Pentagon: US to look at own role in Afghan graft

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining...

NATO: 2 US service members killed in southern Afghanistan

KABUL — NATO says 2 US service members have been killed in southern Afghanistan.

Afghans on hold, awaiting Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama decisions

KABUL — Its protracted presidential election has finally been decided, but Afghanistan is on hold. President...

Afghans say attack in east shows Taliban strength

KABUL — A rocket attack apparently targeting French forces that killed ordinary Afghans raised concerns today...

Somali pirates get $3.3M ransom, free 36 hostages

MOGADISHU, Somalia — As a Spanish warship looked on, a $3.3 million ransom was delivered by boat today...

12 Afghans killed in attack on meeting with French

TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan — Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians...

Norwegian journalist describes Taliban kidnapping

OSLO — Taliban captors in Afghanistan threatened to execute a kidnapped Norwegian journalist unless a $500,000...

French, Afghan troops push into hostile valley

TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan — Hundreds of French and Afghan troops on Sunday pushed into a hostile valley...

Kosovo voters take to polls in test of new nation

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s prime minister urged minority Serbs not to boycott the country’s...

Serbian Orthodox Church head Pavle dies at 95

BELGRADE, Serbia — Patriarch Pavle, who led Serbia’s Christian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist...

Report says 75 percent of Americans unfit to serve in military

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Chalk up another national-security threat _ this one looming with each excess pound, failing...

Suicide bomber attacks military convoy near Kabul

KABUL — A suicide car bomber attempting to strike an international military convoy on the outskirts of Kabul...

Attacks kill 16 in Pakistan, spy agency targeted

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber in a pickup truck attacked the northwestern regional headquarters...

Paratrooper ‘Gave the world his all’

Army paratrooper Benjamin Sherman probably died the way he lived, his wife said, doing whatever he could to...

Missing US soldier’s body found in Afghanistan

KABUL — Military divers have found the body of one of two U.S. soldiers who disappeared last week as they...