Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned Tuesday that any futureNATO airstrikes that kill civilians will be considered attacks against the Afghan people. The statement came three days after an airstrike killed 14 civilians in southern Afghanistan, according to Afghan...
BAKU, Azerbaijan — In a mostly empty Soviet-era building here on a recent morning, a 29-year-old woman pressed her eye against the scope of a sniper rifle, brown hair spilling over her shoulder, and took aim at virtual commandos darting between virtual trees. James Hill for The New YorkTimes...
The skepticism of many Pakistanis is rooted in deep distrust of the U.S., a desire to protect their nuclear program, impressions of world events and devotion to preachings of hard-line clerics....
A surge of outrage and grief jolted Pakistan last night after the discovery of the body of a journalist who had highlighted alleged links between al-Qa'ida and the country's military, two days after he went missing in Islamabad. It appears he had been tortured and beaten before being killed and his...
'Earthquake drunk' cases are on the rise, in which people experience the sensation of an aftershock, even when there is none. Experts say it is akin to the shakiness some feel after sea travel. By John M. Glionna, Los AngelesTimes...
CHICAGO — An admitted American terrorist who is the government's top witness in the trial of a Chicago businessman accused in the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks repeatedly lied to the FBI, a judge and even his wife as he cooperated in a plea deal to save his own life, defense attorneys said...
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's government on Tuesday named the members of a commission tasked with probing the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including how it come about that the al-Qaida chief was living in a Pakistani garrison city. Only on msnbc.com AP Updated 88 minutes ago 5/31/2011...
BELGRADE, Serbia — Former Bosnian Serbmilitary commander Ratko Mladic was placed in a U.N. detention unit Tuesday to await trial on genocide charges, 16 years after he was indicted in the killing of 8,000 Muslimmen and boys in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since WorldWar...