Top Pentagon and State Department officials said yesterday that U.S. Special Forces would enter Pakistan if they had specific intelligence about an impending terrorist strike against the United States, despite warnings from the Pakistani government that it would not accept U.S. troops operating...
Four rockets crashed into a city in northwest Pakistan Wednesday, killing 10 people, wounding 40 and stoking the confrontation between Islamic militants and the government.
Islamic militants fired a barrage of rockets into a town in northwest Pakistan early Wednesday, killing at least nine civilians and injuring 41 amid a wave of violence sweeping the country.
WASHINGTON— The Bush administration's strategy for pursuing al Qaida in Pakistan's tribal region could stoke support for the Islamic militants who are protecting the terrorist network's leaders and battling Pakistan's U.S.-backed military regime, some U.S. diplomatic and defense officials and experts warn.
White House officials told Congress Wednesday the United States would be willing to launch military strikes against al-Qaida bases inside Pakistan.
Suspected militants fired four rockets into a city in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 10 people as they slammed into houses and a mosque, police said.
Afghanistan and Pakistan tribal elders will assemble next month to evolve a common mechanism to counter a growing Taliban threat that has sharply strained ties between the already uneasy neighbors.
Islamic militants fired a barrage of rockets into a city in northwest Pakistan, killing at least eight civilians and injuring 41 amid a wave of violence sweeping the country.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) -- Islamist militants fired rockets into a northwestern Pakistani town on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and wounding nearly 40, police said, amid mounting violence along the Afghanistan frontier.
A U.S. State Department official says the United States wants to work with Pakistan on counterterrorism and not infringe on Pakistani sovereignty.