Defense

Bengaluru police widened a terror-module probe in September 2012, arresting Dr Nayueem Siddique as the 14th suspect — the alleged Kaiga nuclear-plant plot

Mumbai Police released photos of alleged LeT terrorists who had entered the city — but reporters found the men in Lahore, running shops, tied to no plot.

Researchers began building riot-prediction models from social media and economic data in 2012 — and civil-liberties advocates immediately raised alarms.

Days after the US put a $10 million bounty on Hafiz Saeed, a Pakistani counter-terrorism official said the JuD chief had been helping de-radicalize militants.

In April 2012 Al-Qaeda's main internet forums went silent for over a week — an unprecedented blackout analysts blamed on a coordinated cyber attack.

In February 2012 Pakistan began demolishing the Abbottabad compound where Osama bin Laden was killed — erasing a building that had become an embarrassment

On December 10, 2011, tens of thousands of Russians filled Bolotnaya Square in Moscow to protest rigged parliamentary elections — the largest

NATO helicopters killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at Salala on November 26, 2011; Pakistan called it unprovoked, ordered the US out, and froze a critical alliance.

November 2011: the IAEA's toughest Iran report yet, Israeli air-defense drills, and mysterious base explosions — the month the shadow war nearly surfaced.

Obama's November 2011 announcement of up to 2,500 US Marines rotating through Darwin — the opening move of the 'pivot to Asia' — drew an angry response from

Julia Gillard's November 2011 push to end Labor's uranium ban on India — approved 206-185 at the December party conference — reshaped Australia's nuclear

In 2011, historian Thant Myint-U argued Burma would be the hinge of 21st-century Asia — the new crossroads of China and India. His case, revisited.

Two weeks before 9/11, a Saudi family abruptly abandoned its Sarasota home. Investigators later found 'many connections' between the family and the hijackers.

Forty minutes, one compound, a decade-long manhunt: how SEAL Team Six killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on the night of May 1-2, 2011.

On July 13, 2011, three coordinated blasts hit Zaveri Bazaar, Opera House and Dadar, killing 26. Mumbai's spirit answered — again.

In July 2011, after the U.S. froze $800 million in aid, Pakistan's defense minister threatened to pull troops from the Afghan border.

Ilyas Kashmiri was reported killed in a 2009 drone strike, then gave an interview. A June 2011 strike in South Waziristan may have finally got him.

In May 2011 Pakistan asked China to take over Gwadar port — and hinted at a naval base. Beijing said no. Inside the new Great Game.

The 2011 Chicago trial of Tahawwur Rana put David Headley on the stand — airing evidence about the 26/11 attacks India couldn't get through its own courts.

From Chennai to Srinagar, funeral prayers for bin Laden divided India's Muslims in May 2011 — Geelani's call, Omar Abdullah's rebuke, and quiet resistance.

A catch-up phone call, a courier who drove 90 minutes to use a cellphone — and a tall man pacing a walled courtyard. How the CIA zeroed in on Abbottabad.

After the SEALs left Abbottabad, cameras got inside bin Laden's compound: bloodstained floors, scattered belongings, and the wreckage of the burned helicopter.

After the Abbottabad raid, Salman Rushdie called for Pakistan to be declared a terrorist state — the sharpest version of a question Washington was dodging.

After the Abbottabad raid, Pakistan faced pointed questions from Washington and humiliation at home — the competence-or-complicity trap the ISI couldn't escape.

Why was bin Laden called 'Geronimo'? The raid code word, what it actually meant, and the backlash from Native Americans who found it offensive.

Days after the Abbottabad raid, a pro-Taliban party held Pakistan's first public rally honoring bin Laden — small in size, heavy in symbolism.

The trail to bin Laden began with a courier's pseudonym and ended at an oversized compound in Abbottabad. How U.S. intelligence connected the dots.

Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in Abbottabad in May 2011. The raid, the announcement, and what his death did and didn't change.

On January 25, 2011, the Day of Rage brought tens of thousands of Egyptians into the streets. How Tunisia lit the fuse under Mubarak's 30-year rule.

How Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in Sidi Bouzid on December 17, 2010 sparked the Tunisian revolution -- and the Arab Spring.

In October 2010, separatist leader Geelani and author Arundhati Roy shared a stage in Delhi demanding 'azadi' for Kashmir — and ignited a national firestorm.

Pakistan's own army website listed an ISI operative who died in a Delhi hospital in 2007 - an accidental admission Islamabad never acknowledged.

In December 2010, Pakistani papers ran fake WikiLeaks cables smearing India's military — until the Guardian's database search found nothing.

China licensed Russia’s Su-27, then built and exported its own cheaper J-11. On reverse engineering as industrial strategy — and Moscow’s fury.

The WikiLeaks cables revealed Arab leaders privately urging the U.S. to strike Iran's nuclear program — while saying otherwise in public.

India and China: deepening trade on one axis, unresolved borders and strategic rivalry on the other. On the no war, no peace relationship.

In late 2010, reports said al-Qaeda had tasked Ilyas Kashmiri with its Kashmir and India operations — symbolism or escalation? On the debate.

China displayed 25+ drone designs at the 2010 Zhuhai air show — including the jet-powered WJ-600. A look at Beijing's unmanned ambitions.

India and Pakistan agreed to tone down the aggressive Wagah border ceremony after soldiers complained the high goose-stepping was wrecking their knees.

Article 370, AFSPA, and decades of military presence: what ordinary Kashmiris want is not complicated. Getting there is.

India and Russia were close to a joint fifth-generation fighter deal in 2010 — up to 300 aircraft based on Sukhoi's T-50.