A suicide bomber pretending to need help with his car killed 34 people in northwest Pakistan while the target of another recent attack, the Marriott in Islamabad, partially reopened three months after a brazen truck bombing at the luxury hotel left 54 dead. ...more

December 29, 2008

In a new sign of rising tensions between two nuclear-armed neighbors, Indian foreign ministry officials summoned Pakistan's ambassador Monday evening and told him Pakistanis were responsible and must be punished for last week's terrorist attacks here, in which 172 people were killed over three days in the heart of India's commercial capital. ...more

December 2, 2008

A synchronized triple bombing in northern Baghdad killed 28 people early Monday, an Interior Ministry official said, which would make it the deadliest attack in Baghdad since June, when a car bombing killed 51. ...more

November 11, 2008

Suicide attacks have killed nearly 1,200 people in Pakistan since July 2007, most of them civilians, according to military statistics Monday that underscored the ferocity of the threat facing the U.S. ally in the war on extremist groups. ...more

September 30, 2008

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in a visit to Iran where he met Sunday with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pledged closer ties between the two neighbors at the same time Baghdad is negotiating a long-term security pact with the United States. ...more

June 9, 2008

A truck packed with rockets blew up Wednesday in a Shiite area of Baghdad, killing 18 people in the deadliest single blast in the city in more than three months. And three U.S. soldiers were killed by gunfire north of the capital. ...more

June 5, 2008

An anti-Taliban militia leader was the apparent target of a suicide bombing Sunday in southern Afghanistan that left at least 80 people dead and dozens injured, authorities said. ...more

February 18, 2008

The winners of what may be the most anticipated election this country has held will be settled the usual way Monday, by the number of ballots and fierce arguments over how they are counted. That, and perhaps the number of guns. ...more

February 17, 2008

PAKISTAN - Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son was chosen Sunday to succeed her as chairman of her opposition party, while her husband will serve as co-chairman, extending Pakistan's most famous political dynasty to a third generation, party officials said. ...more

December 30, 2007

The suicide attack that killed Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday cut short an epic life, one bathed in blood and awash with controversy. ...more

December 28, 2007