AFGHANISTAN

Sarah Merkle says Maryland's gun control legislation won't stop mass shootings -- and 2.3 million people are listening.

An Illinois woman killed in Afghanistan Saturday is the first U.S. diplomat to die in the line of duty since Benghazi.

Six Americans and an Afghan doctor were killed in Afghanistan on Friday during two separate attacks.

There are still millions of unexploded landmines from historical wars all over the world, the U.N. says.

Only about 768,000 people in Pakistan –- about 0.57 percent of the population -– paid any income tax last year.

A NATO air strike killed four Afghan policemen and two civilians in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province, officials said Thursday.

Suicide bombers dressed as Afghan soldiers attacked a courthouse in the western Afghan city of Farah Wednesday.

A new survey finds that Pakistani youth are cynical and conservative; they would prefer military rule or Shariah law over democracy.

At least seven people were killed and several others were injured when a mob of militants attacked a power station in Pakistan.

Drug abuse, including heroin, is sweeping across Punjab, India.

Syria's conflict is worsening every day, and the West can help. But U.S. interventions and weapons shipments have a history of backfiring.

Hundreds of thousands of Pakistani children are at risk for contracting polio after the Taliban threatened local health workers.

Over the past year, a number of mosques have been attacked, vandalized and defaced.

U.S. officials are likely eager to squelch the general perception that Washington wants to heavily influence political policy in Pakistan.

Samsung will initially ship 10 million Galaxy S4 units and as many as 70 percent will be powered by the Snapdragon 600 processor.

John Kerry is just one in a long line of high-profile officials to make an unannounced visit to Afghanistan during the war.

The U.S. officially handed over the last detention facility to the Afghan government in a transfer ceremony Monday.

Rapper Gucci Mane, 33, is wanted by Atlanta police after allegedly beating a fan over the head with a champagne bottle in a downtown nightclub.

The global cost of natural disasters has tripled over the past three decades, but global warming is not the main culprit.

The identities of seven Marines who were killed in a military accident Monday in Nevada have been released.

Prince Harry was spotted in London with model Cressida Bonas last weekend.