At least 56 people were killed in violence across Syria on Sunday, half of them civilians, rights group the Syrian Observatory said Sunday. Government forces had launched an assault on the city just hours before the UN vote, ...

The US on Thursday issued a travel advisory, warning its citizens about the risks while traveling to Pakistan in view of recent developments and tension in US-Pak ties in the aftermath of NATO raid that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers....

President Barack Obama confirmed that US drone aircraft have struck Taliban and Al-Qaeda targets within Pakistan -- operations that until now had not been officially acknowledged. When asked about the use of drones by his administration ...

India's supreme court is due to begin an appeal hearing into the death sentence handed down to the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Mohammed Kasab, one of 10 gunmen who laid ...

At least nine people died in a series of crashes on a northern Florida highway Sunday after a forest fire created a cloud of smoke that reduced visibility, officials said. The "multiple crash" accidents occurred on ...

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S. in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin Ladens compound last May....

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta still believes someone in authority in Pakistan knew where Osama bin Laden was hiding before US forces went in to find him, he said in a TV interview to air Sunday....

United States have number of Nato supply routes that are being used despite the closure of Pakistani routes, US state department said on Thursday. During a daily press briefing, state department's spokesperson Victoria Nuland said that ...

US is pleased as Pakistani institutions are holding talks to overcome political instability in the country, state department said on Wednesday. During a ...

Two attacks just hours apart in the southern Afghan province of Helmand killed 16 people and wounded more than 20 others on Wednesday, officials said. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed 10 civilians and two policemen in ...