French President Francois Hollande visits Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — French President Francois Hollande, on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, defended France's controversial...

2 foreign aid workers kidnapped in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — Two foreign women working for a Swiss-based aid group have been kidnapped in the remote northeastern province...

Pakistan doctor who helped CIA find Osama bin Laden sentenced

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani doctor who led a phony vaccination campaign aimed at helping the CIA pinpoint Osama bin Laden's...

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...

At NATO summit, warm welcome for most leaders, but not Pakistan's

CHICAGO — As thousands of protesters marched in the streets, President Obama welcomed more than 60 world leaders to his heavily...

For Afghanistan's Karzai, funding tops NATO summit agenda

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai, perhaps best known in the West for periodic well-aimed jabs at his NATO allies, is...

Panetta to confront Pakistan at NATO summit on transport costs

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta heads to this weekend's NATO summit prepared to confront Pakistan over what he...

NATO and G-8 summits allow Obama to showcase foreign policy

WASHINGTON — Whatever else they achieve, back-to-back summits of world leaders this weekend hosted by President Obama will showcase...

Ahead of NATO's Chicago summit, members eye the Afghan exits

WASHINGTON — Just days before a NATO summit that leaders had hoped would present a carefully scripted display of unity on Afghanistan,...

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.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warns troops about misconduct

WASHINGTON — In a pointed response to images of Marines urinating on corpses and soldiers posing with body parts, Defense Secretary...

Bin Laden worried about legacy and sought to kill Obama

WASHINGTON — In his final months padding around the dark third-floor room in his cinder-block Pakistan hide-out, the world's most...

Osama bin Laden notes show a plan to overthrow Hamid Karzai

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was devising a strategy for overthrowing Afghan President Hamid Karzai and controlling Afghanistan once...

Obama signs pact, greets troops in surprise Afghanistan visit

KABUL, Afghanistan — Putting a symbolic seal on a long and brutal conflict, President Obama made a dramatic overnight visit to the...

Obama's counter-terrorism advisor defends drone strikes

WASHINGTON — President Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor Monday defended using drones to launch missiles against militants in...

Failed assassination try in Afghanistan leaves 4 dead

KABUL, Afghanistan — Turban bombs had become too obvious. So the two men who apparently set out Saturday to assassinate Kandahar's...

Lawyer in Afghan murder case hopes to put the war on trial

SEATTLE — John Henry Browne's first brush with the U.S. military was during the Vietnam War. The lanky attorney, then a student who...

Member of Afghan elite forces blamed in attack on NATO

KABUL, Afghanistan — For the first time, a member of Afghanistan's elite special forces has carried out a deadly attack against an...

Biden trumpets Obama's foreign policy successes

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's selection of Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008 gave the Democratic ticket greater heft on foreign...

Pakistani prime minister's conviction could mean his ouster

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's Supreme Court convicted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday of contempt for failing to...

Group swiftly gets crucial supplies to troops in Afghanistan

OAKLAND — Aaron Negherbon remembers the plaintive email he received from a Marine sergeant in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan leader seeks swifter troop pullout amid photos furor

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai suggested Thursday that a speeded-up departure of Western troops is the only way to...

Afghanistan needs firm security funding pledges, U.S. says

BRUSSELS — The United States and its allies are promising to provide more than $4 billion a year for Afghanistan's army and police...

Photos of U.S. soldiers posing with Afghan corpses prompt condemnation

From the White House to the American Embassy in Kabul, American officials rushed to distance themselves from the actions of U.S. soldiers...

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...

Afghan forces' strengths, failures on display in Kabul siege

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan police and army have won praise for fighting off one of the war's most ambitious insurgent strikes,...

Afghanistan attacks seem intended to humiliate

KABUL, Afghanistan — The brazen and well-coordinated attacks by insurgents against four embassies and other key sites in the heart...

Pakistan lawmakers approve guidelines for ties with U.S.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's parliament on Thursday approved guidelines that will frame a reset of the country's relations with...

Navy grounds Fire Scout helicopter drones after 2 crashes

TheU.S. Navyhas grounded a fleet of helicopter drones after two of the aircraft crashed overseas within a week.

Afghanistan, U.S. sign night raid authorization pact

KABUL, Afghanistan — Tackling one of the major sources of friction in Washington's tenuous relationship with Kabul, U.S. officials...

Status of Afghan women threatens Hillary Clinton's legacy

WASHINGTON — In the final months of her tenure as secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton is fighting a long retreat on a cause...

Afghanistan arrests preteen would-be bombers months after pardon

Six months ago, in a moving ceremony during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, President Hamid Karzai went on Afghan television to pardon...

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...

Pakistani Hindus' ashes brought to India to be scattered in Ganges

They sat in the dark for decades, waiting on the shelves of an abandoned library, the laughter and tears that once defined their lives all...

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...