President Bush held an emergency meeting of his top foreign policy aides Friday to discuss the deepening crisis in Pakistan, as administration officials and others explored whether Thursday's assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto marks the beginning of a new Islamic extremist offensive that could spread beyond Pakistan and undermine the U.S. war effort in neighboring Afghanistan. ...more

December 29, 2007

A suicide attacker detonated a powerful bomb inside a crowded mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 50 people and wounding 100 as they celebrated one of Islam's major holidays with the country's former interior minister, state-run media reported. ...more

December 22, 2007

Palestinians flooded the streets of the Gaza Strip by the tens of thousands Saturday in the biggest show of support for Hamas since the Islamic militants seized the territory in June. ...more

December 16, 2007

A powerful car bombing on Wednesday killed the likely next head of the army in the first such assassination targeting Lebanon's military, seen by many Lebanese as the only institution keeping the divided nation from breaking apart. ...more

December 13, 2007

Gunmen killed three people in an attack Saturday on a party office of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, police said - the first reported deaths apparently linked to Pakistan's current election campaign. ...more

December 9, 2007

Soon after he returned from eight years in exile, Nawaz Sharif reminded his followers he was the prime minister who made Pakistan a nuclear power. ...more

December 2, 2007

Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif will make another attempt to return from exile, his party said Thursday, setting up a new confrontation with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf before Pakistan's critical parliamentary elections. ...more

November 23, 2007

Pakistan eased its crackdown on opponents Saturday, releasing opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from house arrest and saying it will lift a state of emergency within a month. The government, however, blocked a meeting between a deposed Supreme Court justice and Bhutto, who pledged to lead a 185-mile protest march. ...more

November 11, 2007

Authorities sifting through clues in the devastating bombing of Benazir Bhutto's homecoming procession here questioned three men Saturday, a source close to the investigation said. ...more

October 21, 2007

Mahmoud Khalifa has tried five times to sneak into Europe. Each time, he was caught and sent back to Lebanon, the country where he was born but is denied some of the most basic rights because he is a Palestinian refugee. ...more

September 28, 2007