WASHINGTON — The United States is increasingly relying on three transit routes snaking through Central Asia, Russia and the Caucuses, to ship non-military supplies and fuel into Afghanistan as the deteriorating relationship between Washington and Pakistan closes off border crossings, according to a Senate report obtained by The Associated Press. Iraq news Military News Military [...]

Is any of the dark, undeniable reality of life under Castro mentioned in a single caption of the thousands of photographs offered by the AP? Not once. Castro, they repeat, is a “revolutionary hero.” Read more: Mussolini, Barbara Demick, Che Guevara, Hitler, Fidel Castro, Associated Press, Mao, Pinochet, Cuba, Syria, Dictators, North Korea, Equatorial Guinea, [...]

By LARA JAKES, Associated Press BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber blew himself up inside Baghdad’s largest Sunni mosque Sunday night, killing 29 people d… Read more: Baghdad Suicide Bomber, Iraq Suicide Bombing, Iraq Bomb, Iraq Violence, Iraq Suicide Bomb, Baghdad, Iraq, World News Iraq news Military News Military Breaking News Military Family News Veterans News

Some unusual graffiti has been revealed on the walls of a U.S. Marines Battalion Command Headquarters in Afghanistan. As the Associated Press note… Read more: Graffiti, u.s. Marines Afghanistan, Taliban, u.s. Marines, Taliban Graffiti, Afghanistan, Afghan War, Afghanistan War, World News

DEB RIECHMANN and MIRWAIS KHAN, Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — Two suicide bombers and militants armed with heavy weapons launched twin att… Read more: Afghanistan, Afghanistan Bombing, Uruzgan Attack, Afghanistan Attack, Uruzgan, Afghanistan War, World News

WASHINGTON — Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has put forward a baseline number of troops that the president must announce he will pull out of Afghanistan, saying that anything less would break Obama’s promise of a “significant” drawdown. “In my judgment, a minimum of 15,000 reduction in troops would be needed for [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban denied a report in the Afghan press that the insurgent group’s leader had been killed in neighboring Pakistan, saying Monday that Mullah Mohammad Omar is alive and in Afghanistan. “This is absolutely wrong. It’s only propaganda and we completely deny these rumors,” Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press [...]

The Bush administration would have used the same strategy to kill terrorist Osama bin Laden had those circumstances arisen years ago, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Amid a burst of fireworks and a haze of smoke, a burly showman in a white sequined suit and gold lame cape appears with a flourish. Over the next 45 minutes, he appears to make a Pyongyang bus levitate and wriggles free from a box sent crashing to the stage [...]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is likely to name seasoned diplomat Ryan Crocker as the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, several sources told The Associated Press on Tuesday, part of a far-reaching turnover of the nation’s top leadership of the Afghanistan war as Obama prepares to begin bringing forces home this summer. The move would [...]