China To Strengthen Defenses, No Word On Budget
China pledged more support for its military on Sunday including strengthening maritime and air defenses as it takes steps to ...
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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 ...
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 a ...
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 ending a de ...
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 first ...
UN Drugs Board Criticises Killings In Philippines
The UN-linked International Narcotics Control Board on Thursday condemned the use of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, where President Rodrigo ...
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 ...
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 security officials confirmed attacks ...
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 left ...
Blasts, Gunfire Rock Afghan Capital
Explosions and gunfire echoed through Kabul in two separate Taliban assaults on security buildings Wednesday, officials said, as the insurgents ...
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 insisted that Trump would ...
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 cash ...
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 Tuesday, amid ...
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 national security ...
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 ...
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, officials ...
A Tale of Two Afghan Friends
Two Afghan friends were incarcerated together at Guantanamo Bay, but they chose starkly divergent paths after release -- one became ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 batch to be ...