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Stanley McChrystal, and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry. The congressional delegation comes a week before President Barack Obama is expected to announce his strategy for Afghanistan and possible troop increases. Obama’s announcement likely will commence an intense and divisive congressional...

President Barack Obama plans to announce a redrawn battle plan for Afghanistan, including what the military says could be a roughly 50 percent increase in U.S. forces, in a national address Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy. (AP Photo/Musadeq...

Gillani told a press conference in Islamabad on Thursday that the troop surge could force Taliban militants to infiltrate into Pakistani southwestern province of Balochistan that borders Helmand. "Our only concern is that when US sends more troops to Afghanistan's...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai reached out to the Taliban on Friday, part of a call for reconciliation that the palace says will be the main focus of his second term that began last week. Speaking to reporters outside his palace...

When the Independent Election Commission announced that Hamid Karzai would be president for another five years, local and international powers began to demand that the newly re-elected president clamp down on the corruption that had spread like a virus throughout...

President Mahinda Rajapaksa is dedicated to bring peace and prosperity to Sri Lanka...At the same time he was dedicated to develop the country; President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga expressed his views joining in “Ayubovan Sri Lanka” which was telecast on Prime...

Supreme Global Service Solutions said last night that the helicopter had been contracted "to fly a cargo mission" in support of Nato and had gone missing in a mountainous region of Afghanistan on Monday. Supreme provides food and logistics services...

Thursday, the 10th such incident in two months. The remote-controlled device was planted near a school and a power pylon in the congested Rasheedabad area. It went off when station house officer Riaz-ul Islam, accompanied by his police guard, was...

The identity of the informer is being held due to security reasons, said a Thursday statement by the Pakistani military, which also confirmed Shah Mehsud's arrest. Islamabad started offering a reward for information leading to the capture, "dead or alive",...

A key anti-Taliban leader in northwest Pakistan was assassinated and three others wounded in a bomb attack on Friday after they said Eid prayers, officials said. Shahpoor Khan led a tribal militia against Taliban insurgents in the Mohmand district of...