KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani commandos were close to regaining control of a naval base Monday as they hunted for any last holdouts among a team of Taliban militants who attacked and occupied the facility for 15 hours, destroying two U.S.-supplied planes and killing 12 security officers. The Pakistani Taliban... more »
HABQADAR, Pakistan (AP) - A pair of Taliban suicide bombers attacked paramilitary police recruits eagerly heading home for a break after months of training, killing 80 people Friday in the first act of retaliation for the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden. In claiming responsibility, the al-Qaida linked militant... more »
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - The U.S. carried out its first drone attack in Pakistan since Osama bin Laden's death in an American raid this week, killing 10 people in a hail of missiles near the Afghan border Friday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strike took place in North Waziristan, an... more »
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's president denied suggestions his country's security forces may have sheltered Osama bin Laden before he was killed by American forces, and said their cooperation with the United States helped pinpoint the world's most wanted man. Asif Ali Zardari said, however, that Monday's operation against bin... more »
The flooding in Pakistan is among the worst natural disasters of our time. Now, local doctors are reaching out and raising money to help. More than twenty million people have been affected by the flooding, and at least 1,500 are dead from it. Dr. Jamil Farooqui's family lives in one... more »
ISLAMABAD (AP) - A government official says all 152 people on board a plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. Imtiaz Elahi, the chairman of the Capital Development Authority, told The Associated Press that earlier reports of five survivors from the crash were wrong and that... more »
The funeral was held Wednesday morning for an eastern Kentucky soldier whose body finally came home after winter weather caused a long and painful delay for his loved ones. The family of 35-year-old Sergeant Matthew Sluss-Tiller, from Lawrence County, planned to have his visitation earlier this month, but because of... more »
A soldier from Lawrence County was among six people killed in a suicide bomb blast Wednesday in Pakistan that also wounded at least 70. WSAZ.com is reporting that the mother of Matthew Sluss-Tiller, 35, says he is one of three U.S. soldiers killed in that blast, which went off near... more »
SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan (AP) - Three U.S. soldiers traveling with Pakistan security force members were killed Wednesday and one wounded in a roadside bombing in northwest Pakistan that also injured dozens of schoolgirls, officials said. The soldiers were in the region as part of a small, little-publicized U.S. mission to... more »
