House Dem pushes for repeal of military force law
President Barack Obama and Congress need to rethink the broad authority for the use of military force in the war on terror, a law written when many U.

Afghan Taliban boldly attack on Kabul airport
Seven Taliban fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns launched a rare assault on NATO's operational headquarters at the military ...

Pakistan president to new leaders: Stop militancy
Pakistan's president, in what will likely be his last major speech to parliament, urged the new government on Monday to keep up the fight against ...
Afghan authorities: Battle near Kabul airport over
Afghan authorities say a battle with insurgents near Kabul's international airport has ended and all the attackers have been killed. Ministry of ...

Army leaders walk fine line as Afghan advisers
— In previous years, the U.S. Army would have helped the Afghan National Army if their troops had run out of fuel or money or run into some other ...

Afghan president visits Qatar to discuss peace
Afghanistan's president landed in Qatar Sunday to discuss his country's stalled peace process and the possible opening of a Taliban office in the Gulf ...

Insider attack kills 3 Americans in Afghanistan
A man in an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on American trainers working with him in the country's east on Saturday, killing three of them, ...
Georgia minister visits Afghanistan after 7 deaths
Georgia's defense minister visited his troops in Afghanistan on Friday, a day after seven Georgian soldiers were killed in a huge truck bomb blast at ...
Georgia says 6 soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Georgia's Defense Ministry says at least six Georgian soldiers have been killed in an attack by insurgents in Afghanistan. Ministry spokesman Irakli ...
Afghan governor: Airstrike kills 3; NATO denies
The governor of an eastern province in Afghanistan alleged on Thursday that an overnight NATO airstrike killed three civilians and wounded seven ...

Soldier pleads guilty in massacre of 16 Afghans
Seated at a table with his hands folded in front of him, twiddling his thumbs, an American soldier dryly spoke about how he slipped away from his base ...
Russia arrests suspect in foiled terror attacks
Russia's counter-terrorism agency says special forces arrested a man Thursday who is accused of planning a terrorist attack on Moscow that the agency ...

The Latest: Soldier speaks about Afghan massacre
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the American soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians during nighttime raids on two villages last year, pleaded ...

Israel leads global drone exports as demand grows
In an expansive hangar in central Israel, workers toil on one of the world's most contentious aircraft, fitting dozens of drones with advanced ...

US, Germany, Italy vow key Afghan roles post-2014
Germany and Italy will join the United States as "lead nations" in regions of Afghanistan after NATO transitions into a noncombat mission there after ...

Fort Hood suspect says he was protecting Taliban
An Army psychiatrist charged with gunning down Fort Hood soldiers said Tuesday his defense would show that he was compelled to do so because deploying ...

NATO to discuss post-2014 Afghan war details
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said it will likely be the fall before he is ready to recommend how many troops the U.S. and its allies should ...

Afghans demand arrest of US troops over killings
Hundreds of Afghans blocked a major highway south of Kabul on Tuesday, carrying freshly dug-up bodies they claimed were victims of torture by U.S.

Bomb kills 9 Afghan children, 2 US troops
A suicide bomber targeting U.S. troops outside an Afghan government office killed nine children walking home from school and two of the Americans on ...
Afghan official: Taliban didn't down cargo plane
A joint U.S.-Afghan investigation into the crash of a civilian cargo jet in Afghanistan that killed seven Americans has ruled out insurgent ...

House GOP defense bill blocks Guantanamo closing
Rebuffing President Barack Obama's latest plea, House Republicans on Monday proposed keeping open the military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by ...

NATO to discuss Libya training, Afghanistan
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and other NATO defense ministers plan to take up the issue of training Libyan security forces as that country battles ...
US transfers prisoner to Mauritania
A Mauritanian official says that the United States has transferred one of its prisoners held in Afghanistan to Mauritania. A Mauritanian security ...
Afghan Taliban kill 4 police in checkpoint attacks
Taliban insurgents attacked two checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan, killing four police officers in the latest test of Afghan forces' abilities as ...
3 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan
NATO says three of its service members and one civilian working with the international coalition in Afghanistan have been killed in three separate ...