AFGHANISTAN

Migrants fleeing war, poverty and repression in the Middle East and Africa are increasingly turning to the Balkans as a land route to western Europe.

President Ashraf Ghani has reached out to Pakistan and China during the first seven months of his tenure.

The former four-star general will have to pay a higher fine than expected for his involvement in leaking military secrets to his lover.

Speaker Boehner says House committees will wait for results of the administration review.

President Obama apologized Thursday for the accidental killing of two innocent hostages of al Qaeda during a counterterrorism operation in January.

The former four-star general and CIA chief had pleaded guilty to leaking classified military intelligence to his biographer and mistress.

The American A-10 and Romania's Soviet-built MiG-21 jet were built to fight each other. Now they're training together to fend off Russians.

India seized 200 kg of heroin from Pakistani drug traffickers aboard a boat on the Arabian sea, a defense official said on Tuesday, in a $15 million haul that is one of the country's largest and comes as narcotic flows escalate from Afghanistan.

The crackdown on people smugglers advocated by various European officials will be difficult to implement.

Visiting Germany, Poland and Estonia, Bush will seek to bolster his foreign policy credentials.

Two groups of captives appear to have been killed in the video released by the Islamic State group Sunday.

A United Nations sponsored report has found that Afghanistan government officials who headed oversight of the police suppressed complaints of corruption against the force.

The Islamic State group's claim of responsibility has not been confirmed, but, if true, the blasts would be the first attacks carried out by ISIS in Afghanistan.

The Algeria-based group, led by a former al Qaeda commander, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing outside a UN peacekeeping mission camp Friday.

Charlie Linville lost his leg during an explosion while serving in Afghanistan in 2011.

Ibrahim al-Rubaysh was a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay and a veteran militant from his time in Afghanistan.

It's not 2008 anymore: The economy, Iraq, becoming a grandmother and getting older might benefit Clinton's 2016 campaign.

A Taliban spokesman said in a statement that the suicide car bomb attack was meant to strike U.S. troops.

The Afghan opened fire on U.S. troops after a meeting between a U.S. official and local leaders in eastern Afghanistan.

The Iranian border guards were allegedly killed in an attack by Pakistan-based militants in the restive Sistan-Baluchistan province.

In a descriptive hagiography, Taliban claimed that Mullah Omar, who has not been seen in public since 2001, is still actively leading the group.