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Pakistan convicts doctor who helped find bin Laden
A doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden was convicted Wednesday of conspiring against the state and sentenced to 33 years in prison, ...
Taliban, Afghan neighbors could hamper NATO's exit
The NATO summit's plan to "responsibly wind down" the Afghan war is not entirely in the hands of President Barack Obama and his fellow world leaders.
Gunmen open fire at rally in Pakistan, 9 killed
Gunmen opened fire on a political rally in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and sparking rioting, police said.
After bombing, somber Yemen marks National Day
Grieving Yemenis held somber ceremonies Tuesday to mark the country's National Day following a suicide bombing a day earlier that killed nearly 100 ...
96 Yemeni soldiers killed in suicide bombing
A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers and wounding at ...
Obama snubs Pakistan head over supply routes
In an unmistakable snub, President Barack Obama left Pakistan off a list of nations he thanked Monday for help getting war supplies into Afghanistan.
Who will drones target? Who in the US will decide?
White House counterterror chief John Brennan has seized the lead in guiding the debate on which terror leaders will be targeted for drone attacks or ...
Obama says Yemen now a hub for foreign terrorists
President Barack Obama says the United States is very worried about al-Qaida terrorism and extremism in Yemen. Obama says Yemen is drawing foreign ...
Violence in Syria spills over into Lebanon
Syria's war barreled over the border with an angry, raucous funeral Monday for an anti-Syrian cleric whose killing set off a night of deadly street ...
Death toll in Yemen bombing rises to 38 soldiers
Officials say the death toll from a suicide bombing at a military parade rehearsal in the capital Sanaa has risen to 38 troops. The military officials ...
Taliban: NATO nations should leave war like France
The Taliban on Sunday urged all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their forces from the war. The call came in a three-page ...
Yemen: 36 killed in fighting with al-Qaida
Yemeni officials say fresh clashes with al-Qaida fighters in the south have left at least 34 people dead, while a suspected U.S. drone strike has ...
Car bomb in eastern Syrian city kills 9
A car bomb in the parking lot of a Syrian military compound killed at least nine people Saturday, the latest in increasingly frequent bombings in the ...
World leaders confront flagging Afghan war
It was what President Barack Obama called a "war of necessity," a conflict thrust upon America by the 9/11 attacks. As NATO's mission here winds down ...
House OKs continued war in Afghanistan
The House endorsed the continued war in Afghanistan on Thursday despite acknowledgment from Republicans and Democrats that the American people are ...
Yemeni army pushing into al-Qaida stronghold
Government troops battling al-Qaida fighters in southern Yemen have made inroads into the militants' strongholds, but the offensive on a strategic ...
Obama warns against political disruption in Yemen
President Barack Obama served notice Wednesday that he would punish those trying to disrupt the political transition in Yemen, a strategically ...
Assad: Ready to show foreign mercenaries to world
In his first interview in nearly half a year, Syrian President Bashar Assad denounced the opposition Syrian National Council as both ineffective and ...
Official: 1 dead from attack on Kenya's coast
Attackers fired shots and detonated four grenades outside a nightclub in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa after they were denied entry, killing a ...
US helps Yemen in offensive on al-Qaida in south
Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery have waged a four-front assault against the strongholds of al-Qaida militants in the south, with ...
Fierce clashes between Yemeni army, al-Qaida
Yemeni military officials say warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery have intensified the war against al-Qaida along at least four fronts in ...
Americans train Ugandans for Somalia mission
American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's ...
Yemeni raids kill 16 al-Qaida militants in south
Yemeni government forces pounded al-Qaida targets on Monday, killing at least 16 militants in the troubled south where the army is trying to uproot ...
AP Exclusive: Moderate Taliban speaks of divisions
One of the most powerful men on the Taliban council, Agha Jan Motasim, nearly lost his life in a hail of bullets for advocating a negotiated ...