Sesame Street has made its way to Afghanistan. Television executives in the country are hoping that the show -- which enjoys popularity around the world -- will help educate its young population.
Bush is scheduled to tour through Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia, where he is planning to raise awareness about AIDS, cervical and breast cancers.
It is believed that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of women in Afghanistan are languishing in jails over so-called ‘moral crimes.’
In a rare peaceful transition of presidential power, Kyrgyzstan inaugurated a new president Thursday, marking the first time the former Soviet Central Asian nation chose a successor through votes at the ballot box, not the streets.
Pakistan, enraged by a NATO cross-border attack that killed 24 soldiers, could end support for the U.S.-led war on militancy if its sovereignty is violated again, the foreign minister said, warning enough is enough.
Herman Cain should do himself and the Republican Party a favor and drop out of the presidential race -- but not for the reasons you think.
The father was beaten, and then all members of the family (including all three daughters) had acid poured on them.
“Of course it’s the final word. Pakistan is not attending,” a spokesman for the Pakistani foreign ministry said.
For most of the Republican nomination race thus far, Jon Huntsman has been considered little more than a side note. But while his national poll numbers remain very low, he is gaining support in New Hampshire. What are his positions?
Prince Harry of Wales' time in the United States has ended. The member of the British Royal Family and active duty member of the British Navy has finished his training stint in Arizona and is headed home to England.
Ministers from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan met in Kabul to strengthen cooperation against the opium trade. More than 90 percent of the world's opium comes from Afghanistan, with most of it transiting through Iran and Pakistan.
Jack Daniels launched “Operation Ride Home” to unite soldiers with their loved ones this holiday season.
Pakistan ratcheted up pressure on NATO on Monday over a cross-border attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at the weekend, threatening to drastically reduce cooperation on peace efforts in Afghanistan.
Pakistan and the United States may be a little too dependent on each other to allow the death of two dozen Pakistani soldiers, in airstrikes by NATO forces on Saturday, to cause a definitive rupture.
Pakistan on Sunday buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air raid that has pushed a crisis in already-strained relations with the United States toward rupture.
The already tenuous relationship between Pakistan and the United States has been plunged into another crisis, following NATO strikes on two military outposts in northwest Pakistan, on Saturday. U.S. President Barack Obama has vowed a full investigation into the attack that has allegedly killed 28 Pakistani troops.
NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations deeper into crisis.
I had just been chatting, over a ridiculously expensive turkey sandwich that Monday (right before Thanksgiving, what was I thinking?), about the declining fortunes of the once-great American Empire. But enough, for the moment, about me, first let's see what Columbia's Herbert J. Gans, emeritus professor of sociology, had to say about superfluous jobs in his recent New York Times Op-Ed piece--and whether what he astutely observed could lead, within the century, to the breakup of th...
Pakistan forces alleged Nato helicopters attacked a Pakistani military checkpoint near Afghanistan border killing at least 25 soldiers and injuring 14 others.
NATO helicopters attacked a military checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 25 troops and prompting Pakistan to shut the vital supply route for NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said.
Coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons is closing its Kandahar outlet after five years in the war zone, shuttering its store on a Canadian military base as the country's troops leave Afghanistan.
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, has been accused of flip-flopping on a number of issues. So what are his political positions?
