Afghanistan forces prepared for NATO withdrawal, Karzai says

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that Afghan security forces were ready to protect the country if the U.S.-...

Optimists see an opening for better India-Pakistan ties

ATTARI, India — Real estate prices have jumped sharply in recent months in this area where India meets Pakistan, as resorts and...

Wounded Pakistan teen is now face of girls education movement

Malala Yousafzai did not trade in her modest head scarf for a pair of skinny jeans. She wanted to go to school.

Afghanistan at a crossroads, in no-man's land

HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan — The sun pounds down on the U.S. Marine sergeant and the tribal elder in this faceless, bone-colored...

Pakistan outraged over girl's shooting, but crackdown on Taliban unlikely

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — On city streets, on the airwaves and in the newspapers of a country numbed by years of bombings and...

NATO's secretary-general discusses Afghanistan, Libya

BRUSSELS — Since becoming head of the world's most durable military alliance three years ago, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh...

Pakistan sends former Taliban fighters to militant rehab

LAHORE, Pakistan — The seed of jihad was planted in Shahbaz Ahmed in 2001 when fundamentalist mosques in Pakistan welled up with...

Change of U.S. command expected in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON – The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan is being transferred and another Marine general will take over the war...

Drone strikes in Pakistan have killed many civilians, study says

Far more civilians have been killed by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas than U.S. counter-terrorism officials have...

NATO halts routine joint patrols with Afghan forces

KABUL, Afghanistan — Across Afghanistan, at combat outposts in the wind-scoured desert and the jagged mountains, it was daily routine:...

NATO disasters stack up in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — In a disastrous day for the NATO force in Afghanistan, four American troops were gunned down Sunday by Afghan...

Taliban targeted Afghanistan base to get to Prince Harry

KABUL, Afghanistan — Does a prince's presence endanger those serving alongside him?

Anti-American unrest spreads in Muslim world

CAIRO — Anti-American violence erupted across the Muslim world for a third day, with enraged protesters scaling the walls of U.S....

Triple-amputee Marine gets keys to 'smart home' in Temecula

TEMECULA — To visit Cpl. Juan Dominguez in his new "smart home" adapted to his combat injuries, his friends will wind through...

Skateboarders among victims of Afghanistan bombing

KABUL, Afghanistan — When 14-year-old Khorshid took to her skateboard, her face would light up with an enormous smile. For an Afghan...

Pakistan weary of hosting millions of Afghan refugees

KHAZANA, Pakistan — Awal Gul knows that home is just a two-hour drive over the jagged ridgeline that separates Pakistan from...

U.S. designates Haqqani network a terrorist organization

WASHINGTON — The State Department on Friday designated Pakistan's Haqqani network a foreign terrorist organization, opening the way...

Libyan says he was waterboarded in CIA custody

WASHINGTON — A Libyan man says he was waterboarded while in CIA custody in Afghanistan, a new allegation that challenges the long-...

Afghan police recruits to be rescreened; U.S. suspends training

KABUL, Afghanistan — American special operations forces have suspended the training of new recruits to an Afghan village militia until...

Ex-Navy SEAL who wrote Bin Laden book gets warning from Pentagon

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon formally warned a former Navy SEAL who has written a first-person account of the raid that killed Osama...

Pentagon reviews ex-Navy SEAL's book about Osama bin Laden raid

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon and CIA are reviewing a forthcoming book by a retired Navy SEAL who was on the May 2011 raid that killed...

Pentagon finds soldiers who burned Korans ignored Afghan warnings

WASHINGTON — A Pentagon investigation into the burning of Korans at a U.S.-run prison in Afghanistan in February found that American...

U.S. drone strikes kill 18 in Pakistan near Afghanistan border

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A barrage of missiles fired by U.S. drones killed at least 18 people in northwest Pakistan on Friday, the latest...

Afghanistan, U.S. disagree on culprits behind 'insider' shootings

KABUL, Afghanistan — A potentially serious rift has emerged in the way the Afghan and U.S. governments view "insider" shootings,...

Army sergeant sentenced to 30 days for private's suicide death

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- Army Sgt. Adam Holcomb was sentenced to 30 days in prison Tuesday and was reduced in rank for assaulting and maltreating...

Lakeshore resort in Afghanistan shattered by violence

KABUL, Afghanistan — To the people ofAfghanistan's teeming, dusty capital, sparkling blue Lake Karga on the city's outskirts has...

Pakistan offers little justice for victims of acid attacks

FAISALABAD, Pakistan — The cherub-faced 10-year-old girl was standing at a bus stop, saying goodbye to visiting relatives, when her...

NATO summit: Obama's Pakistan gamble falls flat

CHICAGO — When the White House sent a last-minute invitation for Asif Ali Zardari to attend the two-day NATO summit, they were...

Pakistanis fear becoming isolated

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — As U.S. frustration with Pakistan's six-month blockade of Afghanistan-bound supplies became painfully apparent...

Afghan assassination casts more gloom over peace efforts

KABUL, Afghanistan — A brazen daytime assassination on Sunday offered a grim reminder of stymied progress in a key part of NATO's...

Afghan police units tangled in criminal activity

WASHINGTON — A U.S.-backed program to recruit police in rural Afghanistan has failed to significantly stem the insurgency, with...

A U.S. soldier and the Afghan soldier who killed him

KABUL, Afghanistan — In many ways, the two young soldiers were not so different from each other.

U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers

The paratroopers had their assignment: Check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide...

Civilian contractors playing key roles in U.S. drone operations

After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to...

Multiple missteps led to drone killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan

On the evening of April 5, a pilot settled into a leather captain's chair at Creech Air Force Base in southern Nevada and took the...

Osama bin Laden, born to privilege, dies a pariah

Osama bin Laden, a scion of one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families, became the grim apostle of a strain of Islamic radicalism that...