June 4 (Reuters) – A series of drone strikes over the
weekend and a confrontation on Monday near the border town of
Peshawar between U.S. diplomats and local police added new
strains to already tense relations between the United States and
Pakistan.

U.S. and Pakistani government sources said Abu Yahya al
Libi, a senior Al Qaeda leader who had survived previous drone
attacks, was a target of one of the latest strikes, which
occurred early on Monday in North Waziristan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Five days after Afghan militants showered the U.S. embassy in Kabul last September with rockets and bullets in a bold, nearly 20-hour assault, top U.S. officials pointedly pressed the Pakistani government to take action against the Haqqani network, the Taliban-allied militant group.

A handful of American officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Marc Grossman, President Barack Obama’s envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, laid out during the meeting in New York what they knew about the attack, which they traced back to the town of Miranshah, where the network has a base in northwest Pakistan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Five days after Afghan militants showered the U.S. embassy in Kabul last September with rockets and bullets in a bold, nearly 20-hour assault, top U.S. officials pointedly pressed the Pakistani government to take action against the Haqqani network, the Taliban-allied militant group.

A handful of American officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Marc Grossman, President Barack Obama’s envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, laid out during the meeting in New York what they knew about the attack, which they traced back to the town of Miranshah, where the network has a base in northwest Pakistan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. government website on Friday published what it said was photographic evidence of mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian government forces.

The website, operated by a bureau of the State Department, published a series of overhead photos, said to be taken earlier this week by commercial satellite, showing what it said were mass graves dug following a massacre near the town of Houla.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is scheduled to deliver his latest personal financial disclosure statement to federal elections authorities on Friday, government and campaign sources said.

The financial statement, which last year ran to 28 pages, is expected to show that Romney sold “nearly all” his holdings in individual stocks since last year. Instead, he moved substantial wealth into cash, according to an analysis posted earlier this month on the Forbes.com website.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has sent a handful of military officials back into northwestern Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level military cooperation despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington’s relations with Islamabad in crisis.

Two U.S. officers have been sent in the last few weeks to the city of Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan, a U.S. official said, restoring after a months-long absence a U.S. military presence in an unstable region home to militants fueling violence across the border.

WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) – The United States has sent a
handful of military officials back into northwestern Pakistan in
a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level
military cooperation despite a string of confrontations that
have left Washington’s relations with Islamabad in crisis.

Two U.S. officers have been sent in the last few weeks to
the city of Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan, a
U.S. official said, restoring after a months-long absence a U.S.
military presence in an unstable region home to militants
fueling violence across the border.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has sent a handful of military officials back into northwestern Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level military cooperation despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington’s relations with Islamabad in crisis.

Two U.S. officers have been sent in the last few weeks to the city of Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan, a U.S. official said, restoring after a months-long absence a U.S. military presence to an unstable region home to militants fueling violence across the border.

WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) – The United States has sent a
handful of military officials back into northwestern Pakistan in
a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level
military cooperation despite a string of confrontations that
have left Washington’s relations with Islamabad in crisis.

Two U.S. officers have been sent in the last few weeks to
the city of Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan, a
U.S. official said, restoring after a months-long absence a U.S.
military presence to an unstable region home to militants
fueling violence across the border.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has sent a handful of military trainers back into Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level cooperation against militants despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington’s relations with Islamabad in crisis.

Fewer than 10 U.S. special operations soldiers have been sent to a training site near the border city of Peshawar, where they will instruct trainers from Pakistan’s Frontier Corps in counter-insurgency warfare, a U.S. official said.