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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Al-Qaida calls for holy war against government after the standoff. Pakistani protesters hold a rally Wednesday to condemn President Pervez Musharraf’s government, which carried out an operation ...

Pakistan faces a devastating insurgency. Pam Constable, a reporter for The Washington Post, recalls the moment when that insurgency began. She... Pakistan's Insurgency Begins At Red Mosque STEVE ...

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, May 22 -- -- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 22 -- Inside this city's oldest mosque, religious students readied for war this week by stockpiling weapons, digging bunkers and asking ...

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 ...

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, ...