Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, said Thursday that President Obama’s timetable was more aggressive than he had been prepared to accept.
Even as many senior Afghan officials echoed President Hamid Karzai, closer to the ground, local leaders and ordinary people expressed fears of civil war.
President Obama said that the “tide of war is receding” and, in an acknowledgment of domestic economic strains, that “it is time to focus on nation-building here at home.”
As American troops and spending decrease, thousands of Afghans who work at or around bases and under American grants and contracts will lose their jobs.
French authorities also said that the country would begin its own phased troop pullback, contributing to a growing sense of the tide turning in the Western military commitment to Afghanistan.
The move by a court set up by President Hamid Karzai brought Afghanistan closer to a constitutional crisis.
Newly arrived Syrian refugees walked to their tents in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli.
The move on Khirbet al-Jouz on Thursday sent hundreds of refugees fleeing to Turkey.
Gen. Ali Mohsin al-Ahmar, long one of Yemen’s most powerful military commanders and now a prominent opposition figure, continued his criticism of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is a longtime rival.
Demonstrators clash with riot police next to Senegal's parliament building in Dakar.
Demonstrators in Dakar, angry over proposed changes in election rules, clashed with the police and prompted President Abdoulaye Wade to back down.
The Islamic militant group, who captured Staff Sgt. Gilad Shalit during a cross-border raid five years ago, refused to provide proof that the Israeli soldier is still alive.
Mohammed Sharif Malekzadeh has been arrested amid a deepening power struggle between the president and the country’s highest religious leader, Iranian news agencies reported.
Three explosions ripped through a public market on Thursday evening, killing at least 21 people, and leaving a gruesome scene of scattered body parts and bloodied shoppers.
The artist Ai Weiwei, released after being held without charge for 80 days, thanked reporters for their concern and then did something almost unimaginable — he refused to say anything more.
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, a Somali-American, said he would try to revive the country’s war-wrecked economy and establish better security.
A court on Thursday acquitted Geert Wilders, the fiery right-wing Dutch politician, finding that his inflammatory comments were protected speech.
Initiatives include creating a database on food stocks, a joint international research program on wheat and a “rapid response forum” to address crises.
A 30-ton statue of Alexander the Great in Skopje has resonated with citizens but angered Greece, long resentful of what it sees as Macedonia's appropriation of its own Hellenic identity.
The effects of Argentina 2001 debt crisis still linger, and the country’s default at the time is still keeping it away from the global credit market.
The idea of two cities 375 miles apart dividing the energies of a modern state rankles some Germans.
A look back at the major events in the United States military campaign in the country.
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President Obama outlined a sensible, if short on specifics, plan for drawing down our troops in Afghanistan.
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Michael Kimmelman looks at Velázquez’s “View of the Garden of the Villa Medici,” at the Prado, and is transported in time.
For some soldiers, returning after their yearlong deployment to Afghanistan was the beginning of new difficulties.
Classified military documents provide accounts of the men who have done time at the prison and the evidence against the 172 men still locked up there.
Documents related to the 779 people who have been sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison since 2002.
Videos, photographs and interactive features documenting the destruction in Japan after a powerful earthquake and tsunami devastated the country on March 11.
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