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