WASHINGTON — The Pentagon inspector general has cleared the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan of allegations that he sent...
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least two police officers were killed Monday when five gunmen armed with suicide vests and rocket-propelled...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Suspected insurgents continue to be tortured at numerous Afghan detention facilities, the United Nations reported...
KABUL, Afghanistan — She was just an ordinary brown mutt, a stray, but Pvt. Conrad Lewis loved her.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The firebrand cleric who led a massive street rally aimed at bringing down the Pakistani government called off...
Sergio Santiago Syjuco said he looked up to Richard Han, who was older, wealthy and clearly important.
BEIJING — China's economy rebounded in the fourth quarter, softening the blow of its slowest annual growth in a decade.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A team of suicide bombers attacked a compound belonging to Afghanistan's spy agency Wednesday, killing at least...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Tahirul Qadri, the fiery Islamic cleric leading a large antigovernment protest in the heart of the capital,...
All 24 of Japan's Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger jets were grounded for safety checks after one of the planes operated by All Nippon...
INNAMREDIYARPATTI, India — Michael headed for work at a textile mill, leaving his wife, children and infirm mother at home in this...
NEW DELHI — The 23-year-old physiotherapy student was a woman with a dream. Her tuition paid from the sale of...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday sought to reassure an anxious public that security will not be...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Tens of thousands of protesters led by a firebrand Islamic cleric descended on the Pakistani capital Monday in a...
BEIJING — A large swath of China has been gripped for days by what is being called an "airpocalyse," a prolonged spell of the worst...
TARIN KOWT, Afghanistan — A shy boy with filthy hands and a shabby tunic approached the great man, bowed and tried to kiss his hand.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The "Arab Spring" seems a long way from Pakistan's winter of discontent.
BEIJING — China's coldest winter in nearly three decades sent vegetable prices soaring and drove inflation to a seven-month high in...
LAS VEGAS — For a corpse, the International Consumer Electronics Show was pretty lively.
WASHINGTON — Battling a potent insurgency and waning support in Washington, Afghan President Hamid Karzai will meet President Obama on...
China's "Little Emperors" — the generations of only-children born under the government's rigid "one child" policy — are living...
MULTAN, Pakistan — The mounds of clay are so heavy that they have warped Shahbaz's creaky wooden cart. The 10-year-old boy's spindly...
GUANGZHOU, China — Like wedding guests separated across the aisle, the protesters assembled on either side of a gated driveway at...
WASHINGTON — When North Korea launched a small satellite into orbit last month for the first time, U.S. officials called it a cover...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to slash U.S. forces in Afghanistan by more than half during the next 16 months, a...
WASHINGTON — Nearly a decade after the last Al Qaeda detainee was waterboarded, Americans still know little about what the CIA did...
WASHINGTON — Speaking out for the first time since he resigned, retired Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal takes the blame for a...
WASHINGTON — After complaining for weeks that the movie “Zero Dark Thirty” erroneously implies that torture yielded key...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Rahmatullah, an illiterate young man with a wispy beard and remnants of teenage acne, may represent the last,...
BEIJING – How does the Chinese worker kick off the new year? With eight consecutive days of work, starting Friday.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Shoqofa never liked her nose. She thought it was too wide.
HONG KONG — The hottest properties in this frenetic city have no walls, windows or even front doors. Forget condos, apartments and...
XIANG TIAN HU, Taiwan — Chu Kuo-sheng danced for 24 hours in the cold mountain rain to draw attention to a seldom-discussed chapter of...
At her store in Chinatown, Tracy Tieu replaces red and green Christmas trinkets with red and gold Lunar New Year decorations as she greets...
BEIJING — The men who barged through Shen Jianzhong's door probably thought it was a routine assignment: Break in and beat Shen's...
NEW DELHI — Police charged six suspects in India with murder Saturday just hours after the victim of a gang rape died, in a case...
BEIJING — Shunned by the most of the world as a pariah state, North Korea is cementing ties with its old patron, China, with trade...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Unlike most women in Afghanistan, Sourya Saleh knows how to drive — but she's taken the wheel only with her...
SUROBI, Afghanistan — Col. Babagul Aamal is a proud veteran of 28 years in the Afghan National Army. Short and fit, with a thick black...
China's movie business continued its rapid growth in 2012, and for the first time in four years Hollywood imports accounted for the majority...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Recent pronouncements by the Taliban have raised the possibility that the insurgents may be softening their...
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan policewoman shot and killed an American civilian advisor Monday at the police headquarters in the...
YANGON, Myanmar — It was a subtle, but effective, way for critics to rankle the brutal generals running the country during the darkest...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Eric Schmidt, Google's ambassador in chief, is going where few Internet executives have...
In the L.A. housing market, "gangnam style" appears to lose some of its trend-setting meaning in the translation.
SEOUL — Park Geun-hye, the daughter of the strongman who ruled South Korea for much of the 1960s and 1970s, was elected Wednesday as...
SEOUL — Park Geun-hye has been in the public eye since she was 9 years old, when her father took control of South Korea in a 1961...
BEIJING — For members of a doomsday cult in China, the end may indeed be near.
LETPADAUNG TAUNG, Myanmar — For generations, Ko Myint Tin and his ancestors grew wheat, corn and onions on this fertile land in...
MANILA — Ignoring the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines' warning that "contraception corrupts the soul," the...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The man hired to go after a nation of tax evaders jabs his finger at his laptop screen as he scrolls through a...
TOKYO — The conservative party that dominated postwar Japan was returned to power, after a three-year absence, in a landslide election...
SEOUL — When Kim Jong Un inherited the leadership of North Korea a year ago, he was something of a laughingstock, an overweight rich...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans on keeping 6,000 to 9,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014, fewer than previously...
WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials said they intend to put more energy into working with other major powers, especially...
BEIJING — For millions of Chinese, the difference between a life of struggle and one of opportunity comes down to a little red booklet...
SEOUL — Despite earlier reports of technical difficulties, North Korea launched a long-range rocket Wednesday, and initial reports...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Fifteen U.S. soldiers huddle in a circle. A blue Toyota packed with explosives has been reported somewhere...
KABUL, Afghanistan — American and Afghan forces rescued an American doctor who had been kidnapped by the Taliban in eastern...
Capping a record year of Chinese deal-making in the U.S., a consortium of state-owned and private investors is planning the biggest...
BEIJING — Yang Jin shot his first film, "The Black and White Milk Cow," in his hometown in 2004 for $1,600. He asked villagers to be...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community is nearing completion of its first detailed review of cyber-spying against American...
KABUL, Afghanistan — In her small village of Kalota, north of Kabul, the young woman named Hanisa was known to be headstrong and...
BEIJING — It could have been any of his recent articles: The one on violent revolution was particularly sensitive, as was another on...
BEIJING — No more long, boring speeches. No red carpets, floral displays and grand banquets.
MOSCOW — A journalist with Russian state television was killed and a government official was injured in separate attacks in the...
PARWAN-A-DUH CAMP, Afghanistan — Winter is descending on the Shakur clan.
Matthew P. Manoukian, a captain in the U.S....
After a fellow soldier died, Army Sgt. Richard Essex...
Han Suyin defiantly straddled two worlds decades before multiculturalism became fashionable.
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