• Liberians mourn UN worker killed in Afghanistan

    MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.

     
  • Click for Full Story Report: Leaked UK documents show Iraq war chaos

    LONDON (AP) — A British newspaper claims leaked government documents show plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq were drafted more than a year earlier — calling into question Tony Blair's public statements on the military buildup.

     
  • 5 Afghan border security guards killed in south

    KABUL (AP) — A roadside bomb killed five Afghan border security guards traveling on a heavily used road in southern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan on Sunday.

     
  • Click for Full Story A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US

    Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.

     
  • Click for Full Story Iraqi parliament seeks to end election crisis

    BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi lawmakers on Saturday sought a compromise in a dispute over an election law that was vetoed by a vice president, throwing national polls slated for January into question.

     
  • Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence

    KABUL (AP) — Khalid Khan stares through the dusty window pane, down across the rooftops of the capital, and wonders if they really know where he lives.

     
  • Click for Full Story 3 men blow themselves up in Pakistani Kashmir

    ISLAMABAD (AP) — Three suspected militants blew themselves up as police gave chase Saturday in the Pakistani part of disputed Kashmir, authorities said.

     
  • Click for Full Story Afghan police are weak link in security force

    KABUL (AP) — Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home.

     
  • Blast near aid office wounds 1 in NW Pakistan

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — An explosion struck the office of an aid organization in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, wounding a security guard, police said.

     
  • US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 842

    As of Friday, Nov. 18, 2009, at least 842 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EST.

     
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