Number of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan doubles in 2009
The year's tally was 318, compared with 155 in 2008, due mostly to the crude but ever larger and deadlier roadside bombs employed by the Taliban. And Western military fatalities are expected to spike.
Afghanistan Suicide Bomber May Have Been Helped by CIA Informant
The suicide bomber who killed eight Americans, including seven CIA officers, this week might have been able to get through multiple layers of security at the U.S. compound aided by an Afghan informant with the agency, a Western official said Friday.
Attacked CIA base oversees air strikes
The CIA base attacked by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan on Wednesday was at the heart of a covert program overseeing strikes by the agency's remote-controlled aircraft along the border with Pakistan.
Afghan tensions rise amid civilian and CIA deaths
U.N. to Cut Foreign Staff in Pakistan for Safety
The United Nations is moving as many as 60 foreign employees, or about one-quarter of its international staff, out of Pakistan for at least six months over safety concerns, a United Nations official said Thursday.
Top US general stresses importance of Iraq vote
Gen. David Petraeus, the leading American general who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, speaks with reporters in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. Gen. Petraeus, who used to be the top American commander in Iraq, says the upcoming Iraq election in March is of "enormous importance" to the country's future, but warned of violence leading up to it.
Focus on Internet Imams as Recruiters for Al Qaeda
The apparent ties between the Nigerian man charged with plotting to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day and a radical American-born Yemeni imam have cast a spotlight on a world of charismatic clerics who wield their Internet celebrity to indoctrinate young Muslims with extremist ideology and recruit them for Al Qaeda, American officials and counterterrorism specialists said.
Report to Obama Shows Intelligence Lapses Persist
Al Shabaab urges Muslims to support Yemeni Qaeda
Somalia's hardline Islamist rebel group al Shabaab said on Friday it was ready to send reinforcements to al Qaeda in Yemen should the U.S. carry out retaliatory strikes, and urged other Muslims to follow suit.
TSA nominee misled Congress about accessing confidential records
The White House nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration gave Congress misleading information about incidents in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database, possibly in violation of privacy laws, documents obtained by The Washington Post show.
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