Suicide bombers attacked two police stations and a hospital in a city northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people and wounding 48 others before a parliamentary election. The attacks were the bloodiest in the immediate run-up to a...

Pakistani jets pounded militant hide-outs along the Afghan border and killed at least nine guerrillas, intelligence officials said Wednesday, part of a stepped-up campaign of airstrikes before an expected government offensive in South...

A suicide car bomber attacked a military vehicle in a crowded market in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens more, police and hospital officials said. The explosion occurred at the Alpuri market — whose shops...

At least 18 women and girls waiting to get free flour in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi died when the crowd around them swelled and a stampede occurred, officials said. The deaths came during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a traditional...

The tape emerged on radical Islamist Web sites, just two days after the United States marked the eighth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. “To the American people, this is my message to you: a reminder of the reasons behind...

The blistered black walls of the Hameed family’s bedroom tell of an unspeakable crime. Seven family members died here on Saturday, six of them burned to death by a mob that had broken into their house and shot the grandfather dead, just because they...

When Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the main election challenger to President Hamid Karzai, arrived here to campaign last weekend, thousands of supporters choked the six-mile drive from the airport. Cars were plastered with his posters. Motorbikes flew blue...

For the usually peaceful Norfolk countryside it was a startling sight: a suicide bomber appeared to blow himself up, seriously wounding a passer-by and scaring several sheep. Thankfully the attacker and his victim were acting. The site of the blast was...

From the window of a Pakistani army helicopter, the Swat valley looked serene and inviting, not at all like a battlefield in the country’s self-described fight for survival against Taliban extremists. Accounts from some of the 1.5 million...