AFGHANISTAN

Viktor Bout was busted in a sting operation attempting to sell weapons to a Colombian rebel group, FARC.

Suspected suicide attackers launched an assault near a base used by NATO-led forces in the western Afghan province of Herat Thursday, authorities said, and gunfire was still being heard although there was no immediate word on casualties.

Condoleezza Rice book No Higher Honor released on Nov. 1.

U.S. Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs exploited a lawless platoon culture when he directed plans to execute innocent Afghanistani civilians and disguise the killings as combat engagements, prosecutors charged at the start of Gibbs' court martial.

Dorothy Rodham, mother of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, died Tuesday, shortly after midnight at the age of 92.

A car bomb explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killed five people Monday, including three United Nations employees near the offices of the UN refugee agency.

At least 12 Americans were killed in Kabul on Saturday when a Taliban suicide bomber unleashed the deadliest attack on U.S. armed forces since the shooting down of a helicopter in August that killed 30 Americans. More American blood sacrifice in a thankless beneficiary country...

A suicide car bomber on Saturday killed 13 troops and civilian employees of the NATO-led force in Kabul, including Americans and a Canadian, in the deadliest single ground attack against the coalition in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.

A suicide car bomber killed 13 foreign troops in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, the deadliest single ground attack in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.

A U.S. drone strike Thursday killed five commanders of a powerful Pakistani Taliban faction that attacks Western forces in Afghanistan, one of the group's leaders told Reuters.

He warned that the US and other western nations will likely face consequences for their support of Libyan rebels who toppled Gadhafi.

Pakistan has strongly denied the BBC’s report.

When Glenn Close sees a good part she goes after it -- even if it takes decades.

Wikileaks is unable to collect donations through normal channels and shuts down to deal with its finances.

While the humanitarian tragedy arising from the quake will not occupy the hearts, minds and bodies of the local population – the longer-term struggle between Kurds and Turks will likely not abate.

President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops (by the end of 2011), in the briefing room of the White House, on Oct. 21. He further said that the United States would fulfill its promise of pulling troops out of Iraq.

When Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril announced Moammar Gadhafi's death Thursday, he began with the words: We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. That must have made many in Libya and in the U.S. feel very good: it never hurts to be reminded that justice exists.

The Kalash community -- primarily residing in the Bumboret Kalash valley of northwestern Pakistan and said to be descendants of Alexander the Great's army -- says it is under increasing pressure to convert to Islam.

In a blunt message to Pakistan, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on Friday, demanded greater cooperation to help squeeze the Haqqani network responsible for attacks in Afghanistan, saying Islamabad could not keep snakes in its backyard to strike its neighbours.

President Barack Obama said Friday that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year.

Clinton nonetheless assured Islamabad of the U.S.’ long-term support.