Afghanistan car bombing kills as many as 13

A powerful Taliban car bomb killed as many as 12 Afghan policemen and a child on Sunday in a southern town where Afghan forces took over...

U.S. is refocused on covert strikes in Pakistan

The U.S. is "doubling down" on its strategy of covert targeted missile strikes in Pakistan in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death, believing...

Camp Pendleton Marines in Afghanistan warned of Taliban threat

During a surprise visit Saturday with Marines and sailors from Camp Pendleton deployed in Afghanistan, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...

Suicide bombers, gunmen attack Afghan provincial capital

A team of insurgent suicide bombers and gunmen struck a provincial capital Thursday, killing as many as 21 people in an audacious attack...

Afghanistan mayor killed by suicide bomber

In Afghanistan these days, choosing a life of public service is becoming akin to signing one's own death warrant.

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...

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...

Suicide bomber attacks Afghanistan mosque during service for slain Karzai

A suicide bomber struck a Kandahar mosque where a memorial service was being held Thursday for the assassinated half brother of Afghan...

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...