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US, allies begin major war games in Jordan

The United States and its allies have started in Jordan what was described as the largest military exercises in the ...

Merkel says NATO must stick to Afghanistan timetable

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the timetable laid out by NATO for international troops to withdraw ...

Panetta warns US troops to avoid scandals

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

Karzai says NATO failed as 18-hr Kabul attack ends

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that a coordinated Taliban attack showed a "failure" by Afghan ...

Bomber kills four American troops in Afghan north

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives on Wednesday in Afghanistan`s northern Faryab province, killing at least 10 ...

Syria accepts april 10 peace deadline: Annan

Syria has agreed to "immediately" start pulling troops out of protest cities, UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said ...

Israel`s next-generation drones: smaller, smarter, deadlier

David Harari nostalgically recalls the day the Israel Air Force, stunned by the loss of fighter jets and aviators to ...

UN to add more women to its peacekeeping missions

Visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has committed himself to encouraging the participation of women in UN ...

Afghanistan wants early security handover: Karzai

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

NATO showing "restraint" in Afghanistan

NATO troops are displaying "great restraint" in Afghanistan in the face of a wave of violent unrest that left four US ...

34 militants killed in northwest Pakistan

At least 34 militants were killed by the Pakistani security forces in the country`s northwest tribal areas along the ...

Afghan defense minister warns about US plan

The Afghan defense minister warned late Friday that a US proposal to cut the size of Afghan security forces by more ...

Mosque suicide attack kills six in Afghanistan

A suicide bomber on Friday attacked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, assassinating a district police chief and killing ...

Germany to reduce troop contingent in Afghanistan

Germany will start to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan at the start of 2012, cutting its contingent to 4,900 ...

U.S. to pull out troops from Iraq by end-2011

U.S. President Barack Obama said all American troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year, ending a long war which ...