The Latest: Breakaway Taliban faction claims Quetta bombing
The Latest on the bombing at a hospital in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta (all times local):6 p.m. A breakaway faction of the Taliban in Pakistan has claimed responsibility…
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Militants kill 20 in assault on Pakistani university
By RIAZ KHAN and ZARAR KHAN Islamic militants stormed Pakistani university in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and triggering an hours-long gunbattle with security forces in…
Afghan defense minister says Taliban hid in bombed hospital
By LYNNE O’DONNELL Afghanistan’s acting defense minister said Monday that the Doctors Without Borders hospital bombed by U.S. forces in the northern city of Kunduz was being used by insurgents…
Indian authorities detain, then release Kashmiri separatists
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Indian authorities detained and later released two key Kashmiri separatist leaders Thursday ahead of talks between Indian and Pakistani security advisers, while a third remained under house…
Pakistan police officers, spy fired over child abuse case
A top government official in eastern Pakistan says he has fired a provincial intelligence chief and three senior police officers for failing to act against a gang that blackmailed the…
Italian authorities: Terror suspects planned Vatican attack
By COLLEEN BARRY Islamic extremists suspected in a bomb attack in a Pakistani market that killed more than 100 people had also planned an attack against the Vatican in 2010…
Afghan officials say 5 arrested for Pakistan school massacre
By RAHIM FAIEZ Afghan security services have arrested five men in connection with the massacre at a Pakistan military school last month that killed 150 people, most of them children,…
Pakistan: 77 militants killed after school massacre
By MUNIR AHMED Pakistani warplanes and ground forces killed at least 77 militants in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said Friday, days after Taliban fighters killed…