Afghan firing ranges a deadly temptation for metal scavengers

GHAFOR KHIL, Afghanistan — In a country as poor as Afghanistan, even the detritus of war holds value — and often tragic...

Chinese police kill eight Uighurs in Xinjiang clash

BEIJING -- Police in China’s far western Xinjiang region killed eight people Monday when a group wielding knives and throwing...

Insurgents could quickly bounce back in Afghanistan, analysis warns

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies warn in a new, classified assessment that insurgents could quickly regain control of key areas...

Kolkata is fertile ground for Indian ghost stories

KOLKATA, India — Rumors swept Kolkata this year that a runaway boy spent the night beside a 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy in the...

26 passengers killed as fire sweeps train in India

KOTHACHERUVU, India  — A fire engulfed two coaches of an express train in southern India on Saturday, killing at least 26...

Threat of military coup hangs over Thailand unrest

A day after street protests turned deadly in Thailand, the head of the army declined on Friday to rule out a military coup d'etat to quell...

Afghanistan: Three NATO troops dead in Kabul suicide attack

KABUL, Afghanistan--Three international service members were killed Friday and at least seven civilians were wounded in a suicide car bomb...

From MRAP to scrap: U.S. military chops up $1-million vehicles

BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Faced with an epidemic of deadly roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. military officials ordered up a...

Car bomb kills 3 coalition troops in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of international troops in an eastern district of the Afghan capital Kabul on...

Japan governor OKs new U.S. Marine base on Okinawa

TOKYO -- The governor of Okinawa gave the go-ahead Friday for land reclamation to begin for a new U.S. military base, advancing the effort...

Turkish prosecutor decries his removal from corruption investigation

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — An Istanbul prosecutor said Thursday that he had been removed from the investigation of corruption involving the...

Abe visits shrine to Japanese war dead, angering neighbors, U.S.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a controversial shrine to World War II dead, including 14 convicted war criminals, ignoring U.S....

U.S. contractor kidnapped in Pakistan pleads for Obama's help

An American contractor kidnapped by Al Qaeda in Pakistan two years ago appears in a video that surfaced Thursday pleading with President...

China marks Mao's 120th birthday; tension over his legacy lingers

BEIJING -- China marked the 120th anniversary of Mao Tse-tung’s birth Thursday, feting the communist revolutionary with concerts of...

Three Turkish Cabinet ministers resign amid corruption investigation

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Three senior ministers in Turkey's Cabinet resigned Wednesday as a secret 14-month corruption investigation of bid...

In China, nothing says Merry Christmas like ... an apple?

BEIJING -- Christmas may not be an official day off in China -- banks, offices and schools are open as normal. But with the holiday becoming...

Lung cancer: A cloud on China's polluted horizon

BEIJING — The youngest known lung cancer patient in eastern China is an 8-year-old girl whose home is next to a dust-choked road in...

Two NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — Two NATO service members were killed in Afghanistan on Monday after coming under fire by enemy forces in separate...

2 NATO service members killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A NATO service member was killed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday after coming under direct fire by enemy forces,...

U.S. Embassy in Kabul defends itself against blistering fraud reports

KABUL, Afghanistan — The reports are cranked out with relentless efficiency: blistering tales of waste, fraud and abuse of American...