Two top Pentagon officials said Wednesday that they expect to be able to recommend troops cuts in Iraq this fall and will try to increase troops in Afghanistan.

Pentagon leaders on Wednesday signaled a surge in U.S. forces in Afghanistan "sooner rather than later," a shift that could send some units there within weeks, as officials prepare to cut troop levels in Iraq.

WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- The United States may consider raising troop strength in Afghanistan even as it considers cuts in Iraq, top defense officials indicated.

The Afghan president sets up a team to investigate claims Pakistan dumped nuclear waste in South Afghanistan.

The US is increasingly worried about the threat from militant groups inside Pakistan, writes the BBC's Kim Ghattas.

The BBC's Alastair Leithead travels to Bamiyan in Afghanistan to see what could be perhaps the oldest oil paintings in the world.

Dozens of civilians are killed by US bombing in Afghanistan, tribal elders say - Nato says it is unaware of civilian casualties.

U.S. Special Forces and Afghan troops called in airstrikes during a raid on a militant cell in western Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 15 insurgents while freeing 15 hostages, officials said.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Spc. Grover Gebhart has spent nine months at a small post on a Sunni-Shiite fault line in western Baghdad. But the 21-year-old soldier on his first tour in Iraq feels he's missing the real war --

Prince William's former commander took "the full force" of the explosion which killed him in Afghanistan an inquest hears.

Beirut - All the prisoners and the remains of the Lebanese and Arab fighters arrived from Israel within the last 2 days . The focus today will be on the burial of all the rem

Beirut / Baghdad - Sunni leader of Lebanon's parliamentary majority met with Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki , reflecting Iraq's efforts to reconcile with aloof Arab neighbors and tamp down sectarian tension across the region.

Tripoli - One person was killed and six people were injured as the result of overnight clashes in north Lebanon's largest city .

In a series of publications of PDF-versions of books inaccessible to mass audience REGNUM publishes a collection of archived documents translated into English, "Estonia: The Bloody Trace Of Nazism: 1941−1944. New Documents On Crimes Of Estonian Collaborators During The Second

A Jewish-American millionaire at the heart of a widening corruption probe that could unseat Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert returned to court on Thursday to be cross-examined by Olmert's lawyers. In May, financier Morris Talansky testified to having given Olmert

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday he wants to send more troops to Afghanistan "sooner rather than later," signaling a shift in priorities from Iraq amid warnings of an accelerating Taliban threat. Gates and Admiral Michael Mullen, the head

Barack Obama will flash Kennedy-style charisma but face a stern test as a novice on the world stage in the Middle East and Europe next week, on a trip rich in both risk and potential rewards. The presumptive Democratic nominee

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Thursday that a Shiite revolt in the country's northwest was over, but military sources said the rebels had seized a village in the area shortly after. Military and local sources said at least

The Bush administration's move to join Iran at nuclear talks echoes its pragmatic steps toward North Korea and shows how far it has come from the "axis of evil" days, analysts said Wednesday. William Burns, the third-ranking US diplomat, is

Up to 1,500 loyalists protested outside the republican palace in Khartoum on Thursday, shouting death to the world court prosecutor for seeking the arrest of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir. Shouting "God is Great" and "Go Forward Bashir" students and Arab