The consequences were immediate and deadly when last-minute negotiations at Islamabad’s besieged Red Mosque failed Monday night. A group of religious and political leaders, including former Prime ...

Imagine that an Islamist central command exists — and that you are its chief strategist, with a mandate to spread full application of Shariah, or Islamic law, through all means available, with the ...

In Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas along its border with Afghanistan, some places are less wild than others. The Mohmand Agency, just a half-hour drive from the city of Peshawar, had long been known ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 12 -- -- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 12 -- In the fire-singed prayer hall of the Red Mosque on Thursday, pinpricks of sunlight filtered through hundreds of bullet holes in the ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani troops were flushing out holdouts entrenched inside a women’s religious school, taking control of the sprawling Red Mosque room by room in fighting that left about 50 ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Commandos cleared the warrenlike Red Mosque complex of rebel fighters Wednesday, ending a fierce eight-day siege and street battles that left more than 100 dead. Hours later, ...

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Thousands of soldiers rolled across northwestern Pakistan on Friday, a day after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf vowed to follow the storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque by ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Pervez Musharraf’s government said Wednesday that militants accounted for most of the 106 people killed in eight days of fighting around the Red Mosque, calling it a ...