AFGHANISTAN

The NSA has been planting surveillance software deep within hard drives made by top manufacturers, Kaspersky Lab says.

The civil nuclear agreement is being widely seen as a move to counter China's growing influence in the region.

Pakistan is one of three countries where polio is still endemic.

The rebels are getting closer to Damascus, and the regime is calling in more and more outside help — from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.

India's foreign secretary will soon visit capitals of SAARC countries, including Islamabad.

The A-10 was designed in the 1970s to kill Russian tanks. It never had to, but now it's being sent to Russia's doorstep.

A recent report described Middle Eastern countries as “heavily dependent on expatriate health care workers."

The booming legal marijuana industry is drawing military veterans from combat to cannabis — not to smoke it, but to protect it.

The GOP doesn't like Obama, and Democrats don't want war. Here's how the White House will try to get bipartisan support in Congress.

Obama sent a draft resolution Wednesday seeking legal authorization from Congress to use force against ISIS for three years.

The Authorization for Use of Military Force may shape U.S. antiterrorism policy for years. What does it really say?

The group that claimed to have hacked the U.S. Central Command and Taylor Swift has hit International Business Times.

The defense secretary nominee responded to questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Mullah Abdul Rauf was a former member of the Taliban who defected to become an ISIS recruiter in Afghanistan.

Mullah Abdul Rauf, who was transferred to Afghanistan in 2007 after being freed from Guantanamo Bay, had allegedly been recruiting for ISIS.

Former Australian soldier Hastings Fredrickson had pleaded guilty to three counts of using a carriage service to cause offence.

Leaders in Iran have signaled they may be ready to take a fair nuclear deal.

More than 22,000 undocumented Afghans flocked across the border at Torkham in January, more than twice the figure for the whole of 2014.

The A-10 was saved from cuts since it was useful to ground troops, but recent government data say it's the most dangerous.

U.S. soldiers who were actually in harm's way take a dim view of the broadcaster's fabricated tale of danger.

Ashton Carter was nominated to become Obama's fourth defense secretary after Chuck Hagel resigned under pressure last year.