BEIJING – China on Tuesday hit out at the United States over its quick withdrawal from Afghanistan, "leaving an awful mess of unrest, division and broken families" in the war-torn country. "America's strength and role is destruction, not construction," Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua ...

WASHINGTON — The rapid U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan link is creating intense pressure on the C.I.A. to find new ways to gather intelligence and carry out counterterrorism strikes in the country, but the agency has few good options. The C.I.A., which has been at the heart of the ...

According to a UN report, a significant clan of the Al-Qaeda link resides in the Afghanistan and Pakistan border region, including the group’s elusive leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is “probably alive but too frail to be featured in propaganda,”. A huge portion of Al-Qaeda fighters and other ...

Retired Chief Warrant Officer of US Army, Douglas Englen, who played a central role in Operation Neptune’s Spear which resulted in the US Special Operations forces gunning down Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, has said that a special US Marine Corps’ air-to-air course saved him from Pakistani ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States Abida Hussain has said that Osama Bin Laden had supported and funded former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. During an interview with a private news channel, Hussain said: “Yes, he (Osama Bin Laden) supported Mian Nawaz Sharif at one ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has submitted a new application to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for conducting daily hearing of foreign funding case against PML-N and PPP on Friday. According to the details garnered, in its application, PTI leader Farrukh Habib sought ...

*ISLAMABAD: *The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has given approval for "basic expense" for Lakshar-e-Taiba's leader Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Mahmood Sultan Bashiruddin, a Pakistani nuclear engineer. Both have been listed by the UN as international terrorists. Lakhvi had a role in the ...

Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief John Brennan has claimed that Israel helped US track al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, reported TRT World link . The al Qaeda leader was killed in his Abbottabad compound, in a joint US military-CIA operation in 2011. In an interview ...

John Brennan says the Jewish state provided some of the information which led to the operation that brought embarrassment to Islamabad. Pakistanis now have another thing to ponder. As it turns out, Israeli agents helped the United States, to a certain extent, in tracking down Osama Bin Laden, the ...

WASHINGTON (TRT World): The firm is closely linked to the CIA and Israel, while standing accused of multiple counts of human rights violations. Nearly two decades after the company was founded using a CIA investment, Palantir Technologies went public in a major stock market offering. But in ...