US-Pakistan operation to capture 'top terrorist' signals deep counterterrorism cooperation despite cold ties, experts say
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FILE - The outside of the Department of Justice building in Washington. The justice department says Mohammad Sharifullah has been charged with 'providing and conspiring to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization resulting in death.'
The U.S. Justice Department plans Wednesday to present in a federal court in Virginia the alleged mastermind of the August 2021 bombing that killed 13 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
A delivery rider passes by workers laboring at a new residential building under construction in Beijing on March 1, 2025. Residential complexes are seen near a frozen river in Miyun district in northeastern Beijing, on Feb. 27, 2025.
FILE - A demonstrator holds a picture of Kurdistan Workers Party leader Abdullah Ocalan during a rally in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Feb. 27, 2025.
Candles are lit at the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli University Hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized with pneumonia, in Rome, March 4, 2025.
Golden Dragon military exercise in Svay Chok village, Kampong Chhnang province, north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 30, 2024. China will boost its defense spending by 7.2% this year.
FILE - The American and Chinese flags wave ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China.
FILE - Houthi supporters raise weapons as they shout slogans during an anti-U.S and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on Feb. 14, 2025. The U.S. State Department on March 4, 2025, designated the Iran-backed group as a "foreign terrorist organization."
Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left, welcomes Myanmar's junta leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, left, during their meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, March 4, 2025.
A Japanese Self-Defense Force helicopter conducts firefighting operations on a wildfire site in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, March 4, 2025, in this photo taken by Kyodo. (Kyodo/via Reuters)
FILE - Men carry bags of food aid at the Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya, March 6, 2018.
People attend as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, leads the recitation of the Holy Rosary for Pope Francis' health in St Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 3, 2025. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, leads the recitation of the Holy Rosary for Pope Francis' health in St Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 3, 2025.
FILE - In this March 16, 2008 file photo, Kurds look at images of the victims of Halabja massacre in Halabja, Iraq.
FILE - A view of Apollo, the humanoid robot built by Apptronik, Inc. carries a package at Austin, Texas, October 25, 2023.
FILE - A farmer carries collected gum arabic from an Acacia tree in the western Sudanese town of El-Nahud that lies in the main farming state of North Kordofan Dec. 18, 2012. Gum arabic is seen on an Acacia tree in the western Sudanese town of El-Nahud that lies in the main farming state of North Kordofan Dec. 18, 2012.