KARACHI: Bodies of 12 victims of the Russian cargo plane were recovered on Sunday, while rescuers remained unable to recover the plane’s black box from the rubble.

The admission by Gen Sir David Richards, the head of the Armed Forces, that he would not counsel the Queen to permit Prince William to serve in Afghanistan will assuredly have dismayed the second-in-line to the throne.

One of the worst floods in the history of Pakistan eclipsed the Independence Day celebrations on Saturday, as many events were cancelled by the government and festivities across the nation wore a sombre look.

A fire at a hotel in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya killed 40 people, including foreigners, and injured at least 23 others, a hospital source said on Friday. A security official said the fire in Iraq’s relatively stable and violence-free...

A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives near a mosque inside a police compound in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 10 people in the latest attack by suspected Taliban militants waging war against the Pakistani government. The Taliban have...

A car bombing outside a politician’s home in central Pakistan has killed 22 people and wounded 70 others. Tuesday’s attack in Dera Ghazi Khan town in Punjab province is the latest in a series to hit Pakistan in recent months. Islamist...

At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations...

As violence rises in Afghanistan, the power balance between insurgent groups has shifted, with a weakened al-Qaeda relying increasingly on the emboldened Taliban for protection and the manpower to carry out deadly attacks, according to U.S. military and...

Al-Qaida is losing its influence because of a shortage of funds, while the Taliban is thriving on the proceeds of criminal activities, according to analysis by the US treasury. David Cohen, the department’s assistant secretary for terrorist...

Reporting from Washington - The U.S. military commander in Afghanistan says he has evidence that factions of Pakistani and Iranian spy services are supporting insurgent groups that carry out attacks on coalition troops. Taliban fighters in Afghanistan...