Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he was in "full agreement" with President Obama's strategy for Afghanistan, saying it was "exactly what the Afghan people were hoping for." ...more

March 29, 2009

With each image of police dragging demonstrators into vans, and each announcement of protest rallies banned, more and more Pakistanis are seeing a replay of the political turmoil that led to the end of a military government last year. ...more

March 16, 2009

As Roland Burris, the junior senator from Illinois, took his first turn presiding over the Senate last week, hired staff members to fill his Washington office and announced co-sponsorship of a measure commemorating the role of slaves in building the Capitol, politicians back home were plotting who might replace him. ...more

March 2, 2009

The terrorism threat to the United States during the next five years will be driven by instability in the Middle East and Africa, persistent challenges to border security and increasing Internet savvy, says a new intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press. ...more

December 26, 2008

Who hasn't driven by a gas station lately and seen prices hovering around $2 a gallon and not felt positively giddy? It's as if motorists have awakened from a bad dream where the price of a gallon of gas was almost twice that and our car-loving culture and fragile household budgets were being strangled. ...more

November 14, 2008

Al-Qaida has exploited recent political turmoil in Pakistan to strengthen its foothold along the country's border with Afghanistan, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said Tuesday in an assessment that also warned of a heightened risk of attack during the upcoming U.S. election season. ...more

August 13, 2008

The winners of what may be the most anticipated election this country has held will be settled the usual way Monday, by the number of ballots and fierce arguments over how they are counted. That, and perhaps the number of guns. ...more

February 17, 2008

Gunmen killed three people in an attack Saturday on a party office of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, police said - the first reported deaths apparently linked to Pakistan's current election campaign. ...more

December 9, 2007

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government dismissed a last-ditch U.S. call to end emergency rule, leaving the Bush administration with limited options Sunday in steering its nuclear-armed ally back toward democracy. ...more

November 19, 2007

Washington's No. 2 diplomat delivered a blunt message to Pakistan's military ruler, telling him that emergency rule must be lifted and his opponents freed ahead of elections. ...more

November 18, 2007