Afghans gradually take over security in several areas
One Afghan official likened the process to defusing a bomb: It has to be done, but best to speak softly and move carefully, lest it blow...
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Pakistani Hindus' ashes brought to India to be scattered in Ganges
They sat in the dark for decades, waiting on the shelves of an abandoned library, the laughter and tears that once defined their lives all...
Islamist student group said to terrorize Pakistan campuses
After philosophy students and faculty members rallied to denounce heavy-handed efforts to separate male and female students, Islamists on...
Taliban say hackers faked reports of Mullah Omar's death
In this Murdochian age, it somehow seems inevitable: The Taliban movement says its phones were hacked.
Petraeus hands over command in Afghanistan
A new U.S. commander, Marine Gen. John R. Allen, formally took control of the war in Afghanistan on Monday, inheriting a nearly decade-...
Canada's exit highlights Afghanistan challenges
The air conditioning in the cavernous military assembly hall didn't generate enough of a breeze to flutter the long strings of plastic...
Afghan civilian deaths up 15% this year, U.N. report says
The Afghan war claimed 15% more civilian lives in the first half of this year than in the same period a year ago, the United Nations said in...
Bombing kills 5 French soldiers in Afghanistan
A suicide bombing killed five French soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, representing one of France's largest one-day losses of...
Relief and worry after slaying of Hamid Karzai's half brother
For the Americans trying to pacify the south of Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai might prove even more troublesome in death than he was in...
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...
