Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meets his Pakistani counterpart in Islamabad

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The United States wants to dissuade India from military responses to the Mumbai terrorist attacks and instead work with Pakistan on extremism, sources say.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The wave of Islamist terrorist attacks in Mumbai has claimed at least 143 dead so far, and it augurs a grim new chapter in international terrorism.

UPI Almanac for Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- In al-Qaida's first formal response to the election of Barack Obama, the group's second-in-command said the poll result was "the American people's admission of defeat in Iraq" and personally attacked the president-elect, calling him, in the words of 1960s black militant Malcolm X, a "house negro."

UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008.

Seven years after the start of the war in Afghanistan there is still no solution on the horizon. In fact, the security situation appears to be regressing.

UPI Almanac for Monday, Nov. 3, 2008.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The next U.S. president needs to undertake an urgent, hard-headed reassessment of the emerging political realities in Afghanistan and urgently address local concerns, say experts living on the ground. Otherwise the incoming administration may be quickly overtaken by shifting realities.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The global financial crisis is close to knocking out its most important and potentially most dangerous victim yet: Pakistan needs a financial support package of $10 billion to $15 billion to avoid collapse.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Pakistan's new civilian government must restore the rule of law or risk further radicalization, a new report from the International Crisis Group says.