A man armed with a pistol stands near injured blast victims and dead bodies at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Quetta Photo: AFP Volunteers carry injured people following an explosion during a Shiite procession in Quetta, Pakistan Photo: AP Earlier in the day, a suicide attack on a mosque in the northwest Pakistani town of Mardan killed at ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he saw and heard evidence the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is taking hold in critical Kandahar province.

Forest fires plagued much of Russia during this summer's unusual wave of withering heat and drought and cloaked Moscow in a pall of smoke in August have largely died down amid strong rains, but the southern Volgograd and Saratov regions continue to suffer.

The death toll from Typhoon Kompasu, which battered the Korean peninsula with strong winds and heavy rains, rose to five in South Korea, an official said Friday.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai reassured nervous customers at the troubled Kabul Bank on Thursday, saying every penny of their deposits would be guaranteed by the government.

The Taliban is confronting a serious "cash flow" problem after losing some half of its annual drug trade money to a farming blight and government eradication efforts, a Marine two-star general said Thursday.

The top US military commander in Afghanistan says the sometimes strained relationship between the US and Afghan President Hamid Karzai is solid.

Two American troops died in fighting in Afghanistan on Thursday, while NATO said it had killed the leader of an insurgent cell responsible for laying roadside bombs and smuggling foreign fighters into the country.

China called Thursday for a compromise among the parties to talks aimed at disarming North Korea's nuclear program in order to get the negotiations back on track.

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks during the US Forces-Iraq change of command ceremony in Baghdad, Wednesday Sept.

The United States has charged Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, with the US government still offering a reward of up to $5 million for information about him.