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Pakistan Victims Call For Attack Masterminds To Hang

Anger was growing in Pakistan Tuesday as the grief-stricken relatives of 26 people killed by a suicide bomber in Lahore...

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Violence Against Afghan Journalists Soars

At least 10 journalists were killed in Afghanistan in the first half of 2017, a 35 percent surge from last year, a...

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Blast Kills At Least 25, Injures Dozens In Pakistan’s Lahore

An explosion killed at least 25 people and injured dozens in a busy vegetable market in the Pakistani city of Lahore...

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Blast Kills At Least 20, Injures Dozens In Pakistan’s Lahore

An explosion killed at least 20 people and injured dozens in a busy vegetable market in the Pakistani city of Lahore...

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Pentagon Blocks Some Pakistan Military Payments

The US Defense Department has withheld $50 million in Pakistan military payments after Pentagon chief Jim Mattis...

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‘Taliban’ Suicide Bomber Kills Two In NW Pakistan

A suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) in Pakistan's northwest on...

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Afghan Girls Robotics Team Land In US After Visa U-Turn

A team of Afghan girls who were earlier denied visas to attend a Washington robotics competition landed in the United...

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US Soldier Killed In Afghanistan’s Helmand

A US soldier has been killed and two others wounded in an attack in Afghanistan's Helmand province, US military...

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McCain Calls For Pakistani ‘cooperation’ Against Extremists

US Senator John McCain visited Kabul Tuesday and warned neighbouring Pakistan that Washington was counting on its...

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McCain-Led Delegation Visits Pakistan For Security Talks

A high-level US Senate delegation met Pakistan's top foreign affairs official and powerful military chief in Islamabad...

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No NATO Combat Role In Afghanistan

NATO allies will increase troop numbers in Afghanistan to help the government battle a resurgent Taliban but there is...

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Afghans Suffer Deadliest Ramadan Since 2001

Afghanistan has suffered its deadliest Ramadan since the US-led invasion in 2001 with over 200 killed and hundreds...

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US Ends Role of Special Envoy To Afghanistan and Pakistan

The United States abolished the role of its special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan on Friday, just as it prepares to...

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‘Multiple Casualties As Car Bomb Hits Bank In South Afghanistan’

A powerful car bomb Thursday struck a bank in Afghanistan's Lashkar Gah city when civilian and military government...

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Afghan Taliban Release New Video of US, Australian Hostages

An American and an Australian have appeared in a second Taliban hostage video, nearly a year after they were kidnapped...

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UN Chief Calls For Aid To Afghanistan As Conflict Spirals

Sitting cross-legged with war-displaced women in a mud-brick settlement on Kabul's outskirts, UN Secretary General...

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Trump Lets Pentagon Set Afghanistan Troop Levels

President Donald Trump has granted the Pentagon authority to set troop levels in Afghanistan, a US official said...

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Taliban Deputy Leader Insists No Hand In Kabul Attacks

The head of the Taliban-allied Haqqani network has ruled out any involvement in a wave of deadly bombings in Kabul,...

International

Afghan Soldier Kills 3 US Service Members

Three US soldiers were killed and another wounded during a joint US-Afghan military operation in Nangarhar Province on...