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More than 50 people were killed and more than 100 wounded after an explosion tore through a Shiite mosque in one of the worst terrorist attacks in Pakistan in years. [...]

Byline: Mark Mazzetti and Ismail Khan If the U.S. military withdrawal does not lead to a further descent into chaos in Afghanistan, next-door Pakistan could be the real winner. WASHINGTON [...]

If the U.S. military withdrawal does not lead to a further descent into chaos in Afghanistan, next-door Pakistan could be the real winner. WASHINGTON -- It was three days after [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Pakistani troops clashed with protesters on Sunday near the border with Afghanistan, leaving at least three people dead and scores wounded, officials said. The violence broke out [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A candidate from a political party opposed to the Taliban was killed in a suicide bombing late Tuesday as he campaigned in northwestern Pakistan, just weeks before [...]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Pakistani Taliban have confirmed the death of their deputy commander in an American drone strike in Afghanistan last week. The commander's death is a blow to [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Four or more Taliban militants disguised as women attacked a university dormitory in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least nine people and [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A Pakistan International Airlines plane with 48 people on board, including a famous former pop singer, crashed near Abbottabad in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, government officials and [...]

Byline: CHRISTINE HAUSER and ISMAIL KHAN An Afghan woman whose photograph as a young refugee with piercing green eyes was published on the cover of National Geographic in 1985, becoming [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- At least 22 people were killed in the bombing of a mosque in the western Pakistani tribal region of Mohmand on Friday, officials said. The explosion occurred [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber killed at least 11 people at a district court in northwestern Pakistan on Friday morning, a senior police officer said. The bomber attacked the [...]

Byline: ISMAIL KHAN and JAWAD SUKHANYAR PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Pakistani and Afghan forces exchanged heavy gunfire on Sunday and Monday in an unusually serious escalation of tensions at their border, [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Pakistani and Afghan forces exchanged heavy gunfire on Sunday and Monday in an unusually serious escalation of tensions at the border, leaving at least 13 people wounded [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- At least 14 people were killed and 53 others wounded on Wednesday when a bomb destroyed a bus carrying government employees to work in the city of [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Sixteen people were killed Monday morning, including two police officers, when a bomber detonated his suicide vest after shooting his way into a court compound about 20 [...]

Byline: DECLAN WALSH, IHSANULLAH TIPU MEHSUD and ISMAIL KHAN CAIRO -- Attacks on education have long been a signature atrocity of the Pakistani Taliban, whose militants have set schools on [...]

Byline: ISMAIL KHAN PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- At least 22 people were killed on Wednesday when militants attacked a university campus in northwestern Pakistan, a police official said. A leader of [...]

CAIRO -- Attacks on education have long been a signature atrocity of the Pakistani Taliban, whose militants have set schools on fire, banished girls from classrooms and gunned down students [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- An explosion, said to be a suicide bombing, at a militia checkpoint just outside this Pakistani city killed eight people and wounded at least 11 on Tuesday [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber struck a regional branch of Pakistan's National Database and Registration Authority in Mardan on Tuesday, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Taliban militants shot and killed at least 30 people, including 16 people in a mosque, at an air force base near this city in northwestern Pakistan on [...]

Byline: ISMAIL KHAN PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- At least four people were killed and 50 others were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest in the middle of a [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- At least four people were killed and 50 others were wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest in the middle of a crowd [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Afghan government officials and Taliban representatives are set to meet again for a second round of peace talks on Friday, two Pakistani government officials said Tuesday. The [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Two senior Pakistani militants who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State were among at least 24 people killed in an American drone strike in eastern Afghanistan [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Dozens of militants and Pakistani soldiers have died in fierce fighting as part of a new effort by the military to gain control of the Tirah Valley, [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Education officials in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have renamed more than a hundred schools in honor of the children killed last year in a Taliban attack on [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Determined to curb Pakistan's polio crisis, police officials in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa said Friday that they had issued hundreds of arrest warrants for parents for [...]

Byline: ISMAIL KHAN PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Heavily armed militants killed at least 19 people and wounded more than 40 after they stormed into a Shiite mosque during Friday Prayer in [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Heavily armed militants killed at least 19 people and wounded more than 40 after they stormed into a Shiite mosque during Friday Prayer in a suburb of [...]

Byline: ISMAIL KHAN PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Gunfire rang out as Fatima Bibi squeezed off three shots, hitting her target every time. Then she lowered her Glock pistol, turned to her [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Gunfire rang out as Fatima Bibi squeezed off three shots, hitting her target every time. Then she lowered her Glock pistol, turned to her fellow academics and [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDPESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The survivors of a massacre at a Pakistani school last month returned to their school on Monday, offering a grief-tinged show of defiance and apprehension. It [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- At least six foreign militants were believed to have been killed in an American drone strike in the North Waziristan tribal region on Sunday morning, a Pakistani [...]

Byline: ISMAIL KHAN PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- At least nine suspected militants, including four foreigners, were killed in two separate drone strikes in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, a Pakistani security official [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- At least nine people suspected of being militants, including four foreigners, were killed in two separate drone strikes in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, a Pakistani security official [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Six militants were killed in an American drone strike in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, the first since Taliban fighters killed 148 people, mostly schoolchildren, in [...]

Byline: ISMAIL KHAN PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The Pakistani military said on Friday that it had killed 62 militants in clashes near the border with Afghanistan, stepping up operations against insurgents [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Military action against the Pakistani Taliban intensified on both sides of the border with Afghanistan on Friday, officials said, in a reflection of hardening resolve to fight [...]

Byline: ISMAIL KHAN PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- As Pakistani Taliban gunmen strode through the corridors and classrooms of the Army Public School and Degree College on Tuesday, spraying teachers and pupils [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- As Pakistani Taliban gunmen strode through the corridors and classrooms of the Army Public School on Tuesday, spraying teachers and pupils with bullets, one paused from his [...]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Pakistan's army and intelligence chiefs traveled to Afghanistan on Wednesday to seek help locating the Pakistani Taliban commanders responsible for the massacre of students at a school [...]

Byline: ISMAIL KHAN PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The Pakistani military said that it had killed a senior leader of Al Qaeda wanted in the United States on charges of plotting to [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDPESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The Pakistani military said Saturday that it had killed a senior leader of Al Qaeda wanted in the United States on charges of plotting to bomb [...]

A Pakistani security official has reported a new American airstrike, saying a drone killed six foreign militants on Tuesday in the North Waziristan tribal region. It was not immediately possible [...]