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Pakistani forces exchanged heavy fire Sunday with Taliban defending their heartland, a day after launching an offensive aimed at bringing the writ of the state to lawless lands on the Afghan border.
The Pakistani army and the Taliban claimed to be inflicting heavy casualties on each other as fierce fighting raged Sunday in the Afghan border area.
Indian authorities on Sunday forced a US plane carrying Marines to land in Mumbai after a confusion about the call sign, a US Embassy official said.
Militants clashed with Pakistani troops advancing into their main sanctuary near the Afghan border Sunday amid signs the army faces a far tougher fight than in other assaults against al-Qaida and the Taliban in the northwest.
A 16-year-old Australian steered her bright pink yacht out of Sydney Harbor on Sunday to start her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world.
With Afghanistan's election crisis deepening, Sen. John Kerry says it would be irresponsible for the US to consider sending additional troops to the region at this time.
Pakistani soldiers attacked militant bases in the main al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border Saturday in the country's most critical offensive...
Over a dozen inmates broke a jail in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province, director Mohammad Usman Parwani said Saturday.
A suicide bomber blew up a truck bomb over a key bridge on the main highway west of Ramadi, the capital city of Anbar province, while four soldiers were killed in separate incident near the city of Fallujah, a police source said Saturday.
Two roadside bombings in eastern and southern Afghanistan have left three US soldiers dead on Friday, said a statement of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Saturday.
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