Afghan hospital hit by suicide bomber; 6 killed

The medical trainees were just settling in for lunch when the bomber struck.

Pakistani killed in attack on U.S. vehicles in Peshawar

A car bombing Friday targeted two U.S. Consulate vehicles in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing a Pakistani bystander and slightly...

Camp Pendleton honors 125 Marines and sailors killed in the last year in Afghanistan

For 78-year-old Harry Mixer, a retired Marine Corps master gunnery sergeant who served in Korea and Vietnam, the event Friday hit all the...

36 killed in attack on work crew in Afghanistan

Insurgents massacred 36 workers at a road-construction encampment in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, provincial and company officials said,...

25 killed in Afghanistan protest, car bombing

Furious anti-American protesters poured into the streets of a city in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, shouting out objections to an...

Gates sees no evidence top Pakistani officials knew of Bin Laden's hide-out

Osama bin Laden's hide-out was probably known to "somebody" in Pakistan before the U.S. raid that killed him, but there is no sign that...

NATO helicopters crossed into airspace, Pakistan says

Pakistani authorities said two NATO helicopters crossed from Afghanistan into their country's airspace Tuesday and exchanged gunfire with an...

Afghanistan female journalist has notebook, will report

Mina Habib has been waiting for half an hour at police headquarters, preparing for a showdown with the chief of criminal investigations.

4 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan

A powerful homemade bomb killed four U.S. service members Monday in southern Afghanistan, military officials said, an unusually high...

John Kerry points up 'disturbing' signs about Pakistan's knowledge of insurgent activity

There are "disturbing" signs Pakistan's government knows about insurgents crossing from their country into Afghanistan, U.S. Sen. John Kerry...

Tackling mental health problems in Afghanistan

The group therapy session at Afghanistan's flagship mental health hospital began, as many do, with sharing.

Pakistan condemns Bin Laden raid, threatens reprisals for drone strikes

At a marathon closed-door session, Pakistan's parliament Saturday joined the country's intelligence chief in strongly condemning the U.S....

Afghans protest killing of teenage boy by U.S. forces

Hundreds of Afghans demonstrated Saturday after a 15-year-old boy was killed by U.S. forces in a volatile eastern province. At least one...

U.S.-Pakistani relations may suffer after brutal suicide attack

Twin suicide bombings Friday that killed at least 80 paramilitary recruits in northwest Pakistan, in an attack that Taliban militants said...

U.S. to limit Afghan troop expansion

After months of internal deliberations, the Obama administration has decided to limit the expansion of Afghanistan's army and police...

Pakistani bombings kill 80

Two bomb blasts outside a Pakistani paramilitary base killed 80 people near the city of Charsadda on Friday in what appeared to be the first...

Review board weighs in on Afghan detainees

The teenager in the white prayer cap and prison uniform with a number scrawled across the front in black marker took his place on the stand,...

Pakistan TV unmasks supposed top CIA agent but reportedly gets it wrong

A private Pakistani television network has divulged what it claims is the name of the CIA's current station chief in Islamabad, the second...

U.S. seeks access to Bin Laden widows in Pakistan

The Obama administration Sunday pressed Pakistan to grant the United States access to Osama bin Laden's three widows as part of an...

In wake of Osama bin Laden's death, Taliban may be considering options

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his allies in Washington are hoping that Osama bin Laden's demise will prod the Taliban into joining peace...

In Afghanistan, insurgents launch deadly assault in Kandahar

Insurgent gunmen and suicide bombers launched fierce simultaneous attacks Saturday against half a dozen government buildings in the troubled...

Bodybuilding bounces back in Afghanistan

Mr. Afghanistan is doing his best not to break the leg press as he flexes his toned calves, pumping away under the fluorescent lights of...

Al Qaeda threatens revenge against U.S.

Al Qaeda vowed to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden with retaliation against the U.S. "soon," in a warning that the terrorist network...

Pakistan army concedes failure, but warns U.S. against future raids

Pakistan's top army commanders Thursday acknowledged their country's failure to detect Osama bin Laden's presence in the garrison city of...

Mystery shrouds the quiet man who built Bin Laden's compound

The builder of Osama bin Laden's last lair was a polite but taciturn man who kept the neighbors at arm's length and prying eyes from...