AFGHANISTAN

Unknown computer hackers shut down al-Qaeda's web communications, interrupting the dreaded terrorist group's online distribution of videos and messages.

On Wednesday, a day before his final one at the Pentagon, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates issued a statement of farewell, thanking all U.S. Armed Forces.

President Obama scolded lawmakers Wednesday for failing to reach a budget deal, and used his daughters as an example of how to handle pressure and deadlines.

The United States will keep applying the utmost pressure on al-Qaeda, even after its former leader Osama bin Laden was removed, according to comments made by U.S. President Barack Obama during a White House press conference.

Two French journalists who were kidnapped in Afghanistan eighteen months ago have been freed, according to a statement from the Elysee palace in Paris.

The recent research project Costs of War find the estimated cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan could be $3.7 to $4.4 trillion,

Mostly foreign government representative and western journalists are said to have been the customers of the Kabul luxury hotel attacked by a Taliban squad late night on Tuesday.

Fighters armed with bombs and small arms attacked Kabul's InterContinental Hotel , where they fought Tuesday with Afghan security forces. Here's a look at the particulars of that hotel.

Afghan police said the Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul a popular hotel for Westerners in Afghanistan was attacked by suicide bombers.

Iran test-launched a spate of new missiles that can hit Israel and US installations in the Middle East

In a major foreign policy address in New York on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty accused the Obama administration of failing to pursue American interests during the Arab Spring and of wavering on Iran.

Without telling his government, the head of Afghanistan's central bank has left the country and taken up residence in the US.

The Pakistani Taliban has threatened to carry out ten new terror attacks in the U.S. and Europe in revenge for the murder of Osama bin Laden by American commandos last month.

After a diplomatic meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron in London, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that Beijing supports a political resolution to the conflict in Libya.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were spotted at Wimbledon.

At her first military engagement as the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton honored Irish guards who served in Afghanistan, on Saturday.

Dozens of people, including women, children and the elderly, have been killed in an unprecedented car bomb attack on an Afghanistan hospital.

Obama’s troop withdrawal plan from Afghanistan has stirred California lawmakers' criticism with both parties of Golden State congressional delegation responding strongly.

With President Obama's announcement that America will begin withdrawing from Afghanistan, the International Business Times reviews a book which argues that the Afghan-Pakistani border is the vanishing point for the American empire.

President Obama's decision to sharply reduce troop levels in Afghanistan acknowledged how much the war is costing the U.S.

Navy SEALs film to hit theaters, probably in early 2012.