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Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan's Paktika province killed at least 46 people, most of whom were women and children, the Afghan Taliban said on Wednesday. Six people were also injured in the bombing at four locations in Afghanistan, Taliban deputy spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said. Mohammad Khurasani, the spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban or Tehreek-e-Taliban ...

ISLAMABAD  —  Taliban officials in Afghanistan reported Wednesday that at least 46 people were killed in an eastern border region because of an overnight aerial bombing that allegedly was conducted by Pakistan. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban government spokesperson, stated that the attack on Tuesday evening targeted four locations in ...

Supporters of the former prime minister are marching to the capital, Islamabad, demanding his release from jail.At least one police officer has been killed and dozens of people injured in Pakistan as supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan have clashed with security forces outside the capital, Islamabad, ...

At least 82 people were killed and dozens were injured after days of clashes that began Thursday after gunmen attacked convoys of Shiite Muslims traveling under police escort. The incident sparked retaliatory attacks against Sunni residents and gunfights between groups from both sides. A Pakistani government team has managed ...

More than 80 people have been killed in renewed sectarian violence in north-west Pakistan, officials say.Another156 are said to have been wounded in three days of fighting in the tribal district of Kurram, near the Afghan border.The violence began on Thursday, when gunmen attacked convoys of Shia Muslims travelling ...

ISLAMABADAt least 15 people were killed and over 30 injured in fresh tribal clashes in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a local official said Saturday.The clashes in the Kurram district, near the Afghan border, erupted late Friday following an attack on passenger vans by unidentified assailants on Thursday."Heavy firing ...

ISLAMABAD —  Authorities in Pakistan reported Thursday that “terrorists” sprayed multiple passenger vehicles with bullets in a turbulent northwestern district, killing at least 45 people and injuring 20 others. Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi confirmed to reporters the casualties from the attack in Kurram, which borders Afghanistan. District police ...

At least 38 people - including women and children - have been killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire on a convoy of 200 passenger vehicles traveling through a remote area of Pakistan.The vehicles were attacked as they travelled through the tribal district of Kurram in Pakistan, close to the ...

Israeli air strikes on central Beirut have killed 22 people and wounded at least 117, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health says. Videos published by local news channels and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency show chaotic scenes in the aftermath of Thursday’s air strikes on Ras el-Nabaa and al-Nuweiri ...

Israel’s military says it carried out dozens of air raids across Lebanon targeting Hezbollah after the assassination of the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in a southern Beirut suburb. At least 11 people were killed in an air raid on a house in the town of Ain in the Bekaa ...