17 Afghan civilians killed by roadside bombs in 24 hours

Roadside bombs killed at least 17 Afghan civilians in a 24-hour span, including nine people — a child among them — whose vehicle...

Army Cpl. Brett Land, 24, Wasco; killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan

Marine killed Afghan policeman who pointed gun, military says

A U.S. Marine shot and killed an Afghan policeman who pointed a weapon at him Saturday, Western military officials said. The incident took...

West L.A. students forge relationship with Afghan school

Danielle Katz has a limited Pashto vocabulary — limited but significant.

Deadly day in Afghanistan includes bombing in Kabul

A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up Wednesday next to a minibus carrying members of Afghanistan's main intelligence service,...

Biden seeks to reassure Pakistan

Targeting extremists is the best way to strengthen Pakistan, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday as he defended an aggressive pursuit of...

Joe Biden backtracks on Afghanistan troop pullout date

Normally, the White House cleans up the occasional gaffe by Vice President Joe Biden. But in an appearance Tuesday with Afghanistan's...

Suicide bombing kills 3 in Afghanistan

Insurgents Monday staged the second suicide bombing in four days in a strategic border district in southern Afghanistan, signaling...

Key party rejoins Pakistan's ruling coalition

A key party that had defected this week from Pakistan's ruling coalition returned to the government Friday, a move that averts a major...

Suicide bombing in Afghan bathhouse kills 17

A suicide bomber blew himself up Friday at a public bathhouse in southern Afghanistan that was filled with men washing themselves before the...

With killing of governor, Pakistan's government in turmoil

The brazen assassination Tuesday of a popular and progressive Pakistani governor allied with the nation's president threw an already...

Missile strikes kill at least 19 in Pakistan tribal area

A series of missile strikes killed at least 19 suspected insurgents Saturday in Pakistan's tribal borderlands, signaling that the new year...

2011 seen as make-or-break year for Afghan mission

A U.S. troop buildup in 2010 was meant to blunt the momentum of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. Now it is 2011 that has become the...

Fighting erupts in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains between NATO, insurgent forces

Fighting between NATO forces and insurgents has erupted in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora, best known as the rugged labyrinth where Osama...

Missile strikes inside Pakistan kill 25 suspected insurgents

Missiles presumably fired by U.S. drones on Monday incinerated three trucks thought to be ferrying fighters and weapons from Pakistan's...

Pakistan's blasphemy law seen as tool of oppression

Muslim cleric Muhammad Salim isn't worried that a court or Pakistan's president might spare a Christian woman from this village who has been...

Afghanistan denounces deadly NATO-led raid

The government of President Hamid Karzai on Sunday denounced a NATO-led night raid on a compound in Kabul that killed two men, accusing...

Suicide bomber kills 45 in Pakistan

A suicide bomber dressed in an all-enveloping burka struck at a crowded food distribution center in Pakistan's volatile tribal region...

Pakistan may hand over seized top Baluch militant to Iran

The captured leader of an outlawed militant group that has waged a years-long campaign of bombings and killings against Iranian...

NATO denies that U.S. plans ground raids into Pakistan

The NATO force in Afghanistan denied Tuesday that the American military intends to carry out ground raids inside Pakistan in pursuit of...

West hasn't adequately armed Afghan forces, Karzai spokesman says

A day after 14 Afghan police officers and soldiers were killed in a pair of attacks by insurgents, President Hamid Karzai's spokesman said...

Insurgent attacks kill at least 14 Afghan soldiers, police

Insurgents took aim Sunday at the Afghan security forces, ambushing an army bus in the capital, Kabul, and storming an army recruitment...

CIA identity breach feeds mistrust with Pakistani agency

A breach that sent the CIA's top spy in Pakistan out of the country with his cover blown is likely to cause friction between U.S. and...

CIA recalls Pakistan station chief after his name becomes public

The CIA station chief in Pakistan has been called home, a U.S. official said, after a lawyer for a local journalist publicly revealed the...

Likely Taliban bomb kills 14 on Afghan bus

A roadside bomb probably set by Taliban insurgents killed at least 14 Afghan civilians aboard a minibus Thursday in the country's relatively...