Enemy ambush kills U.S. soldier
A U.S. Army Special Forces soldier caught in a firefight in eastern Afghanistan on Friday became the first American serviceman killed by hostile fire in the three-month war against terrorism,...
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U.S. bomb killed daughter, but dad glad Taliban is gone
Like many little girls her age, Nadila Basir, 5, loved to play at being a grown-up. When her friends came over, she would pull out her mother's lipstick and high-heeled...
Muslim holiday filled with rising hope
By some standards it was a meager meal: a chicken, to be divided 13 ways, a big mound of pure white rice and a bag of tiny bananas. But for...
Stirring at U.S. Embassy raises hopes of Afghans
The derelict U.S. Embassy building bears the bullet and shrapnel scars from earlier rounds of fighting in the Afghan civil war. Buildings in the compound were gutted and burned by...
Talks on Afghan government advance
Rival Afghan leaders worked into the night Saturday to set up a power-sharing government in Afghanistan as U.S. warplanes and Pashtun ground fighters intensified attacks on Kandahar, the last stronghold...
Anti-Taliban forces near Kandahar
Opposition forces advanced toward the outskirts of Kandahar, the Taliban regime's last foothold in Afghanistan, with the help of a flurry of U.S. air strikes on Taliban troop concentrations around...
British cite videotape tying bin Laden to terror attacks
Osama bin Laden all but admits masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States in a new video circulating clandestinely among his supporters in the Middle East, according to...
Shrewd Musharraf maintains his grip
That Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf feels secure enough to leave his country for a week is testimony to the growing confidence of a man who has emerged as one of...
U.S. uses leaflets to counter allegations
In its escalating war of words with the Taliban, the U.S. Embassy here is distributing a leaflet to Pakistani newspapers titled "Catalogue of Lies" in a bid to refute some...
Pakistan bans briefings by Taliban envoy
Over the past month, one of the Taliban's most potent weapons in its war with the United States has been the regular news briefings by its ambassador to Pakistan on...