The top U.S. military officer cautioned Monday against comparing the Pentagon's renewed focus on Afghanistan to the Vietnam War, citing terrorism and a non-occupation strategy as "dramatic differences" between the two conflicts. ...more

February 2, 2009

A suicide bomber attacked police in northwest Pakistan as they rushed to treat civilians wounded by an earlier explosion, killing seven people and injuring at least 25 others, a police official said. ...more

January 5, 2009

Pakistan began moving thousands of troops from the Afghan border toward India, officials and witnesses said Friday, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors and possibly undermining the U.S.-backed campaign against al-Qaida and the Taliban. ...more

December 27, 2008

Afghan tribes are needed as crucial battlefield allies against the Taliban and other extremists in the same way local militias rose up to oppose insurgents in Iraq, the new military overseer of America's two wars said Thursday. ...more

November 7, 2008

A propagandist for Osama bin Laden who vowed to fight anyone who governs America faced a possible life sentence after being convicted Monday of making videos that encouraged al-Qaida members to commit terrorist attacks. ...more

November 4, 2008

Iraq expects Washington's reply on proposed changes to a draft security agreement after the U.S. elections, an aide to the prime minister said Sunday. ...more

November 2, 2008

A former prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay who roiled America's war-crimes trials with accusations the Pentagon withheld evidence from detainees says he will continue to monitor his old cases for any wrongdoing. ...more

October 27, 2008

U.S. troops could face trial in Iraqi courts for major crimes committed off base and when not on missions, under a draft security pact hammered out in months of tortuous negotiations, Iraqi officials familiar with the draft said Wednesday. ...more

October 16, 2008

Cars and trucks loaded with suitcases, mattresses and passengers cradling baskets stuffed with clothes lined up at checkpoints Monday to flee Mosul, a day after the 10th killing of an Iraqi Christian in the northern city so far this month. ...more

October 14, 2008

TROY, N.Y. (AP) -- Who is running for president? In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama." ...more

October 10, 2008