Afghan security forces engaged in a firefight with Taliban fighters in the capital city of Kabul Wednesday, blowing up a home and reportedly killing two militants and a woman and child inside. Two analysts assess the security situation in Afghanistan.
Pakistan's National Assembly elected Yousaf Raza Gilani, a top official in slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's party, as prime minister Monday. Gilani then ordered the release of dozens of judges detained by President Pervez Musharraf.
Two bombings killed at least 73 people and wounded scores more in separate blasts in Baghdad pet bazaars Friday, ending a relative lull in violence in the Iraqi capital. Stephen Farrell, a New York Times correspondent in Baghdad, provides an…
Bombs attached to two women killed at least 60 people and wounded scores more in separate blasts Friday morning on Baghdad pet bazaars, ending a relative lull in violence in the Iraqi capital.
Two truck bombs exploded in Algiers, Algeria, Tuesday, causing heavy damage to U.N. offices and killing more than 31. A branch of terror group al-Qaida claimed responsibility. Experts assess what the attacks mean for Algeria, Northern Africa and the West.
The North African wing of al-Qaida is suspected of detonating twin car bombs that killed as many as 67 people near U.N. buildings in the Algerian capital Tuesday.
This year has been the most violent in Afghanistan since the Taliban fell, with more than 130 suicide bombings and more than 2,600 dead. U.S. Gen. Dan McNeill, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, discusses efforts to combat Taliban…
Former CIA Director George Tenet's new memoir has drawn criticism from administration officials over his account of events leading up to the Iraq war. Jim Lehrer talks with Tenet about his memoir and its critics.
A suicide attack that killed five outside a mall Monday prompted the Israeli government to order new strikes against the leaders of the militant group Islamic Jihad and raised the specter of increased violence in the Middle Eastern nation.
A suicide car bomb near a U.S. military base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed three Iraqis Monday and assassins shot and killed a senior Interior Ministry official, in the latest attack on officials in the interim Iraqi…
