SENIOR PAKISTAN TALIBAN CAPTURED IN AFGHANISTAN
By PATRICK QUINN In this Oct. 4, 2009 photo, Pakistani Taliban commander Latif Mehsud sits with fellows in Sararogha in south Waziristan in Pakistan. U.S. troops are holding the senior…
Central Asia
KERRY IN AFGHANISTAN FOR URGENT SECURITY TALKS
By MATTHEW LEE U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry leaves from Subang TUDM outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, after completing his trip to Malaysia after…
AFGHANISTAN PREPARING FOR MEETING OVER US DEAL
By PATRICK QUINN An International Security Assistance Force soldier stands guard near a C-130 transport aircraft at the Afghan Air Force Base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Afghanistan…
AFGHAN PRESIDENT SAYS US SECURITY DEAL NOT READY
By PATRICK QUINN and RAHIM FAIEZ Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Karzai says disagreements over…
AFGHAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FINISH REGISTRATION
By PATRICK QUINN and RAHIM FAIEZ Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother Abdul Qayyom Karzai registers his candidacy in next year’s presidential election at the independent election commission office in Kabul,…
AFGHAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FINISH REGISTRATION
By PATRICK QUINN and RAHIM FAIEZ Afghan men offer funeral prayers near the bodies of civilians killed in a NATO air strike, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul,…
US, INDIA SEEK CLOSER TIES AMID SOUTH ASIA TENSION
By JOSH LEDERMAN President Barack Obama shakes hands with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The president…
AFGHAN OFFICIAL, 2 NATO TROOPS DIE IN ATTACKS
By RAHIM FAIEZ A member of the Afghan security forces secures the area at the scene of an explosion with a destroyed police car behind, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept.…