Status For ‘tribal Areas’

Pakistan on Thursday announced plans to bring its militancy-wracked tribal areas into the mainstream political fold by...

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US Drone Kills Two On Motorbike In Pakistan

A US drone on Thursday killed two men riding a motorbike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, officials said, the...

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UN Drugs Board Criticises Killings In Philippines

The UN-linked International Narcotics Control Board on Thursday condemned the use of extrajudicial killings in the...

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George W. Bush Exhibits His Portraits of US War Veterans

After putting down his executive pen former US President George W. Bush picked up a paint brush -- and the hobby has...

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Taliban Claim Attacks In Afghan Capital, At Least 15 Dead

Afghan Taliban militants said they attacked police, military and intelligence targets in Kabul on Wednesday, as...

International

Simultaneous Taliban Attacks Kill At Least 16 In Kabul

Two attacks struck the Afghan capital at almost the same time on Wednesday Almost simultaneous attacks in Kabul have...

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Blasts, Gunfire Rock Afghan Capital

Explosions and gunfire echoed through Kabul in two separate Taliban assaults on security buildings Wednesday, officials...

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Trump Says He’s Boosting Defense Spending By $54 Billion; the Real Number Is $18 Billion

In the days before President Donald Trump’s high-profile address to Congress Tuesday night, White House aides...

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How Could the Pentagon Spend Extra Billions? Easily

President Donald Trump has outlined a goal to hike American military spending by nearly 10 percent, shoveling yet more...

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US Probing Whether Al-Qaeda Number Two Killed In Syria

The American government is investigating whether Al-Qaeda's number two has been killed in Syria, an official told AFP...

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Trump Blames Obama For Town Hall Protests and Security Leaks

US President Donald Trump has said he believes Barack Obama is behind the protests against Republican lawmakers, and...

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Eleven Afghan Police Killed In Insider Attack

An Afghan policeman linked to the Taliban shot dead 11 of his colleagues at a checkpoint in the southern province of...

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Air Strike Kills Key Afghan Taliban Commander

An air strike has killed an Afghan Taliban commander who twice oversaw the capture of a strategic northern city,...

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A Tale of Two Afghan Friends

Two Afghan friends were incarcerated together at Guantanamo Bay, but they chose starkly divergent paths after release...

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Bush To Unveil Portraits of ‘war On Terror’ US Veterans

Former US president George W. Bush has kept a low profile since leaving the White House in 2009. But he is set to...

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Afghan Deportation Flight Left From Germany Half Empty

The German government admitted Friday it deported fewer than half the Afghans who were due to be repatriated on a...

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Germany Deports Third Batch of Afghan Migrants To Kabul

Eighteen Afghans deported from Germany arrived in Kabul Thursday after their asylum pleas were rejected, the third...