THE UNELECTED 'ALT-RIGHT' FIGUREHEAD RUNNING THE WHITE HOUSE

The progressive plutocrats in Silicon Valley, Mr Bannon said, want unlimited ability to go around the world and bring people back to the United States... READ MORE›

AMID KABUL WINTER, AFGHAN WAR REFUGEES SHIVER IN FRIGID INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS

Last year alone, between 600,000 and 700,000 Afghans returned from Pakistan, pressured to leave by authorities there and promised assistance by Afghan officials... READ MORE›

'WHY LET 'EM IN?' UNDERSTANDING BANNON'S WORLDVIEW AND THE POLICIES THAT FOLLOW.

The progressive plutocrats in Silicon Valley, Bannon said, want unlimited ability to go around the world and bring people back to the United States... READ MORE›

AP FACT CHECK: TRUMP CLAIMS ON TRAVEL BAN MISLEADING, WRONG

Before Trump's executive order was signed, some people were eligible to skip an in-person interview if they met a variety of requirements... READ MORE›

IRAN'S FM ZARIF BLASTS TRUMP'S TRAVEL BAN

Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif has blasted Donald Trump's travel ban on nationals from seven majority Muslim countries... READ MORE›

GLOBAL BACKLASH GROWS AGAINST DONALD TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION ORDER

Part of the president's order gives preferential treatment to Christians who try to enter the United States from majority-Muslim countries... READ MORE›

TRUMP LEFT COUNTRIES WITH HIGH TERROR RISK OFF HIS BANNED LIST

Further raising security alarms, the Taliban has infiltrated the Afghan security forces supplying these immigrants... READ MORE›

EUROPE, MIDEAST PUSH BACK AGAINST TRUMP REFUGEE BAN AMID MORE TRAVEL TENSIONS

An influential Iraqi Shia cleric also said on Sunday that American nationals should leave Iraq, in retaliation for the travel ban... READ MORE›

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION PLAN

Can Trump block entry of immigrants who already received visas and traveled to the United States?... READ MORE›

PASSENGERS, STUDENTS, OSCAR NOMINEES AMONG THOSE LEFT IN LIMBO BY TRUMP TRAVEL BAN

WestJet spokeswoman Lauren Stewart said the airline would give full refunds to anyone affected by the ban... READ MORE›

'THESE ARE PEOPLE'S LIVES THEY ARE PLAYING WITH'

They informed him that the American Embassy in Baghdad had sent a communique saying the family could no longer travel on to the United States... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN TESTS LONG-RANGE SURFACE-TO-SURFACE BALLISTIC MISSILE

Pakistan has conducted its first successful flight test of surface-to-surface ballistic missile, which has a maximum range of 2200 kilometers, the military said Tuesday... READ MORE›

WILL PRESIDENT TRUMP RESTART THE DRONE WAR IN PAKISTAN?

The United States has killed more than 50 al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in Pakistan since the beginning of the CIA drone campaign... READ MORE›

PAKISTANI TALIBAN CLAIM DEADLY MARKET BOMBING

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack... READ MORE›

DEADLY BLAST ROCKS MARKET IN PAKISTAN'S NORTHWEST

A bomb blast ripped through a vegetable market in Pakistan's northwestern tribal area, killing at least 20 people and wounding 50 others... READ MORE›

IN AFGHANISTAN, TRUMP WILL INHERIT A COSTLY STALEMATE AND FEW SOLUTIONS

On the rare occasions Trump has spoken about Afghanistan, he has sounded as conflicted as his predecessor... READ MORE›

'AFGHAN GIRL' SHARBAT GULA IN QUEST FOR NEW LIFE

But I didn't expect that the Pakistani government would treat me like this at the end, Sharbat Gula told me at her temporary residence in Kabul... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN COURT STAYS KHIZAR HAYAT'S EXECUTION

The execution was temporarily stayed until January 30 by the Lahore High Court, The Justice Project Pakistan JPP group, which is managing his case, said on Thursday... READ MORE›

TROOPS ACTED IN SELF-DEFENSE IN AFGHAN FIREFIGHT THAT KILLED 33

A??On this occasion the Taliban chose to hide amongst civilians and then attacked Afghan and U.S. forces,a??... READ MORE›

US HITS BRITISH MEMBER OF ISLAMIC STATE'S 'BEATLES' CELL

Also Tuesday, the department designated the Indonesia-based Jamaah Ansharut Daulah as a terrorist organization... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN TESTS 1ST SEABORNE NUCLEAR-CAPABLE MISSILE IN INDIAN OCEAN

Pakistan tests 1st seaborne nuclear-capable missile in Indian Ocean -- RT News... READ MORE›

AWARD-WINNING INDIAN ACTOR OM PURI DIES AT 66

Puri appeared in a number of British films, notably Richard Attenborough's 1982 epic on the life of India's independence movement leader Mahatma Gandhi... READ MORE›

MAN WRONGLY ARRESTED OVER BERLIN ATTACK SAYS HE FEARS FOR HIS LIFE

Despite this, he said, he was arrested and tortured by Pakistani forces in Balochistan last year, after which he left for Germany... READ MORE›

2016: THE YEAR THE WORLD STOPPED CARING ABOUT REFUGEES

Deportations of Afghan refugees from Pakistan swelled this year, with 100,000 repatriated in September alone... READ MORE›

THE AFGHAN FAMILIES BEING REPATRIATED BY PAKISTAN

Pakistan's request for all three million Afghan refugees to leave is causing chaos on its borders and plunging families into uncertainty... READ MORE›

NEARLY 30 CHRISTIANS IN PAKISTAN DIE AFTER DRINKING TOXIC ALCOHOL ON CHRISTMAS

Most residents of the Mubarakabad neighborhood of Toba Tek Singh, where the alcohol was consumed, are Christians, a minority in Pakistan... READ MORE›

'GET OFF TWITTER! WHERE'S OLD RED PHONE?'

Pakistan Israel talk nuke war on social media 'Get off Twitter! Where's old red phone?'... READ MORE›

AFGHANS ANGRY AFTER QUALIFIED FEMALE AIR FORCE PILOT APPLIES FOR ASYLUM IN U.S.

A recipient of the U.S. State Department's Women of Courage award in 2015, Capt... READ MORE›

FAKE NEWS STORY PROMPTS PAKISTAN TO ISSUE NUCLEAR WARNING TO ISRAEL

A fake news story has touched off a Twitter confrontation between nuclear powers Pakistan and Israel... READ MORE›

TALIBAN DEMANDS FOR CASH STIR FEARS OF SWAT VALLEY COMEBACK

More than 2,000 Taliban fighters from Swat have been driven into mountainous areas on the Afghan side of the border nearby, according to officials... READ MORE›

TRUMPA??S BREEZY CALLS TO WORLD LEADERS LEAVE DIPLOMATS AGHAST

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Donald J. Trump inherited a complicated world when he won the election last month... READ MORE›

INDIA'S CRACKDOWN IN KASHMIR: IS THIS THE WORLD'S FIRST MASS BLINDING?

In the 1990s, India came down hard on a widespread uprising in the Kashmir valley - killing, torturing, disappearing, and imprisoning thousands... READ MORE›

FIVE GIRLS WERE KILLED FOR DANCING IN PAKISTAN. THEN THE STORY TOOK AN EVEN DARKER TWIST.

Afzal Kohistani, 26, spent 5 years seeking help in a case of honor killing in his village in Pakistan... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN'S SURPRISINGLY CANDID READOUT OF TRUMP'S PHONE CALL WITH PRIME MINISTER

The readout is reproduced in full below Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif called President-elect USA Donald Trump and felicitated him on his victory... READ MORE›

BLUE-EYED TEA-SELLER BECOMES SOCIAL MEDIA SENSATION IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN

He was identified on Tuesday as Arshad Khan, a teenager from Kohat district, who had been making tea at the Itwar Bazaar for three months... READ MORE›

WATCH RUSSIAN TV S BIZARRE TRAILER FOR PUTIN PRESS CONFERENCE

LONDON -- First the Pakistani Taliban bombed or burned over 1,000 schools... READ MORE›

SEVEN INDIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN ATTACK ON ARMY BASE

Pakistan denies that, accusing India of abusing the rights of Muslim Kashmiris opposed to Indian rule... READ MORE›

WHY STOP AT ISIS WHEN WE COULD BOMB THE WHOLE MUSLIM WORLD?

Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban and other terrorist groups ... READ MORE›

A senior Taliban commander in the Pakistani city of Quetta said that 12 years of incarceration had also caused some psychological problems for Noori and Fazl... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN COMMERCIAL PLANE WITH 40 ABOARD CRASHES

The last major plane crash in Pakistan took place in 2012, whenA a Bhoja Air passenger plane went down in bad weather near Islamabad... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 45 KILLED, 100 WOUNDED IN PAKISTAN BLAST, IS CLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY

A Pakistani official says the death toll from a bomb blast at a Sufi shrine in southwest Pakistan has risen to 45 and over 100 wounded... READ MORE›

INDIA SHELLS KILL THREE CHILDREN IN KASHMIR

Pakistani and Indian forces trade fire along LoC in disputed Kashmir region, killing at least nine over past two days... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN SCHOOL SIEGE OVER, SAY POLICE; MORE THAN 120 KILLED, MOSTLY CHILDREN

Summary 126 people have been killed and many more injured in an attack by the Pakistani Taliban on an army-run school in Peshawar, a regional official says... READ MORE›

AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF A CITY'S LAWYERS WAS KILLED IN PAKISTAN

Barkhurdar Khan, a member of the Baluchistan Bar Council, was one of the few lawyers who survived the attack... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN EXPLOSION LEAVES MANY DEAD AT LAHORE PARK

A Pakistan Taliban faction said it carried out the attack... READ MORE›

300 ISIS FIGHTERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN OPERATION

300 ISIS Fighters Killed in Afghanistan Operation U.S... READ MORE›

MASSACRE: TALIBAN STORMS PAKISTAN SCHOOL, KILLING 126, MOSTLY CHILDREN

Hospital security guards carry a student injured during the attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan... READ MORE›

ICONIC 'AFGHAN GIRL' FROM 'NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC' ARRESTED IN PAKISTAN

National Geographic's iconic, green-eyed Afghan Girl was arrested Wednesday at her home in Peshawar, Pakistan, on charges she possessed a forged national identification card, authorities said... READ MORE›

SURGICAL STRIKES: PAKISTAN REJECTS INDIA'S CLAIMS

Pakistani account There were unconfirmed reports on Thursday that Pakistan had captured an Indian soldier on its side of the Kashmir border... READ MORE›

FROM A NAT GEO COVER TO A MUG SHOT

She was just 12 when she was photographed by Steve McCurry in a camp for displaced people in Peshawar, the biggest city along Pakistan's frontier with Afghanistan... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN HUNTS THOSE BEHIND ATTACK THAT KILLED MORE THAN 70 IN LAHORE

The US National Security Council spokesman, Ned Price, said The United States condemns in the strongest terms today's appalling terrorist attack in Lahore, Pakistan... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN CAPTURES INDIAN SOLDIER IN KASHMIR

Pakistan captures indian soldier along disputed kashmir border... READ MORE›

EXCHANGE OF FIRE CONTINUES ON PAKISTAN-INDIA BORDER

Pakistan's 'dirty politics' India and Pakistan have fought three wars since they gained independence from Britain seven decades ago, two of them over Kashmir... READ MORE›

EXPLOSION AT PARK IN LAHORE PAKISTAN KILLS DOZENS

Pakistan has been shaken by a series of attacks this year... READ MORE›

THE VOICES OF PEACE OPPOSING WAR IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN

When 24-year-old Aliya Harir left her home in Islamabad, Pakistan, for India on September 27, tensions between the neighbouring nuclear-armed countries were running high... READ MORE›

INDIA CLAIMS STRIKING SUSPECTED REBELS IN PAKISTAN

An Indian army spokesman confirmed that there had been shelling from the Pakistani side of the LoC into the Poonch district of Indian-administered Kashmir... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE RECRUITMENT DOCUMENT SEEKS TO PROVOKE 'END OF THE WORLD'

Islamic State recruitment document seeks to provoke 'end of the world'... READ MORE›

INDIA-PAKISTAN ARMIES EXCHANGE MORE FIRE IN KASHMIR

In response, India's military said it conducted surgical strikes against terrorist units on Pakistan's side of the border... READ MORE›

MORE THAN 100 CHILDREN KILLED IN TALIBAN ATTACK ON PAKISTAN SCHOOL

We selected the army's school for the attack because the government is targeting our families and females, said the Taliban spokesman Muhammad Umar Khorasani... READ MORE›

SPYING CASE AGAINST US ENVOY IS FALLING APART AND FOLLOWING A PATTERN

As relations between the two countries deteriorated, Ms. Raphel was considered one of Pakistan's few remaining supporters in the top echelon of American government... READ MORE›