U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “slight progress” has been made during talks with Iran.
Authorities say the death toll from a suicide attack on a security post in northwest Pakistan has risen to 14 police officers.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard navy has warned of a “heavy assault” on one of the U.S. bases in the region if Iranian oil tankers or commercial vessels are attacked.
President Donald Trump says he is pausing the U.S. effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz to allow time for a deal to end the Iran war, but that the American forces’ blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced nearly six hours of questioning Wednesday from House lawmakers for the first time since President Donald Trump’s administration launched the war against Iran.
Pakistan’s leaders are seeking to revive peace talks between the United States and Iran after President Donald Trump canceled plans for his top envoys to travel to Islamabad this weekend for negotiations.
Iran has reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and fired on a tanker attempting to pass the waterway.
U_S_ Central Command says it will begin a blockade of all Iranian ports at 10 a_m_ EDT Monday, or 5:30 p_m_ in Iran, to be “enforced impartially against vessels of all nations."
U.S. Vice President JD Vance says negotiations between the United States and Iran ended without a peace deal after the Iranians refused to accept American terms to not develop a nuclear weapon.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance is heading to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials, as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire and Tehran maintained its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz.
Over the course of a single day, President Donald Trump went from threatening Iran with “annihilation” to proclaiming that Iran's leadership had presented a “workable” plan that led him to agree to a two-week ceasefire.
A ceasefire deal to pause the war in Iran appears to be hanging by a thread after the Islamic Republic closed the Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon.
Regional powers met in Pakistan to discuss how to end the fighting in the Middle East after about 2,500 U.S. Marines arrived in the region and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the monthlong war.
Pakistan’s foreign minister says Islamabad will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran.
Pakistani and Afghan officials say their forces have launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes, with each side claiming to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been the deadliest fighting yet between the two neighbors.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to mediate for a new ceasefire between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
More than a dozen former international cricket captainshave urged Pakistan’s government to ensure better prison treatment and medical care for former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan.
Pakistani security forces have arrested four suspects linked to a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque near the capital that killed 31 people.
Pakistani officials say a suicide bomber targeted a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad during Friday prayers, killing 31 people and wounding at least 169 others.
Pakistan’s information minister says imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan underwent a medical procedure for an eye ailment last week at a government hospital in the capital and is in good health.
A court in Pakistan’s capital has sentenced seven people to life imprisonment after convicting them of inciting violence.
A Pakistani court has convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, sentencing them to 17 years in prison.
Police say suspected militants have opened fire on a police officer guarding a team of polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, killing the officer and a passerby.
The International Monetary Fund says it has approved the release of $1.2 billion to Pakistan, giving the cash-strapped country a fresh boost as it works to recover from one of its worst economic crises in years.
An overnight exchange of fire between Afghan and Pakistani forces along their tense border has killed five Afghan civilians and wounded five others.
Pakistan’s interior minister says Afghan nationals carried out two fatal suicide attacks this week, one targeting a cadet college near the Afghan border and the other outside a court in the capital, Islamabad.
Authorities say Pakistan has banned a radical Islamist party behind recent violent protests that left at least one police officer and four civilians dead.
Saudi Arabia has signed a defense pact with nuclear-armed Pakistan, pledging that any attack on either nation would be considered an attack on both.
Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have signed a defense pact pledging that any attack on either nation would be considered an attack on both.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Trump administration is listening to the Kremlin's justifications for its invasion of Ukraine.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has postponed its Pakistan Super League following rising military tensions between India and Pakistan.
India fired missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory early Wednesday, calling it retaliation for last month’s massacre of tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
Pakistan says it will avenge those killed by India’s missile strikes that New Delhi called retaliation for last month’s massacre of Indian tourists.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called senior officials in India and Pakistan in an effort to defuse the crisis that followed last week’s deadly attack in Kashmir, the State Department said.
Pakistan’s prime minister has commended the country’s armed forces for successfully rescuing 339 passengers after a deadly train hijacking by insurgents in the southwest.
Pakistani police say unidentified gunmen shot and killed a police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive of the year.
Leaders and top officials from an international group founded to counter Western alliances have met in Pakistan’s capital, with Moscow and Beijing announcing they will boost cooperation.
Pakistani authorities have locked down the capital in a major security move as senior officials from several nations arrive for an Asian security group meeting.
A Pakistani separatist group has claimed responsibility for a late-night bombing that targeted a convoy with Chinese nationals outside Karachi's airport, killing two workers from China and wounding eight people.
Pakistani officials say the executive board of the International Fund has approved a new $7 billion loan for the country.
Pakistan’s leader says the country has met all the conditions set by the International Monetary Fund to qualify for a new $7 billion loan to help prop up its economy.
Hundreds of mourners in southern Pakistan have attended the funerals of 28 Shiite pilgrims who were killed in a bus crash in Iran this week while heading to Iraq.
A bus carrying Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq has crashed in central Iran, killing at least 28 people.
Pakistan’s government says it plans to file treason charges against imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan for wrongfully dissolving parliament in 2022 and to ban his political party for allegedly receiving foreign funding.
The leaders of Iran and Pakistan have agreed to strengthen economic and security cooperation in a meeting that sought to smooth over a diplomatic rift.
An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have called for an immediate cease-fire and uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Pakistani police are searching for gunmen who killed nine people after abducting them from a bus in the country’s southwest.
Authorities in Pakistan say that a suicide bomber has rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle in the northwest of the country.
Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly have elected Shehbaz Sharif for a comeback term as prime minister.
Pakistan’s National Assembly swore in newly elected members on Thursday in a chaotic scene, as allies of jailed former Premier Imran Khan protested what they claim was a rigged election.
Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan is writing a letter to the International Monetary Fund urging it to link any talks with Islamabad to an audit of the country’s recent election.
The political rivals of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan have announced details of a power-sharing agreement, naming Shehbaz Sharif as their joint candidate for prime minister.
Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has been sworn in as Pakistan’s prime minister to head a caretaker government that will oversee parliamentary elections.
An Afghan branch of the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Pakistan that killed at least 54 people at a pro-Taliban party’s election rally, in one of the region’s worst attacks in recent years.
The International Monetary Fund has approved a much-awaited $3 billion bailout for Pakistan that likely will save the nation from defaulting on its debt repayments.
Thousands of Muslims in Pakistan have held protests to denounce last week’s burning of the Islamic holy book in Stockholm following a call by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to “send a strong message to Sweden.”.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has declared a national day of mourning for citizens who died when a fishing trawler packed with migrants sank off the Greek coast.