Marine general's son laid to rest at Arlington

Amid a military tradition honed by the agony of warfare, Marine 1st Lt. Robert Michael Kelly was honored and buried Monday at Arlington...

Taliban scorns plan giving NATO option to linger in Afghanistan

The Taliban on Sunday scoffed at NATO plans to hand over most security responsibilities to Afghan forces in the coming three years while...

Pakistan rejects U.S. drone expansion

Pakistan has rejected a request from the United States to expand its drone missile campaign against Al Qaeda and Taliban militants, a...

NATO sets 2014 target for Afghan pullout

A NATO summit originally intended to allow members to signal an exit date for the unpopular 9-year-old war in Afghanistan instead...

U.S. appears ready to acknowledge a long haul in Afghanistan

President Obama built his Afghanistan strategy around the bet that he could quickly turn around a "must win" war by narrowing his goals...

Unpopular Afghan war presents challenge to NATO

What NATO talks about when it talks about Afghanistan depends largely on who's listening.

7 NATO troops slain in Afghanistan

The Western military on Sunday suffered its most lethal day in a month in Afghanistan, with seven troops killed in the south and east, the...

In western Afghan city, Iran makes itself felt

Call it a case of dueling consulates.

New legislator must do his job while deployed in Afghanistan

Newly elected Assemblyman Jeff Gorell is on a mission, it just wasn't the one he expected.

Insurgent attacks ripple across Afghanistan

Violence hopscotched across Afghanistan on Saturday, as a bombing killed 10 people in a northern province and coalition troops repelled an...

Pakistan suicide bombing kills 20

A suicide truck bombing Thursday brought down a police building and surrounding structures in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, killing at...

At Arlington, 'we all share in the same loss'

It's a perfect autumn Sunday and Chad Weikel is sitting outdoors, having a beer with his big brother, Ian. Chad's beer is resting in the cup...

U.S. concerns grow as militants move bases along Pakistan border

A militant network that is a major Western adversary in Afghanistan is expanding its reach into tribal badlands outside its longtime...

War crimes hearing begins for soldier in Afghan deaths

The alleged ringleader of what authorities say was a rogue U.S. Army platoon in Afghanistan goaded his comrades into killing innocent Afghan...

Bodies of 5 Afghan police officers recovered

The bodies of five more of the Afghan police officers captured last week by the Taliban in a rural district have been recovered, and...

Afghan soldier killed at least 2 U.S. troops, Taliban claims

Western military officials said Saturday they were investigating Taliban claims that an Afghan soldier shot and killed at least two U.S....

Navy SEAL, 2 others accused of arms smuggling

A Navy SEAL and two other men have been charged with smuggling illegal firearms, including AK-47 assault rifles, from Iraq and Afghanistan...

Plane crash kills 22 in Pakistan

A small plane carrying 22 people crashed near the airport in Pakistan's largest city on Friday after the pilot warned of engine troubles, an...

65 slain in Pakistan mosque bombing

At least 65 people were killed Friday afternoon in a suicide bombing at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan filled with worshipers, the latest...

Taliban suspected in deaths of four Afghan police officers

Authorities in a troubled province south of the Afghan capital said Thursday that four police officers were killed, apparently while...

Taliban fighters briefly overrun Afghan district, abduct 16 police officers

The Taliban didn't even need to fire a shot. A band of insurgents overran a small rural district in eastern Afghanistan before dawn Monday,...

Afghan civilian deaths caused by allied forces rise

U.S. and allied forces have failed to reduce the number of civilian fatalities caused by them in Afghanistan despite a two-year effort by...

Karzai denounces drug raid in Afghanistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday denounced a large-scale drug raid in which U.S. forces and Russian drug agents took part,...

Pakistani criminal justice system proves no match for terrorism cases

To find the office of the prosecutor in charge of putting Islamabad's bomb builders and terrorist masterminds behind bars, visitors must...

U.S.-Afghan forces, aided by Russian agents, seize drug facilities in major raid

U.S. and Afghan forces working with Russian agents destroyed millions of dollars' worth of drugs at several heroin and opium production...