Iran's sudden strikes show just how perilous region has become
These are shape-shifting times in the Middle East.
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These are shape-shifting times in the Middle East.
Pakistan has expressed its willingness to work with Iran on "all issues" in a call between their foreign ministers.
When Iran and Pakistan traded airstrikes this week, both targeting what they said were militant camps, the exchange raised fears that the upheaval sweeping the Middle East was moving into new territory.
Pakistan announced yesterday that it had carried out strikes against what it said were terrorist hide-outs in Iran. A day earlier, Iran hit what it called militant camps in Pakistan. The military exchange is the latest example of an expanding set of hostilities connected to the Israel-Hamas war.
The crackdown and censure on the main opposition party turns the run-up to the February 8 election into a lukewarm affair.
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan and Iran have signaled that they would prefer to de-escalate tensions after trading strikes on purported militant camps in each other's territory, though experts warn the stage is set for a proxy conflict that could haunt residents in border regions.
Iran has launched strikes against targets in three allied countries - Syria, Iraq and Pakistan - in two days. Pakistan responded with a missile attack on Iranian territory. So why did Iran do it, and why did it happen now?
Israel and Gaza. Yemen and the Red Sea. Lebanon, Syria, Iraq — and now Pakistan, too.