AFGHANISTAN

Mitt Romney is poised for a big win at the New Hampshire 2012 primary. But if he takes the Republican nomination from Ron Paul, Paul's supporters won't be toeing the party line. Numerous voters and supporters are planning on writing in Paul's name on the ballot in November if he fails to secure the GOP nomination.

It is unclear who the target for this attack might have been and no group has yet claimed responsibility for it.

Amir Mirzai Hekmati, an American of Iranian descent, “confessed” to espionage before the court in Teheran.

The split goes all the way back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in the year 632 and it had to do with succession.

An American man, who was arrested last month with charges of working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has been sentenced to death by an Iranian court.

When U.S. Army Cpl. Jesse Thorsen delivered a speech at Ron Paul's caucus night rally in Iowa on Tuesday, he never expected to become a pseudo-symbol. By the time he finished speaking, the 28-year-old would come to embody a breed of supporter seemingly unique to the Ron Paul universe: The War-Weary Veteran.

Army officials finally conceded that Private Danny Chen, a 19-year-old Chinese American, was subject to repeated cases of abuse by fellow service members.

Travel and tourism are among the world’s leading economic forces and each journey we take makes a statement about our priorities and commitment to change.

President Barack Obama revealed that the United States will be sending more troops to the Asia-Pacific, a move that China was quick to criticize on Friday.

U.S. Army Cpl. Jesse Thorsen took the stage at Ron Paul's caucus night rally in Iowa on Tuesday with a few things on his mind. By the time he finished speaking, the 28-year-old would come to embody a breed of supporter seemingly unique to the Ron Paul universe: The War-Weary Veteran.

After more than four months in captivity, the Pakistani Taliban on Thursday released 17 teenage boys after they mistakenly crossed the Afghan border in September, according to a senior Pakistani government official.

President Barack Obama unveiled a defense strategy on Thursday that calls for greater U.S. military presence in Asia and envisions cutting troops in Europe as the Pentagon seeks to reduce spending by nearly half a trillion dollars after a decade of war.

The Obama administration will unveil a more realistic vision for the military Thursday, with plans to cut tens of thousands of ground troops and invest more in air and sea power at a time of fiscal restraint, officials familiar with the plans said Wednesday.

The United States is debating whether to transfer Mohammed Fazl, a senior Taliban official suspected of various human rights violations, into Afghan custody, in an effort to improve relations with the country

Lt. Col. Karl Trenker, a U.S. Marine veteran shot several times by a Craigslist buyer on Dec. 21, had to uses his fingers to plug his bullet wounds. Trenker said he knew he got shot, but what he didn't know was how many times.

U.S. has withdrawn its media advisers from Afghanistan’s Media center. In an unexpected move U.S embassy in Kabul announced in their website about the withdrawal of it s personnel from the media centre. America was funding and supporting Afgan’s Government Media and information centre (GMIC) for past four years. Embassy said that “the United States is reassessing and reviewing its relationship with the Afghan Government Media Information Center, and thought it appropriate to withdraw U.S. pers...

Afghanistan will accept a Taliban liaison office in Qatar to jumpstart peace negotiations on condition that no foreign power can involve itself in the process without its consent, the government peace council said Tuesday.

In what will be the Afghanistan's first international project in a decade, officials in Kabul approved an oil exploration deal with China's state-owned National Petroleum Corporation (CNCP).

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon received a nice Christmas present when the military arrested Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, a top lieutenant in the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel. Will it lead to the arrest of Shorty Guzman?

At least 39 people are reported dead in Nigeria after a series of church bombings during holiday services and one suicide bomber attack by Muslim extremists left a horrifying mark on Christmas Day. As world leaders condemn the attacks, Nigerians ask why President Jonathon failed to prevent them, with some youths rioting and setting up burning barricades in the street.

Christopher Sullivan, a California soldier recovering from injuries suffered during a suicide attack in Afghanistan, has been shot, while at his homecoming party, late on Friday.