Haqqani Network

Amid partisan questioning from both sides in former Sen. Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing last week, a major opportunity was lost. Hagel's fellow Republicans grilled the Defense secretary nominee on past statements about Israel and his opposition to...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A female suicide bomber struck near Kabul’s international airport early Tuesday, killing about 12 people, nine of them believed to be foreigners, Afghan police said....

Up to 12 people were killed when a female suicide bomber rammed a car into a vanload of foreign aviation workers near Kabul's international airport, Afghan police said....

Three NATO troops were killed by an improvised explosive device in eastern Afghanistan, the Western military said....

A top commander of the Haqqani network, a group responsible for numerous deadly attacks on Western and Afghan forces in Afghanistan, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan region of Pakistan last week, according to Afghanistan's main...

A suicide attacker set off a powerful explosion near NATO headquarters in one of the most heavily secured districts of Kabul, killing at least six civilians, some of them street children....

Pakistani cricket legend Imran Khan failed to take his people power campaign to South Waziristan for an anti-drone rally....

MIANWALI, Pakistan — Led by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, a large caravan of demonstrators, including more than 30 U.S. anti-war activists, embarked on a two-day journey Saturday to Pakistan’s volatile tribal areas to rally against...

Any change in Pakistan’s caustic relationship with the U.S. in the next four years is likely to be viewed through the prism of Afghanistan and Pakistan’s tribal region -- two war-ravaged places where both Washington and Islamabad desperately...

Civilian casualties in the Afghan war fell by 15% in the first half of this year compared with the same period a year ago, the first such decline in five years, the United Nations said....

A powerful remote-controlled bomb ripped through a car carrying a district governor in eastern Afghanistan, killing him and three bodyguards, Afghan officials said, in the latest example of government officials and community leaders being targeted for...

Two explosions in eastern Afghanistan, one targeting an American convoy, killed three U.S. troops, an Afghan interpreter and at least 24 other Afghans on Wednesday, defying what the military had described as a trend of diminishing violence this year....