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.
Two suicide bombers targeted a NATO-led military base and a police station in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing two US soldiers and ten Afghan civilians, officials said.
Iraq′s Camp Bucca, the US-run jail where around 100,000 prisoners were kept over six years, was a breeding ground for the Al-Qaeda terror network, according to police and former inmates.
Contradictory accounts of dead and injured from Afghan and Western forces and eyewitnesses have left a confused picture of an American military supply drop that appears to have gone disastrously wrong.
Persistent accounts of Western forces in Afghanistan using their helicopters to ferry Taliban fighters, strongly denied by the military, is feeding mistrust of the forces that are supposed to be bringing order to the country.
Twin suicide car bombs blamed on Al-Qaeda blasted the justice ministry and a provincial office in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 90 people and sparking turmoil in the embattled Iraqi capital.