Syed Athar Abbas is not that big a deal, you would think. In fact, Syed Athar Abbas is someone you and I would otherwise never have heard of, because so far as I can tell, in the entire world of ...

Taliban fighters had dug themselves into bunkers built into hotels and government buildings in Mingora, and initially offered stiff resistance as troops first closed roads leading to the town then ...

Eight militants and one Pakistani soldier died in a chaotic border battle in which Afghan and Pakistani troops mistakenly traded fire in the dark, the Pakistani army said. Army spokesman Maj. Gen.

A border clash that wounded several Pakistani and Afghan security personnel was sparked by insurgents in Afghanistan who fired at targets in both countries, apparently to stoke cross-border tensions, ...

WHO IS SYED ATHAR ABBAS? The Scrapbook’s colleague David Tell raised this interesting question last week in an online piece for The Daily Standard, discussing developments in the anthrax investigation ...

Pakistani security forces fought street battles with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley's main urban center, a critical phase in the effort to wrest the northwest region near Afghanistan out of ...

A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into an independent candidate's office in Pakistan's volatile northwest Saturday, killing 37 people and wounding more than 90 days before a crucial ...

Pakistan's offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan, a region near the Afghan border, is progressing more swiftly than expected, military spokesmen said Monday, the third day of the push. But ...

Reporting from Rawalpindi, Pakistan — In a daring midday raid that showed insurgents’ ability to strike the Pakistani military virtually at will, militants Friday stormed a Rawalpindi mosque filled ...

Pakistan has detained a brigadier assigned to army headquarters over alleged links to a banned Islamist group, the army said on Tuesday, the highest-ranking serving officer arrested in a decade.

An airborne camera slowly pans over a range of thickly forested and jagged mountains. “This is the area of Piochar,” says Major General Athar Abbas, citing the suspected hideout of the Swat valley’s ...

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Two separate attacks in Pakistan killed at least 11 people Monday, including the country’s surgeon general, the highest-ranking military officer to die in an attack in years, ...