Public support for the state is critical for a successful counterinsurgency strategy.

Reduced river flows will compound water stress in Sindh’s vulnerable districts.

The memory of the Holocaust is kept alive at the cost of other genocides.

"Own losses" far outstrip dent IBOs, kinetic actions put in militants’ operational ability; need to revisit existing anti-terror strategies.

Despite end of calendar year, total tally will become clear well into January as collected samples are tested.

Sadda and Central Kurram get by somehow, with supplies coming in through a rough mountainous road. Not Parachinar, though, which remains cut off.