Iran has recovered data from the unmanned American drone that crashed near the Afghan border last year, and is using the information to reverse-engineer its own spy plane, the Islamic Republic announced on Sunday.
Afghanistan and the United States agreed Sunday on a draft of a long-awaited deal that will define the scope and nature of a U.S. presence in the country for up to a decade after the pullout of most NATO combat troops in 2014.
India -which criticized the sanctions by the U.S., United Nations and European Union - recently became Iran's top oil buyer.
The military is investigating the situation surrounding the wife of a Fort Carson, Colo. soldier who learned of her husband's death via Facebook.
All passengers are believed to be American nationals.
Jennifer Lynn Lopez was formally charged Thursday for murdering Brittany Killgore, a Marine's wife. Investigators remained mum on the connection between the two.
As Afghanistan troop withdrawals are scheduled for 2014, Australia has renewed its pledge to adhere to NATO plans. But an abrupt U-turn this week indicates the political difficulties of adhering to an international commitment.
In an effort to expand its campaign of covert drone strikes in Yemen, the Central Intelligence Agency has asked for the authority to target suspected terrorists without needing to establish their identity first.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday called for an accelerated and full transition of security responsibilities to Afghan forces following the release of photos of U.S. soldiers posing with the corpses of Afghan insurgents.
One of the three men who had plotted to blow up the New York City subway system in September of 2009 appeared in Brooklyn Federal Court Tuesday to testify in the trial of co-conspirator Adis Medunjanin.
It's either an amusing way to follow the 2012 presidential campaign, or the death rattle for meaningful political discourse in America.
Investigators in San Diego County have possibly found the body of missing Marine wife Brittany Killgore. They have arrested a second suspect in the case.
The Department of Defense on Wednesday said that the published photographs of U.S. troops posing with the maimed body parts of Afghan insurgents can provoke the enemy to react with violence against U.S. and Afghanistan service members.
The United States, the largest contributor in terms of manpower and money by far, is expected to ask alliance members to shoulder a quarter of the costs of supporting Afghan forces.
Violence, acid attacks and now poisoning. Extremists will try anything to keep girls from seeking an education in Afghanistan.
The pullout will see the 1,500-strong Australian contingent leave Afghanistan by the end of 2013, a year earlier than planned, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Tuesday.
Australia is planning to pull out most of its troops by 2013, a year earlier than planned. Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced Tuesday that the mission in Afghanistan was nearly completed and most of its troops would be back home by 2013, smh.com reported.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that Sunday's coordinated Taliban attack on Kabul showed a failure by Afghan intelligence and especially by NATO, while Washington signaled the Haqqani group of militants was responsible.
Lord Nazir Ahmed was suspended from the Labour party Monday after reports surfaced that the Muslim life peer offered a bounty for the capture of President Obama and former president George W. Bush.
Shares of AOL, the No. 5 website, fell 1 percent in late Monday trading even after the troubled company won its first Pulitzer Prize.
The prison sentence of would-be shoe bomber Saajid Badat was reduced by two years after he agreed to testify against Adis Medunjanin, one of the men who planned on bombing the New York City subway in 2009.
Karzai went on to praise Afghan forces for handling the situation, saying they had proved themselves capable of defending their country.