PESHAWAR: Fifteen people, among them 12 soldiers, two police officers and a forestry official, were killed after militants stormed a joint security checkpost in northwestern Pakistan overnight, in an assault that has again exposed the scale of the militant threat facing the country’s western border regions.
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Pakistan condemns Houthi tanker attacks and pledges solidarity with Saudi Arabia as Red Sea crisis deepens
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, pledging his country’s full solidarity with Riyadh in a telephone call with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as fears grow that the widening Middle East conflict is drawing in one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors.
Pakistan draws maritime red line, warns of force against Houthi blockade
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan warned on Wednesday that it stood ready to use force to defend its ships and maritime interests, as Yemen’s Houthi movement pressed ahead with threats of a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia that has already prompted tankers to change course in the Red Sea.
Pakistan urges restraint as Iran’s interior minister visits amid collapsing US ceasefire
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on all parties to exercise restraint in the escalating conflict between Iran and the United States on Tuesday, as Pakistan sought to shore up a ceasefire agreement it brokered that has come under renewed strain from fighting in the Gulf.
US and Iran trade strikes far beyond Hormuz as Tehran declares ‘full-scale war’
ISLAMABAD: Iran’s president declared on Monday that his country is now locked in “a full-scale war” with the United States, a stark public acknowledgment that came as American warplanes struck deeper into Iranian territory than at any point in months and Tehran’s own missiles reached as far as Syria, Jordan, and Kuwait.
Ninth night of US airstrikes on Iran follows death of another American service member
ISLAMABAD: The United States bombed Iran for a ninth consecutive night early on Monday, extending a war that began in February and has now claimed the lives of at least 17 American service members, as Iran answered with retaliatory strikes on Bahrain, Kuwait, and a U.S.-linked target in Syria.
US and Iran trade strikes for eighth straight day
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran traded strikes for an eighth straight day on Sunday, plunging the Middle East deeper into open warfare after an Iranian missile and drone attack on a US air base in Jordan left two American service members dead and a third missing.
US reports first combat deaths; Iran says ceasefire over as war enters seventh night
ISLAMABAD: For the seventh straight night, American warplanes and warships struck targets across Iran on Saturday, and Iran struck back at US allies across the Persian Gulf, as the region’s fragile ceasefire dissolved further into what officials on both sides now describe as a return to open war.
US and Iran broaden war as infrastructure becomes the new battlefield
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran dramatically widened the scope of their conflict on Friday, striking bridges, a port facility, and energy infrastructure in a sixth consecutive night of American attacks, while Tehran answered with a barrage of missiles and drones that reached as far as Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, and, for the first time, Syria.
US, Iran trade fire for sixth straight night as fight for Hormuz escalates
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran traded fire for a sixth consecutive night on Thursday, as American warplanes, drones, and warships struck deeper into Iranian territory and Tehran answered with missile and drone attacks on US military installations across the Persian Gulf, pushing a month-old ceasefire toward collapse and reviving fears of a wider Middle East war.