Italian anti-terrorist police have arrested two Pakistanis suspected of helping to finance the Islamic militant group responsible for the attacks on Mumbai in November 2008 that killed 166 people. Police said in a statement on Saturday the men, identified using leads from Indian authorities and the Federal Bureau of ... More

A rocket attack near the luxury Serena Hotel in Kabul has injured four people, including two members of the Afghan security forces, a spokesman for Afghanistan's health ministry said Saturday. One rocket hit the wall of the five-star hotel in downtown Kabul at 6.15 p.m. (1345 GMT), Ahmad Farid Raaid, ... More

A suicide bomber killed 13 people, including three senior officials in Afghanistan’s southwest region; meanwhile, a suspected U.S. drone aircraft killed 10 Taliban militants in the neighboring Pakistan. In Afghanistan 35 people were also wounded in the attack in Farah City, capital of the Farah Province, said Police Chief ... More

Senior officials from six world powers said on Friday they were disappointed Iran had not accepted proposals intended to delay its potential to make nuclear bombs, and urged Tehran to reconsider. But the officials, from Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Russia and China, stopped short of specific discussion of ... More

President Barack Obama on Thursday said the United States and its partners were now discussing "consequences" in the form of toughened sanctions on Iran after its apparent rejection of a nuclear deal. Obama said he left the door open for Iran to accept international efforts to defuse the nuclear ... More

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a court building in Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, officials said, in the latest of a series of attacks on the northwestern Pakistan city. The city, near the Afghan border, has been targeted several times since the army began an offensive against the Taliban in ... More

Afghan President Hamid Karzai was sworn in for a second term on Thursday, vowing to combat corruption and reaching out to his political rivals under Western pressure to restore legitimacy. Karzai took the oath of office as the U.S.-led war stretches into a ninth year, leaving record numbers of soldiers and ... More

The World Health Organization said Thursday that checks on many of the 30 deaths recorded following mass pandemic flu vaccinations had so far ruled out a direct link to the vaccines. "Although some investigations are still ongoing, results of completed investigations reported to WHO have ruled out that the ... More

Suicides in the U.S. Army are headed to a new record this year but it remains unclear if repeated combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq are causing more soldiers to take their lives, a top general said on Tuesday. With 140 suspected cases reported among soldiers since the start of 2009, the number of suicides ... More

President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes the United States military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, can be closed next year, but he acknowledged for the first time that he will not meet his original January deadline. The U.S. leader also said Americans should not be "fearful" of the ... More

The United States and China agreed that Iran faced "consequences" if it resisted greater openness on its nuclear program, U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday after talks with China's Hu Jintao in Beijing. Obama told reporters in a joint address to reporters that he and Hu "agreed that ... More

American President Barack Obama on Monday called al-Qaeda the greatest threat to United States security, as Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah warned that the Taliban would overrun Afghanistan if international troops were to pull out. Obama, who was visiting Shanghai as part of a nine-day Asian tour, is nearing ... More

The United Nations opened its world food summit on Monday by saying that a climate change deal in Copenhagen next month is crucial to fighting global hunger as rising temperatures threaten farm output in poor countries. Government leaders and officials met in Rome for a three-day U.N. summit on how to help developing ... More

A U.S. grand jury indicted a Kuwaiti company on Monday for fraud and conspiracy for allegedly overcharging the U.S. Army on $8.5 billion worth of contracts to supply food to soldiers in Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan. The grand jury in Atlanta indicted logistics firm Public Warehousing Company, K.S.C. (PWC) on multiple charges of ... More

France has asked Switzerland for judicial assistance in an investigation into a nuclear physicist arrested in France over alleged links to al-Qaeda, the federal prosecutor's office said Saturday. "The federal prosecutor's office is in charge of this request for assistance from France," said spokesman ... More

United States President Barack Obama arrived in Singapore on Saturday ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum where he was set to meet Russia's president to secure backing to break the stand-off over Iran's nuclear ambitions, which Turkey also said it could help with. Obama will ... More

A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-filled car Saturday at a police checkpoint in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 10 people, officials said. "At least 11 people have been killed and 26 others wounded," Peshawar district administration chief Sahibzada Anis told AFP, ... More

Suicide car bombs tore through security offices in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 18 people and heavily damaging the Peshawar headquarters of the country's top intelligence agency. The first attack destroyed an office of Pakistan's main intelligence agency in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing at ... More

U.S. prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit to seize control of a New York City skyscraper they say is owned by companies illegally funneling money to the Iranian government, according to Friday news reports. The suit seeks to revoke the Alavi Foundation and the Assa Corporation's ownership of a 36-storey building at 650 ... More

Five men accused of the Sept. 11 attacks will be tried in a New York civilian court, attorney general Eric Holder said Friday adding the U.S. would press for maximum sentences including the death penalty. Five other inmates held at the Guantanamo Bay jail would face military commissions, Holder said, referring ... More