NAVALAIR STATION SIGONELLA, Italy — U.S Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Friday assailed people who have questioned the wisdom of the joint U.S.-NATO campaign against Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, saying "the critics have really been proven wrong." Completing an overseas trip, the defense secretary fiercely defended the Libyan operation as he got a new assessment from U.S. and NATO commanders on what steps are necessary to bring the mission to an end. "I have to tell you that at the time that...
Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has emerged as a champion of women's rights after jointly winning the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with two other women - fellow Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Yemen's Tawakkul Karman. Johnson-Sirleaf, the 72-year-old who became Africa's first elected female president...
President Hamid Karzai has said his government's failure to provide Afghans with security is its greatest failure. Speaking to the BBC 10 years after the Taliban were otherthrown, Mr Karzai said Nato and the...
Hundreds of people have marched through the streets of the Afghan capital Kabul, demanding the immediate withdrawal of international military forces ahead of the 10th anniversary of the US invasion. The peaceful...
Here is a timeline of key events in the UK's military involvement in Afghanistan, which has been continuing for 10 years: 2001 September 11 - Nearly 3,000 people are killed when al Qaidaterrorists hijack four passenger aircraft and crash them in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. October 7 -...
GENEVA ' Syria will shortly present the United Nations with a list of more than 1,100 people it says have been killed by 'terrorists' in ongoing unrest in the country, its deputy foreign minister said on Friday. "Syria is grappling with...
General who led Obama's 'surge' strategy says even now the military does not have the local knowledge to end the conflict Stanley McChrystal said the US and Nato were only 50% of the way to achieving their goals in Afghanistan. Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP...
Thirty-two bodies have been found in several locations in Mexico's eastern port city of Veracruz, the navy says. The discovery comes two weeks after 35 bodies were dumped on a busy road in Veracruz state in broad...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — With no warning, a few dozen students blocked a major avenue in central Athens, marching slowly up the middle of the street to make sure motorists couldn't get through. Tempers frayed, horns honked. A driver revved his engine, swerved suddenly and charged up the sidewalk,...
