Bin Laden capture was an uncorker of an event

The U.S. government offered a $25-million bounty for Osama bin Laden, but there was a lesser-known enticement for then-CIA chief Leon...

Afghan leader's office says Pakistan remarks misinterpreted

Parsing statements by President Hamid Karzai has become something of a parlor game in the Afghan capital.

U.S. changes approach to pressing Pakistan on Haqqani network

Faced with Pakistan's unwillingness to uproot the Haqqani network from its territory, Washington is now pressing Islamabad to force the...

U.S. delivers blunt message to Pakistan on Haqqani network

The U.S. needs Pakistan's cooperation to succeed against an insurgent group that uses sanctuaries along the Afghan border from which to...

Fearful Pakistanis spurn polio vaccines

Whenever Safa sees her father readying the brace, she fidgets and sobs. It's not very comfortable and already too small, but without it...

U.S. deaths in drone strike due to miscommunication, report says

A Marine and a Navy medic killed by a U.S. drone airstrike were targeted when Marine commanders in Afghanistan mistook them for Taliban...

Suspected insurgents tortured in Afghanistan, U.N. says

Suspected insurgents in Afghan custody have been subjected to torture including electric shocks, being hung by their hands and having...

Damian Lewis happy to be troubled in 'Homeland'

Damian Lewis has played a vast range of characters, from emotionally racked fathers to villainous aristocrats. But his recent...

Afghans say plot to kill President Hamid Karzai uncovered

For a beleaguered and increasingly isolated Afghan President Hamid Karzai, revelations of an alleged assassination plot hatched in...

In troubled Pakistan, a humanitarian light shines through

He owns a single set of clothing and often sleeps in a storage room — even though millions of dollars pass through his hands...

India, Afghanistan pledge cooperation

Pakistan may not have had an envoy in the room when Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met here Tuesday,...

Pakistan rejects claim of ISI role in Afghan's assassination

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry on Sunday strongly rejected claims that the nation's premier spy agency was involved in the assassination of...

In Afghanistan, the West and allies fight a murky foe

After 10 years of fighting in Afghanistan, Western forces and their Afghan allies are finding no simple answer to a seemingly...

Senior militant leader in Afghanistan caught

Western forces in Afghanistan said Saturday that they had captured a senior leader of the militant Haqqani network, the group blamed for...

CIA base attacked in Kabul; 1 American killed

In a rare and lethal security breach at the CIA's main base in Afghanistan's capital, a local employee shot and killed one U.S. citizen...

In show of unity, top Pakistanis meet and denounce U.S. charges

Pakistani political leaders meeting Thursday in the capital denounced U.S. allegations that the country's premier spy agency assisted...

Pakistan's unlikely storyteller of the Swat Valley

Four decades ago, a rangy civil servant in charge of overseeing the forested ridges and brick-hut villages of Pakistan's Swat Valley...

Kabul residents angry, fearful after string of deadly attacks

When the shooting started, the lunchtime crowd at Musa Burger scattered. The tea-seller abandoned his burning brazier. The kitchen worker...

Sexy TV host's popularity underscores Pakistan's contradictions

Raunchy. An inspiration. A sex kitten. Pakistan's Paris Hilton.

Pakistan warns that U.S. accusations may cost Washington an ally

Pakistani officials warned Friday that they could jettison the United States as an ally if American officials continued to accuse Islamabad'...

Protests break out at Afghanistan peace negotiator's funeral

Angry protests against Afghan President Hamid Karzai erupted Friday at the burial of his government's chief peace negotiator, who was killed...

Pakistani spy agency aided Afghan militant attacks, U.S. says

Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency communicated with Afghan insurgents who attacked the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in central...

Slaying of Afghan peace negotiator Rabbani remains a mystery

Mourners thronged the streets of the capital on Wednesday near the home of slain Afghan peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani, while the...

Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani assassinated

Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed by a suicide bomber on Tuesday in his home in the capital, the latest in a series...

Marine is awarded rare Medal of Honor at White House

The desperate call crackled over the radio in predawn darkness: A small team of American and Afghan troops was pinned down in a remote...