Taliban's top military commander captured (AP)

Afghan president's half brother killed in south (AP)
AP - President Hamid Karzai's half brother, the most powerful man in southern Afghanistan and a lightning rod for criticism of corruption in the government, was assassinated Tuesday by a...

Karzai: Afghanistan, US in contacts with Taliban (AP)
AP - President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that Afghanistan and the United States are engaged in peace talks with the Taliban, even as insurgents stormed a police station near the presidential...

Mladic hollow-cheeked, shrunken after life of run (AP)
AP - Ratko Mladic suffered two strokes while on the run, has a partially paralyzed right hand and can barely speak, his son said before a Friday hearing on the Bosnian Serb military...

Quran protests spread to turbulent Afghan east (AP)
AP - Demonstrators battled police in southern Afghanistan's main city on Sunday and took to the streets in the turbulent east for the first time as Western pleas failed to halt a third day of...

Commander: US can't seal Afghan-Pakistan border (AP)
AP - American troops are focusing on fighting Taliban militants and defending vulnerable towns on Afghan soil, as it has become practically impossible to stop insurgents from slipping across...