AFGHANISTAN

The two Al Qaeda leaders' relationship goes back over 30 years.

A look into the life of the new head of Al Qaeda and FBI's most wanted man.

Hundreds of armed militants from Afghanistan crossed the border into Pakistan and attacked a village and security forces in the northwest tribal area, according to Pakistani officials.

Osama bin Laden's long-time lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri has taken over as the new Al Qaeda chief after the killing of the group's founder and leader, Osama Bin Laden, an Islamist website reported on Thursday.

Fazle-ur-Rahman Khalil, a paramilitary leader and bin-Laden associate, is living in Islamabad

Afghanistan is the most dangerous country in the world for women, according to a survey of gender experts by TrustLaw, a legal news service run by The Thomson-Reuters Foundation

Some parts of this world are utterly dangerous to be born female. According to a poll, Afghanistan, Congo and Pakistan are the world's most dangerous countries for women, followed by India and Somalia.

Some parts of this world are utterly dangerous to be born female. According to a poll, Afghanistan, Congo and Pakistan are the world's most dangerous countries for women, followed by India and Somalia.

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has sought permission to visit Syrian refugees in southern Turkey where thousands of people have taken shelter after fleeing a crackdown in their homeland, a Turkish diplomatic source said.

At least ten, perhaps more, people were killed in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan by a suspected U.S. drone missile strike, according to Dawn, an English language Pakistani daily newspaper.

The Obama administration is leading a global effort to establish shadow Internet and cellphone systems to help dissidents undermine authoritarian governments, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

Amidst warnings from the United Nations that civilian deaths in Afghanistan are skyrocketing, a Taliban bomb killed sixteen members from one family.

The man who allegedly masterminded the bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998 has reportedly been killed in Somalia.

In an effort to compensate distraught families, the Canadian government has paid out over $1 million to Afghan civilians. Will the US follow suit?

Europe's reluctance to commit resources to NATO is endangering the global alliance, outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in the final policy speech of his tenure.

Robert M.Gates, U.S Defense Secretary slammed NATO nations for failing to meet their commitments in Afghanistan.

CIA director Leon Panetta said Thursday that American troops will likely remain in Iraq beyond a 2011 deadline and parried questions about Afghanistan during his confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense today.

The Taliban is speculated to be behind the attack which killed a government official, the groom and seven more.

Though Memorial Day was the Monday of last week, soldiers returning from duty at Afghanistan yesterday felt quite unwelcome due to $2800 of unexpected extra baggage fees by Delta Air Lines on their flight to Atlanta from Baltimore.

Afghanistan will sink into a financial crisis in 2014, when foreign troops finally withdraw from the war-torn country, warned some top U.S. Democrats who are members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

A report by the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee questioned the success of foreign assistance in Afghanistan, detailing the extent to which the nation has become reliant on aid dollars to sustain its still-tenuous infrastructure while suggesting that America will need to continue financially supporting the country for years to come.