A crisis in U.S.-Pakistan relations looked set to deepen Monday night after a House-Senate negotiating panel froze $700 million in aid until Pakistan gives assurances it is helping fight the spread of improvised explosive devices in the region.
Eric Linton
Dec 13, 2011
The deputy commander of the Pakistan Taliban, who have been waging a four-year war against the government in Islamabad, confirmed the two sides were in peace talks, a move that could further fray the U.S.-Pakistan relationship.
J.J. McGrath
Dec 10, 2011
The family of a retired FBI agent named Robert Levinson who has been missing since 2007 and thought to have been kidnapped in Iran has released a hostage video of an alive, but not well, Levinson begging for help.
Nadine DeNinno
Dec 09, 2011
A senior Pakistani military officer said a NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani troops on the border with Afghanistan last month was pre-planned, newspapers reported Friday, comments likely to fuel tension with the United States.
Eric Linton
Dec 09, 2011
Iran state television showed the first video footage of the RQ-170 Sentinel that supposedly belongs to the United States and was brought down ealier this week.
Daniel Tovrov
Dec 08, 2011
Al-Shabab, the Islamist rebel group in Somalia with al-Qaida ties, became the latest
Daniel Tovrov
Dec 08, 2011
Jon Huntsman, who continues to lag in national polls but has staked his campaign on a strong finish in New Hampshire, came out on Thursday with a seven-point plan to restore trust in Washington. He cast himself as the only Republican candidate capable of doing so.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 08, 2011
A Persian leopard that was long thought to have been extinct in Afghanistan was recently seen on images from camera traps in the country's central highlands.
Laura Matthews
Dec 07, 2011
The killings have prompted fears that sectarian violence between Shias and Sunni Muslims could erupt in Afghanistan.
Palash Ghosh
Dec 07, 2011
For most of her campaign, Michele Bachmann has made more headlines for her gaffes than for her platform, and her popularity has fallen as a result. But moving past the YouTube clips and headlines, what are the Minnesota congresswoman's political positions?
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 07, 2011
The unmanned U.S. drone Iran said Sunday it had captured was programmed to automatically return to base even if its data link was lost, one key reason that U.S. officials tell Reuters the drone likely malfunctioned and was not downed by Iranian electronic warfare.
Eric Linton
Dec 07, 2011
Twin blasts in Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif aimed at Afghanistan's minority Shiite Muslims killed nearly 60 people on Tuesday as they celebrated Ashura, one of their sect's holiest days, signaling, perhaps, a new sectarian turn in what was one of the war's deadliest attacks.
Elisha Maldonado
Dec 06, 2011
Karzai had just attended a summit conference in Germany where’s Afghanistan future and security were being discussed.
Palash Ghosh
Dec 06, 2011
Afghanistan has begun accepting applications to explore and produce gold and copper in four areas, the country's Ministry of Mines said Tuesday.
Mike Obel
Dec 06, 2011
A suicide attack killed dozens of Shi'ite Muslims at a crowded Kabul shrine on Tuesday, and four others died in a smaller blast in a key northern city, in the worst sectarian violence Afghanistan has seen since the fall of the Taliban.
Consella Lee
Dec 06, 2011
This incident has occurred at a time when Iran is trying to contain foreign outrage over the storming of the British embassy, last week.
Bhaskar Prasad
Dec 06, 2011
The United States, India and Japan will hold their first trilateral meeting this month as Washington pushes ahead with its pivot toward Asia, where China's growing power has raised concern.
Raymond Ronamai
Dec 06, 2011
It was a long time ago -- 70 years ago today -- but it's an event no one should forget: the start of the Battle of Moscow, 1941-42, during World War II. Roughly 1 million heroic Russians lost their lives in the bloodiest land battle in human history -- a battle that marked the beginning of the end for Adolph Hitler and for Nazi Germany.
Joseph Lazzaro
Dec 05, 2011
The United States, India and Japan will hold their first trilateral meeting this month as Washington pushes ahead with its pivot toward Asia, where China's growing power has raised concern.
Chun He
Dec 05, 2011
Sooner or later, income taxes on upper-income groups in the United States, including the uber-rich, have to be raised to balance the federal budget, and to restore tax fairness.
Joseph Lazzaro
Dec 05, 2011
The Senate decides not to clarify whether the government can arrest and indefinitely hold American citizens captured on U.S. soil, leaving a key debate about expanded presidential powers during the war on terror up to the president and the courts.
Jeremy White
Dec 05, 2011
He also suggested Kabul would need financial and other types of support for at least a decade beyond the withdrawal of foreign troops.
Palash Ghosh
Dec 05, 2011
