Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan’s top Taleban commander and the country’s most wanted man, is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike, a senior Pakistani official has said. “He has most likely been killed in the strike, but we are still...

Taliban militants hijacked a bus in southern Afghanistan last week and killed as many as 40 passengers, authorities said, although only six beheaded bodies were recovered today.

For those who savor historical irony, the Soviet Empire collapsed in the years 1989-1991 because of an implosion of its economy brought on by a ruinous arms race with the United States and the heavy costs of occupying Afghanistan.Seventeen years later...

A warrior prince! Cry God for Harry, England (or maybe Wales) and St George! With the pictures of Prince Harry on front-line combat duty in Afghanistan filling acres of newsprint, something deep and long-stifled in the British psyche has stirred.