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A police official says a suicide bomber has detonated his explosives outside a Shiite Muslim gathering in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, killing five people.

The group was headed to a Taliban sanctuary in Pakistan’s tribal areas with the intention of training to fight against American troops, Pakistani police authorities said Thursday.

Pakistani police on Wednesday arrested five American men believed to have gone missing from the Washington, DC area last month, officials from both countries said.

A suicide bomber struck outside a court building in the main northwest city of Peshawar, killing at least five people and wounding 49.

In a daring midday raid that showed insurgents' ability to strike Pakistan's military virtually at will, militants today stormed a Rawalpindi mosque filled with military officers and a group of children, killing at least 37 people with a combination of gunfire, grenades and suicide bomb blasts.

A prosecutor says seven Pakistani suspects in last year's terror attacks in Mumbai have been indicted on terror charges.

President Barack Obama sought to reassure Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday of his commitment to boosting U.S. ties with India even as his administration has set its rivals, China and Pakistan, as top priorities.

Three suspected Taliban militants blew themselves up on Saturday as police chased them in Pakistani Kashmir, police said.

A suicide car bomber killed 10 people, including four children, today at a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, in the latest in a string of militant attacks targeting the city, officials said.

As Pakistani forces battle the Taliban, the militants' latest retaliatory attack in the Peshawar area continues a shift in strategy in which hard-to-secure city markets are targeted.

A car bomb blast tore through a crowded market in a city near Peshawar today and killed 34 people, the third terrorist attack to strike the area in three days.