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Russia on Monday cited what it called increasing evidence that Syrian rebels were obtaining large amounts of ...

Two American soldiers were killed by a member of the Afghan local police Friday in a new "green-on-blue" attack, NATO ...

The US commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan on Friday accused the Pakistan-based Haqqani network of orchestrating a ...

A suicide bomber killed 16 civilians and three foreign troops on patrol in the provincial Afghan capital of Khost on ...

Pakistan has captured an "important" al Qaeda leader in an operation near the Pakistan-Iran border, officials said on ...

The United States has withdrawn negotiators from Pakistan after talks failed to produce an agreement on reopening NATO ...

China will intensify its vigilance, but not lash back, after the United States announced it will shift most of its ...

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that any military action in Syria would need backing from the United ...

A Pakistani surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden was jailed on Wednesday for 33 years for ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta warned troops Friday that military scandals could suddenly make international ...

US President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai on Friday reaffirmed that US troops would leave ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday said that the U.S. and the Afghan governments should work together for an ...

A Taliban roadside bomb tore through a civilian vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing nine children and ...

The US defense chief held talks in Afghanistan on Wednesday, acknowledging that a series of "deeply troubling" ...

US President Barack Obama called Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday "to express his shock and sadness" over a ...