
The Taliban is running wild in Kabul, killing and maiming Afghan soldiers on a daily basis, and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told a national audience Monday night that neighboring Pakistan is partly to blame for the chaos in his country.
by Jordan Schachtel11 Aug 2015, 7:50 PM PST0

An alleged Pakistani terrorist from the Lashker-e-Taiba (LT) Islamist militant group was apprehended in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday after he and an accomplice carried out a deadly attack and hours-long gun battle exchange which killed two members of
by Adelle Nazarian6 Aug 2015, 12:15 PM PST0

21-year-old Afghan pilot Niloofar Rahmani says she has been driven to the verge of quitting by the Taliban and her own extended family.
by John Hayward6 Aug 2015, 11:28 AM PST0

The summer is known as the “cutting season.” This means that infants as young as two or three months old are being taken out of the UK to be genitally mutilated in their countries of origin, such as Malaysia, whose customs, like those of Iran, have become increasingly Arabized.
by Dr. Phyllis Chesler3 Aug 2015, 9:13 AM PST0

Sources told the BBC that Afghani Jalaluddin Haqqani, who founded the terrorist Haqqani network syndicate, died at least a year ago after a long illness.
by Mary Chastain31 Jul 2015, 9:38 PM PST0

Contents: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader Malik Ishaq killed in gunfight in Pakistan; Bizarre Mullah Omar death announcement seals fate of Afghan peace talks; Mullah Omar’s impossible conditions for Afghan peace talks
by John J. Xenakis30 Jul 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) seeks to unite the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban into a single terrorist army, would like to see al-Qaeda join its ranks, and is planning to provoke an Armageddon-like confrontation with the U.S. by attacking India, according to an apparent ISIS recruitment document.
by Edwin Mora28 Jul 2015, 11:54 AM PST0

British foreign aid money is helping fund executions in Pakistan, a human rights group has claimed. Legal charity Reprieve, which campaigns against the death penalty, says that nearly £13 million has been used to fund anti-drugs operations in the country,
by Nick Hallett28 Jul 2015, 5:44 AM PST0

Iqbal Baig, a member of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency, was shot and killed by unknown assailants in Islamabad, Pakistan. Early Sunday morning, the gunmen broke into the U.S. embassy worker’s home and murdered him.
by Michael Lucchese27 Jul 2015, 9:50 PM PST0

Hostilities flared in Indian-held Kashmir after a right-wing Hindu group set a Muslim flag ablaze, claiming it was the banner of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), the Journal of Turkish Weekly reports.
by Edwin Mora24 Jul 2015, 8:19 AM PST0

The House Foreign Affairs Committee hosted experts on the Middle East on Thursday to examine the new Iran deal and its consequences for U.S. national security and foreign policy. Committee chair Ed Royce (R-CA) put the question to expert witnesses and fellow representatives: “[A]re temporary constraints on Iran’s nuclear program worth the price of permanent sanctions relief?”
by Adelle Nazarian23 Jul 2015, 1:21 PM PST0

On Tuesday, a Pakistani immigrant working in New Orleans as a cab driver pled guilty to counts of simple rape and second-degree kidnapping two years after he forced himself on a passed-out passenger.
by Katie McHugh22 Jul 2015, 9:12 PM PST0

SRINAGAR, India, July 19 (Reuters) – Indian and Pakistani forces traded fire across their disputed frontier over the weekend, when Muslims celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr, injuring several civilians and raising tension despite a recent agreement aimed at improving
by Reuters19 Jul 2015, 4:26 AM PST0

Contents: Arab views of Iran nuclear deal; Another Arab view of Iran’s nuclear deal; Generational Dynamics view of Iran nuclear deal; Congratulations to my readers for sticking with all this
by John J. Xenakis15 Jul 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Contents: Pope Francis in Paraguay alludes to 1860s War of the Triple Alliance; Distrust of Greece dominates indecisive Eurogroup meeting on Saturday; France and Italy welcome Greece’s proposals
by John J. Xenakis12 Jul 2015, 5:21 AM PST0

Crossbencher Baroness Flather has been blasted by the Muslim Council of Britain for her remarks on the congenital disabilities caused by close-relation marriage, calling her ‘bigoted’ for expressing concern for the welfare of Pakistani-community children born of such relationships. The
by Oliver Lane8 Jul 2015, 5:33 AM PST0

India’s intelligence agencies believe the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) might spread its caliphate and horror into India as they inch closer to Afghanistan/Pakistan held territories.
by Mary Chastain5 Jul 2015, 6:33 AM PST0

The Saudi embassy in Islamabad has been in contact with the Haqqani Network, a Sunni Islamist organization that operates along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and is considered the most lethal and sophisticated group targeting U.S. and Afghan forces, documents released by WikiLeaks reveal.
by Edwin Mora29 Jun 2015, 2:02 PM PST0

Contents: Pakistan gives ‘Save the Children’ a partial reprieve; Turkey denies responsibility for ISIS massacre on Kurds in Kobani; European leaders prepare for Greece to default
by John J. Xenakis26 Jun 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

A Pakistani Christian man named Nadeem took secret video footage detailing his life in a refugee camp where he faces harassment and threats on a regular basis. In the video which was posted to YouTube, Nadeem explains that it is Muslims — the majority of which are Syrians that fled their war-torn country — who treat him and his fellow Christians this way.
by Adelle Nazarian25 Jun 2015, 7:25 PM PST0

Members of Afghanistan’s intelligence service have accused a Pakistani intelligence officer in the country’s infamous Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) unit of helping the Taliban launch a sophisticated attack on the Afghan Parliament in Kabul on Monday.
by Jordan Schachtel25 Jun 2015, 11:46 AM PST0

Contents: Syrian Kurd militias deal a heavy blow to ISIS; Turkey’s support splits between Kurds and ISIS; US support for Kurds further alienates Saudi Arabia; Understanding men’s moustaches in Turkey
by John J. Xenakis24 Jun 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

According to the State Department, the number of terrorist attacks worldwide increased by one third in 2014, with 80 percent more fatalities. The report also stated the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has replaced al-Qaeda as the world’s largest terrorist group.
by Mary Chastain21 Jun 2015, 8:17 PM PST0

Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claims that the two hostages who were killed in a U.S. drone strike in January, one American and one Italian, converted to Islam prior to their death, reports a jihadist activity monitor group.
by Edwin Mora19 Jun 2015, 5:58 PM PST0

Three sisters from Bradford and their nine children aged from three to 15 are today reported missing amid suspicion that they are attempting to reach either Islamic State (IS) or other extremist forces in Syria. Having last been heard of on 9
by Sarkis Zeronian16 Jun 2015, 5:31 AM PST0