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Byline: Jonathan S. Landay and Saeed Shah Pakistan protested angrily Monday after the US-led international force in Afghanistan confirmed that its helicopters staged cross-border air strikes last week against Pakistan-based [...]

Byline: Dion Nissenbaum and Jonathan S. Landay Although it's just beginning, the U.S.-led effort to pacify Kandahar - the Taliban's spiritual capital in southern Afghanistan - already appears to be [...]

Byline: Saeed Shah and Jonathan S. Landay McClatchy Newspapers The U.S. must negotiate a political settlement to the Afghanistan war directly with Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar because any [...]

Iran's hard-line leaders moved aggressively Tuesday to silence protests over the disputed June 12 presidential election, rejecting demands for a new vote and announcing that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be [...]

WASHINGTON -- North Korea's new in-your-face test of a nuclear weapon poses a grave new challenge to President Obama, one with no clear path to a solution. Obama vowed Monday [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama said Thursday that he was prepared to hold some terrorism detainees now at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, indefinitely without trials, even as he stood by his plans [...]

Byline: Saeed Shah and Jonathan S. Landay McClatchy Newspapers ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's government capitulated Monday to opposition demands to restore judicial independence after the country's powerful Army and the [...]

Byline: Jonathan S. Landay McClatchy Newspapersa*a WASHINGTON -- A United Nations Security Council committee put three Pakistani leaders of the group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and a Saudi operative on a terrorist [...]

WASHINGTON -- In 74 days, President-elect Barack Obama will assume responsibility for guiding the nation out of two wars and through a daunting array of real and potential global crises, [...]

WASHINGTON -- When it comes to fighting terrorism, John McCain and Barack Obama share some common ground. Both promise to intensify cooperation with other nations, boost U.S. intelligence-gathering and bolster [...]

WASHINGTON President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top officials promoted the invasion of Iraq with public statements that weren't supported by intelligence or that concealed differences among intelligence [...]

WASHINGTON Contradicting President Bush's counterterrorism adviser, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement chiefs and a Cabinet member said Monday that Osama bin Laden remained the most dangerous terrorist threat to the [...]

PRAGUE, Czech Republic President Bush will spell out today his vision of a new ballistic missile-defense system that he wants to build in Europe, one that's fraught with controversy over [...]

WASHINGTON U.S. intelligence agencies warned the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq that ousting Saddam Hussein would create a 'significant risk' of sectarian strife, encourage al-Qaida attacks and open [...]

WASHINGTON The Bush administration operated its warrantless domestic eavesdropping program for up to three weeks in 2004 over Justice Department objections about its legality, the department's former No. 2 official [...]

Despite President Bush's repeated warnings that Al-Qaida wants to turn Iraq into a base from which to attack the United States, administration terrorism experts believe there's a graver and more [...]

Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. intelligence community routinely underreported the level of violence, according to the Iraq Study Group report. The bipartisan group called on the Pentagon and the director [...]

Washington, D.C. -- A powerful Iraqi Shiite Muslim leader urged the Bush administration on Monday to step up military attacks against Sunni insurgents and Al-Qaida terrorists in his country, saying [...]

Washington, D.C. -- The man President Bush tapped Wednesday to replace Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is a veteran national security expert with a reputation for pragmatism who has served six [...]

WASHINGTON The man President Bush tapped Wednesday to replace Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is a veteran national security expert with a reputation for pragmatism who's served six presidents of [...]

WASHINGTON Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called 'water-boarding,' which creates a sensation of drowning. Cheney indicated [...]

Washington, D.C. -- Bush plays diplomatic card with N. Korea // United Nations: Kofi Annan called for direct U.S. talks with North Korea, but President Bush rejected that option. The [...]

WASHINGTON Global condemnation rained down on North Korea on Monday as intelligence experts questioned the rogue nation's claim that it had successfully tested a nuclear weapon. North Korea's boast that [...]

Moqor, Afghanistan -- Raz Muhammad, the newly installed police chief, needed help, and he needed it quickly. The Taliban had torched part of his headquarters the previous week, killed his [...]

Washington, D.C. -- President Bush on Friday defended his efforts to stabilize war-savaged Afghanistan and blasted critics who charge that his policies there are failing. Afghanistan is reeling from its [...]

Malek Din, Afghanistan -- The soldiers of Bravo Company knew that their quarry was here, somewhere. They could hear the Taliban insurgents radio one another as they seemed to be [...]

Washington, D.C. -- President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan sought to assure President Bush on Friday that he's fighting Islamic extremism in his nation's mostly lawless border with Afghanistan. Appearing at [...]

Kabul, Afghanistan -- McClatchy Foreign Correspondent A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car Friday next to a U.S. military convoy, killing at least 14 civilians and two U.S. soldiers just [...]

Washington, D.C. -- In a policy reversal, President Bush has agreed to sign legislation allowing a secret federal court to assess the legality of his warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, Sen. [...]

President Bush sought Thursday to persuade the presidents of China and Russia to 'send one message' to North Korea by supporting proposed U.N. sanctions against the secretive one-party regime for [...]

WASHINGTON President Bush reiterated Wednesday that he would like to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but his administration is facing an awkward political and legal quandary over what [...]

BERLIN The European Union offered Monday to help Iran obtain the most advanced civilian nuclear technology if Iran halted work on uranium enrichment, a process that produces fuel for power [...]