Pakistan

Airstrikes on both sides leave civilians dead, raising fears of wider conflict as regional power China offers to defuse the situation.

Pakistan launched airstrikes against alleged militant hideouts inside Iran, killing at least nine people as it retaliated for a similar attack days earlier.

Pakistan carried out a pre-dawn attack on suspected militant bases in Iran on Thursday, a retaliatory strike that threatens to escalate tensions after Iran ...

There was no official confirmation of the strikes by Pakistani officials, but Iranian media said several missiles hit a village in the Sistan-Baluchistan ...

Pakistan just conducted airstrikes in southeastern Iran, two days after Iran used missiles and drones to strike western Pakistan.

Why did Pakistan retaliate? Pakistan said its strikes in Iran on Thursday were aimed at hideouts of the Baluchistan Liberation Army and the Baluchistan ...

The military response comes two days after Iran launched strikes in Pakistan against "terrorist targets".

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Meeting of top military, civilian leaders is being held after Pakistan's retaliatory strikes on armed groups in Iran.

Pakistan's prime minister will hold an emergency security meeting on Friday with military and intelligence chiefs after trading deadly air strikes with Iran ...

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New Zealand vs Pakistan Live Score: Pakistan at 77/2 after 11 overs, Mohammad Rizwan at 50 runs and Fakhar Zaman at 6 runs.

The United Nations and the United States appealed for restraint on Thursday (18 January) after Iran and Pakistan traded deadly air strikes on militant ...

Pakistan's top civilian and military leaders will carry out a security review on Friday on the standoff with Iran, the information minister said, after the ...

Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar will chair a meeting of the National Security Committee, with all the military services chiefs in attendance, the ...

Rizwan, who scored 90 not out, was the lone spark for Pakistan in another disappointing game for their batters.

The middle-order batters combined for an unbroken 139-run stand for the fourth wicket at Hagley Oval, hauling their side out of an early hole and powering them ...

Foreign ministers from both countries held a call after retaliatory strikes on each other's territories.

Members of Muslim Talba Mahaz Pakistan chant slogans at a demonstration in Islamabad on Jan. 18, 2024, to condemn an Iranian missile strike in the Pakistani ...

In a surprising turn on January 16, Iran launched missile strikes into Pakistan's Baluchistan province, claiming it had hit two strongholds of anti-Iran ...

Pakistani warplanes launched air strikes early on January 18 on alleged militant targets in neighboring Iran, an attack that a local Iranian official said ...

Tensions increase between Pakistan and Iran since each conducted airstrikes on the other's territory. Israel says no to a two-state solution.

Houthis say they don't intend to expand attacks in and around Red Sea; Russia emphasized need for Hamas to release Israeli hostages, foreign ministry says.

Pakistan launched missile strikes against what it says are terrorists inside Iran just days after Iranian strikes in Pakistan. Russia and Ukraine traded ...

According to the Pakistani foreign ministry, the agreement stemmed from a telephone conversation that Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani held with his Iranian ...

Pakistan's political and military leaders on Friday moved to de-escalate tensions with Iran after this week's deadly airstrikes by Tehran and Islamabad that ...

Iran's complicated calculus in attacking Pakistan doesn't factor in Gaza, but domestic issues and longstanding battles with separatists.

Iran carried out a missile and drone attack on what it called “terrorist” targets in Pakistan on Tuesday night, with Pakistan in turn striking militant targets ...

Pakistan and Iran on Friday agreed to de-escalate tensions that arose from a series of military actions in the border region of Baluchistan.

Recent developments. Following the 2022 floods and the acute financial pressures earlier in the year, economic activity has stabilized and inflation has ...