The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzais brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban, raising fears over the Islamist movements increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner circles of power in Afghanistan.
The United States has withdrawn 650 of its soldiers from Afghanistan, in accordance with a drawdown plan announced by President Barack Obama last month, US military confirmed Friday.
Iraq will buy armaments worth $13 billion from the United States by 2013 and will spend another $13 bn on weapons later, a Baghdad newspaper reported citing an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman.
Two explosive packages on cargo planes from Yemen were addressed to Jewish synagogues in Chicago in a "credible terrorist threat" against the US, Barack Obama said. Here is a timeline of key developments
Young men from some of Iraq’s poorest areas waited all night outside an army recruitment center, only to become easy prey yesterday for a suicide bomber, who killed 61
he US government has launched an investigation into the leaking of more than 90,000 pages of classified information about the conflict in Afghanistan, the White House said Monday.
Talks between Iraqs political blocs on forming a new government remain bogged down four months after Inconclusive parliamentary elections seen as a test of the countrys stability.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at the Kabul Conference Tuesday that international forces would remain to support Afghan forces even after the latter take over security responsibility for the country.
Some 15,000 troops of Afghan and NATO forces are involved in a massive offensive launched in southern Afghanistans Helmand province Saturday morning, coalition forces said.
NATO troops are going to die in the alliances planned Afghan-led assault in the centre of Helmand province, but it is the only way to establish the Afghan governments rule over the country, NATOs spokesman said Wednesday.
Danish special forces have stormed a ship captured by Somali pirates and freed 25 crew members with no casualties, a European Union naval spokesman and the Danish navy said Friday.