Pakistan Faces Resurgance of Terrorism NYT | Top Stories Zia ur-Rehman 21 December 2024 at 13:01 Political instability, dwindling public support and economic constraints are eroding the costly gains that the country made in combating militancy after a ghastly school attack in 2014. © Arshad Arbab/EPA, via ShutterstockShagufta Tahir, the mother of Muhammad Shaheer Khan, one of the students killed in a militant attack on a school in December 2014 in Peshawar, Pakistan.
The War on Terror Had an Unexpected Outcome NYT | Opinion 5 December 2024 at 21:47 The rebel group H.T.S. was born as an Islamic State branch. But since pivoting from international jihad, it became dominant in Syria’s northwest.