September 16, 2016
11:00 pm

US President Barack Obama meets with Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the White House in October 2013 (screen capture: YouTube)

Pakistan may be building new nuclear site — analysts

Experts say construction some 30km east of Islamabad is fresh evidence of country’s intentions to boost atomic arsenal

By AFP

September 1, 2016
3:41 pm

Israel Air Force F-16 fighter jets and a refueling plane fly in formation over Nevada during the United States Air Force's Red Flag exercise in August. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Israeli pilots return home after flying alongside Pakistan, UAE in US drill

IAF aircraft stage dogfights, aerial simulations with foreign militaries over Nevada desert in US Air Force’s Red Flag exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

August 19, 2016
10:46 pm

A US MH-60S Seahawk helicopter launches flares during a drill in the skies above the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Mediterranean Sea on July 25, 2012. (photo credit: Seaman Joshua E. Walters/ US Navy, Department of Defense)

2 US crashes, no serious injuries, at joint air exercises with Israel, Pakistan

4 hurt when chopper goes down, hours after jet pilot forced to eject; no confirmation of nationalities of wounded

By Ken Ritter

August 8, 2016
10:41 am

Pakistani lawyers use a stretcher to move an injured colleague after a bomb explosion at a government hospital premises in Quetta, August 8, 2016. (AFP/BANARAS KHAN)

63 killed in bombing in Pakistani city of Quetta

Dozens also injured in blast outside hospital after fatal shooting of prominent lawyer on his way to court

By Abdul Sattar

August 3, 2016
2:45 pm

Two Israel Air Force F-16 fighter jets. (Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Israel to fly alongside Pakistan, UAE in US Air Force drill

IAF pilots will take part in Red Flag exercise later this month in the Nevada desert to hone skills and make connections

By Judah Ari Gross

July 20, 2016
11:44 am

Police officers walk along train tracks in Wuerzburg southern Germany on July 19, 2016, a day after a man attacked train passengers with an ax. (AFP PHOTO / DANIEL ROLAND)

Doubt cast on nationality of teen migrant ax attacker

German authorities suspect radicalized 17-year-old Pakistani claimed to be Afghan refugee to increase his chances of getting asylum

By Tom BARFIELD and Deborah Cole

July 16, 2016
5:14 pm

Pakistani model Qandeel Baloch in a music video (YouTube screenshot)

Risqué Pakistani social media star murdered by brother for ‘honor’

Youth hero Qandeel Baloch broke many social taboos in the deeply Muslim nation, enraging conservatives

By shazia Bhatti

July 10, 2016
5:32 pm

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (AP Photo)

Bin Laden’s son threatens revenge against US

Al-Qaeda scion warns Americans of ‘punishment’ coming for the ‘sinful crime’ of killing his father in 2011

By AP

July 6, 2016
9:28 pm

Moroccan Muslim men perform prayers for Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in the city of Sale, north of the Moroccan capital Rabat on July 6, 2016. (AFP Photo/Fadel Senna)

Muslims mark end of a Ramadan marred by deadly attacks

Wave of violence in past month — from Turkey and Bangladesh to Iraq and Saudi Arabia — makes this year’s celebrations a somber occasion

By AFP

July 1, 2016
3:09 pm

US President Barack Obama waves as he walks out from the White House in Washington,DC before his departure for the North American Leaders Summit in Ottawa on June 29, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / YURI GRIPAS)US President Barack Obama waves as he walks out from the White House in Washington, DC before his departure for the North American Leaders Summit in Ottawa on June 29, 2016. (AFP Photo/Yuri Gripas)

Sources: Obama to reveal civilian deaths from drones

White House to disclose casualties in strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia, but not Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY and Deb Riechmann

June 20, 2016
10:17 am

In this April 14, 2016 photo, Syrian refugees look through the gate of a grocery store at the al-Azraq refugee camp in northeast Jordan. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)

UN says record 65 million people displaced in 2015

Highest figures since the end of World War II driven by continued conflicts, mainly in the Middle East, Africa

By Agencies and Times of Israel staff

June 18, 2016
12:12 pm

French police officers work at the crime scene the day after a knife-wielding attacker stabbed a senior police officer to death Monday evening outside his home in Magnanville, west of Paris, France, Tuesday, June 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Two suspects linked to French police killer in court

Men were convicted in September 2013 as part of a network to send jihadists to Pakistan

By AFP

June 17, 2016
10:23 am

Pakistani men cool off with water collected from a leaking water supply line on a hot afternoon in Islamabad on June 15, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / FAROOQ NAEEM)

Parents ‘kill pregnant woman for honor’ in Pakistan

Muqaddas Bibi, 22, mother of a 10-month-old daughter, murdered for marrying against family’s will

By AFP

May 26, 2016
8:06 am

An Afghan man reads a local newspaper with photos the former leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, who was killed in a US drone strike a week earlier, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 25, 2016. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Little-known extremist cleric chosen to lead Afghan Taliban

Appointment of Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzad by group’s Pakistani leaders comes days after predecessor killed in US drone strike

By LYNNE O'DONNELL and Mirwais Khan

May 7, 2016
5:05 pm

London's new mayor, Sadiq Khan, looks at his watch during the official signing ceremony in Southwark Cathedral, London, Saturday May 7, 2016. (Yui Mok/Pool via AP)

Sadiq Khan: An immigrant son’s rise from London public housing to mayor

Labour MP, fierce critic of anti-Semitism within party, was UK’s first Muslim cabinet minister. Now he’s first of Islamic faith to lead capital

By Robin MILLARD

Topic: Pakistan

Pakistan may be building new nuclear site — analysts

Experts say construction some 30km east of Islamabad is fresh evidence of country’s intentions to boost atomic arsenal

Israeli pilots return home after flying alongside Pakistan, UAE in US drill

IAF aircraft stage dogfights, aerial simulations with foreign militaries over Nevada desert in US Air Force’s Red Flag exercise

2 US crashes, no serious injuries, at joint air exercises with Israel, Pakistan

4 hurt when chopper goes down, hours after jet pilot forced to eject; no confirmation of nationalities of wounded

63 killed in bombing in Pakistani city of Quetta

Dozens also injured in blast outside hospital after fatal shooting of prominent lawyer on his way to court

Israel to fly alongside Pakistan, UAE in US Air Force drill

IAF pilots will take part in Red Flag exercise later this month in the Nevada desert to hone skills and make connections

Doubt cast on nationality of teen migrant ax attacker

German authorities suspect radicalized 17-year-old Pakistani claimed to be Afghan refugee to increase his chances of getting asylum

Risqué Pakistani social media star murdered by brother for ‘honor’

Youth hero Qandeel Baloch broke many social taboos in the deeply Muslim nation, enraging conservatives

Bin Laden’s son threatens revenge against US

Al-Qaeda scion warns Americans of ‘punishment’ coming for the ‘sinful crime’ of killing his father in 2011

Muslims mark end of a Ramadan marred by deadly attacks

Wave of violence in past month — from Turkey and Bangladesh to Iraq and Saudi Arabia — makes this year’s celebrations a somber occasion

Sources: Obama to reveal civilian deaths from drones

White House to disclose casualties in strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia, but not Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria

UN says record 65 million people displaced in 2015

Highest figures since the end of World War II driven by continued conflicts, mainly in the Middle East, Africa

Two suspects linked to French police killer in court

Men were convicted in September 2013 as part of a network to send jihadists to Pakistan

Parents ‘kill pregnant woman for honor’ in Pakistan

Muqaddas Bibi, 22, mother of a 10-month-old daughter, murdered for marrying against family’s will

Little-known extremist cleric chosen to lead Afghan Taliban

Appointment of Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzad by group’s Pakistani leaders comes days after predecessor killed in US drone strike

Sadiq Khan: An immigrant son’s rise from London public housing to mayor

Labour MP, fierce critic of anti-Semitism within party, was UK’s first Muslim cabinet minister. Now he’s first of Islamic faith to lead capital

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