JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Staff Sgt. Robert Bales spent the evening on his remote outpost in southern Afghanistan with fellow soldiers, watching a movie about revenge killings, sharing ...

The hardscrabble village of Kashkak, a collection of mud-brick homes perched on a dusty plateau in western Afghanistan, is now a pile of rubble. The village was flattened by a magnitude 6.3 quake ...

KABUL -- Afghanistan's government has revised a law that stirred an international outcry because it essentially legalized marital rape, officials said Thursday. The new version no longer requires a ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — When asked about her engagement party this summer, little Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit — a speechless response not ...

California's Proposition 8 has become a federal case. We talk with Ted Olson, the conservative lawyer who will advocate same-sex marriage in a San Francisco courtroom on Monday. What are the risks of ...

Rescuers shoveled through deep snow Tuesday searching for victims of an avalanche that destroyed a village of 200 people in northeastern Afghanistan, authorities said. Forty-seven people have been ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Feb. 5 -- The U.S. military now acknowledges making a deadly mistake two weeks ago in a nighttime raid on a village near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Pentagon sources ...