Panetta signals a new tone on U.S.-led wars

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta carried an unmistakable message on his first overseas trip since taking office this month: One way or...

Copper mining will crush ancient Afghan site

The ruins poke out of a monotonous stretch of scrub and beckon the world to visit Afghanistan as it was more than 1,400 years ago, when...

U.S. decision to withhold military aid to Pakistan could backfire

Washington's decision to hold back $800 million in military aid to Pakistan probably won't prod Islamabad into clamping down on militancy,...

U.S. suspends some aid to Pakistani military

With ties between the two nations strained after American commandos killed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison city, the Obama...

Panetta says U.S. is 'within reach' of defeating Al Qaeda

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta declared Saturday that the United States was "within reach" of defeating Al Qaeda as a terrorist threat,...

At least 80 dead in Karachi bloodshed

Police in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, struggled Friday to quell a wave of violence that has claimed at least 80 lives in the last four...

U.S. has verified Al Qaeda operative's death, official says

The U.S. has confirmed that a key Al Qaeda planner and trainer was killed in a drone strike in the tribal areas of Pakistan in June, a U.S....

U.S. troop pullout points up Karzai's woes

As U.S. commanders prepare to bring home 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by year's end, the drawdown is calling fresh attention to the tangle...

Republican senators criticize Afghan pullout plan

Two key Republican senators visiting Afghanistan said Sunday that many Afghans may see President Obama's plans to pull 33,000 American...

Scandals taint revered Pakistan military

It's difficult to overstate the respect that Pakistan's military has enjoyed among its people. Since the nation's violent birth in 1947, the...

Buried bombs take increasingly deadly toll on Afghan civilians

Buried bombs killed 30 Afghans in a 48-hour span, in the latest grim illustration of the dangers faced by civilians as the season's fighting...

Afghan Taliban sends message with hotel attack

Nazeer Amiri, an ex-cop out for a leisurely late dinner with friends at a hilltop hotel, could hardly believe his eyes.

U.S. steps up efforts for talks with Taliban

As Obama administration officials look beyond the planned drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, one path dominates their thinking...

Attackers in uniform add to anxiety in Afghanistan

In late May, a NATO soldier was killed as he emerged from his tent. Two weeks earlier, two NATO soldiers were killed while eating a meal. In...

Suicide bombing outside Afghanistan hospital kills 27

A suicide car bomber killed at least 27 people at a hospital in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, many of them women and children in the...

Afghans fear U.S. drawdown will allow Taliban to regroup

President Obama's planned drawdown of 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan has generated ripples of anxiety for Afghans who worry that the...

Obama's troop move a calculated risk

President Obama's decision to break with his top Pentagon advisors and pull 33,000 troops from Afghanistan faster than they wanted is a...

Doyle McManus: A pivot point in Afghanistan

In 1966, as President Lyndon B. Johnson was becoming ever more enmeshed in the war in Vietnam, a Republican senator from Vermont named...

Pakistan arrests army officer allegedly linked to Islamic extremists

A senior Pakistani army officer suspected of having links to an Islamic extremist group has been arrested, authorities said Tuesday, a...

Obama expected to announce major Afghan drawdown

President Obama plans to announce a troop reduction in Afghanistan that Pentagon and other administration officials say is expected to bring...

Ex-British envoy sees war as wrong focus in Afghanistan

From 2007 to 2010, Sherard Cowper-Coles served as Britain's ambassador and special representative to Afghanistan, giving him an inside...

U.S. has contacted Taliban about an Afghan peace deal

Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed Saturday that the United States had been in contact with the Taliban about a possible political...

U.S. risks wasting billions more in Afghanistan aid, report says

Reviewing the multibillion-dollar U.S. aid program in Afghanistan two years ago, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pronounced it a...

Bin Laden's No. 2 is Al Qaeda's new chief

In July 2005, Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman Zawahiri sent a long letter to the group's lead operative in Iraq, urging him to tone down...

Pakistan's detention of suspected CIA informants stems from Bin Laden raid frustrations, analysts say

The detention of Pakistanis suspected of supplying information to the CIA in advance of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden reflects the...