A top U.S. diplomat apologized to Pakistan after a panel determined that better communication could have averted the deaths of two Pakistani border guards, who were victims of a coalition helicopter attack last week.
Some security analysts are strongly against a strategy of engaging the Taliban in Afghanistan.
A suspected U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan killed nine people Friday, two Pakistani military sources said.
Two suspected U.S. missile strikes killed 28 people Friday in northwest Pakistan, military sources and local and intelligence officials said.
Pakistan's foreign ministry said Wednesday that it has lodged a "strong" protest with the U.S. ambassador over missile attacks conducted on Pakistani soil by unmanned drones.
One of Pakistan's four provincial assemblies passed a resolution Monday calling for President Pervez Musharraf to leave office -- the latest tack by Pakistani lawmakers pressuring the politically embattled president to step down or face impeachment.
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's opposition party decided Sunday to run in next month's parliamentary elections, a move that may encourage other members of Pakistan's largest opposition coalition to participate
A State Department report issued Wednesday voices concerns about heightened political influence by coca-growing associations in Bolivia and Peru, resulting in an increase in coca cultivation in those countries.
President Bush on Monday nominated Undersecretary of State John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.