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President Obama plans to send another 4,000 troops to Afghanistan along with hundreds of civilian specialists in an effort to confront what he considers "the central challenge facing [that] country," senior administration officials said Thursday.

President Barack Obama says the US must have an "exit strategy" in Afghanistan, despite sending more troops there.

A UN human rights investigator, Richard Falk, is to question the legality of Israel's Gaza incursion in a new report.

The Iraq and Afghanistan wars are challenging the belief that the nation need only prepare to fight two major wars at once.

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden accused moderate Arab leaders of plotting with the West against Muslims and urged his followers to prepare for jihad (holy war), in a recording aired by Al Jazeera television.

Madagascar's opposition leader Andry Rajoelina emerged from hiding on Saturday to tell thousands of his supporters he was giving President Marc Ravalomanana four hours to step down.

Facing a historic economic crisis, two wars and countless other pressures, President Obama's hair appears to be going grayer by the day -- and hes only been on the job for 44 of them.

A car bomb exploded outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan and wounded three people Wednesday. The Taliban claimed ...

President Obama's planned announcement Friday to remove most U.S. combat troops from Iraq by August 2010 will free up more forces for the worsening fight in Afghanistan and help the Army end a policy that holds soldiers past enlistment periods, military officials and experts say.

North Korea said on Thursday it was ready for war with the South, just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was set to arrive in Seoul for talks on defusing the North's military threat.