The US State Department has said it is considering closing its embassy in Damascus over growing safety concerns as the death toll mounts in the Syrian regime's crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

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Pakistan would allow US military trainers, who were kicked out of the country following the November 26 NATO raid, to return as early as April or May and would also reopen the crucial supply route for

Los Angeles police have identified the victim whose severed head and other parts were found near the world-famous Hollywood sign, the LA coroner's office said on Friday.

As police claimed progress in

The government has pooh-poohed the conclusions of a survey conducted by an Amercian think-tank, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which has rated it poorly on the nuclear safety index. It has said the fi

Gunmen on Tuesday shot dead a Pakistani journalist working for the Voice of America's Pashto-language radio service as he prayed at a mosque in the northwest of the country, police said.

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Jon Huntsman, the former US ambassador to China, ended his struggling presidential bid on Monday and called on Republicans to unite in support of frontrunner Mitt Romney.

"I believe it is now time fo

Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has said the current bilateral relationship between Islamabad and Washington was at its lowest ebb, even lower than that after the 9/11 attack.

"We're at a

Sixty-five years after it crashed, the wreckage of an American plane used during the World War II has been found in a remote hamlet in Tripura.

The aircraft, which crashed on May 17, 1946 with 11 cr

Iran's supreme leader has accused the US and Israeli intelligence services of being behind the ‘abominable’ assassination in Tehran this week of a nuclear scientist who was to be buried Friday.

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A video showing what appears to be American forces urinating on dead Taliban fighters prompted anger in Afghanistan and promises of a US investigation on Thursday but the insurgent group said it would