DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces killed three militants in North Waziristan on Friday, their first reported foray for months in a region where America is calling for action against al-Qaida and the Taliban, intelligence officials said. North Waziristan is home to hundreds of fighters that U.S. officials say are fueling much [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former Pentagon official has been sentenced to three years in prison for espionage after being convicted of giving classified information to a Chinese spy. The sentence handed down Friday was significantly less than the 6 1/2 years sought by prosecutors for 62-year-old James Fondren of Annandale, a former Air Force [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United States has no designs on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons or “a single inch of Pakistani soil,” U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Pakistani military officers Friday, adding that fighting terrorists along the Afghan border is in Pakistan’s interest as well as Washington’s. “We have enemies in common along the border, but [...]

KABUL (AP) — The Afghan government banned a fertilizer chemical on Friday that was used in the devastating Oklahoma City bombing and in most of the homemade explosives that have killed and maimed hundreds of American soldiers here. NATO troops have seized tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in raids over the last five months in [...]

As of Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, at least 884 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is the same as the Defense Department’s tally, last updated Friday at 10 [...]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Nearly 90 professors at Tehran University have told Iran’s supreme leader that ongoing violence against protesters shows the weakness of the country’s leadership, a pro-reform Web site reported Monday, reflecting a growing willingness to risk careers and studies to challenge the ruling clerics. The current rumblings from universities highlight the evolution [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The suicide bomber who killed eight people inside a CIA base in Afghanistan claimed to have information about Osama bin Laden’s second-in-command, and was being recruited as a double agent to infiltrate al-Qaida, a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a foreign government official confirmed Monday. The bombing killed seven CIA employees [...]

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi government has released the leader of a militant Shiite group linked to the 2007 kidnapping of five Britons, a spokesman said Tuesday. Interior Ministry spokesman Alaa al-Taii said Qais al-Khazali was freed on Sunday, following his transfer several days earlier from U.S. to Iraqi custody. Al-Khazali is the head of [...]