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.

It is not often that two women create a book that helps unite Lebanese expatriates with their compatriots in their homeland, a task which - let's face it - is not easy for this country. It is fitting, however, that

Israel is sending automated voice messages to mobile phones and interfering with phone lines in Beirut and southern Lebanon in what appears to be an attempt to incite the Lebanese against Hizbullah one day after a United Nations-brokered prisoner swap,

A consortium of philanthropists, intelligentsia, and politicians turned over ceremonial shovels of dirt Tuesday evening to commemorate the groundbreaking ceremony of the Lebanese American University (LAU) Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chaghoury School of Medicine - Lebanon's seventh licensed medical school.

The rehabilitation and equipment project of a waste management center in Arab Salim in the southern qada of Nabatiyeh, financed by Italy, was inaugurated Thursday by representatives of the Italian Development Cooperation Office of the Italian Embassy in Beirut and

Iran welcomes as positive America's decision to take part in international talks on its nuclear programme.

The forms of harassment reported by Egyptian men, whose country attracts millions of foreign tourists each year, include touching or ogling women and shouting sexually explicit remarks. "Sexual harassment has become an overwhelming and very real problem experienced by all

Forty people were also injured when a train ploughed into the vehicles after a truck slammed into a car and a bus waiting at the crossing, pushing them onto the tracks. "The death toll from the Marsa Matrouh accident rose

I haven't for even one day regretted what I did," he said as he arrived at his family home in the Druze village of Aabey, southeast of Beirut, where he was given a hero's welcome. "On the contrary I remain

Everyone who commits "an act of terror against Israel, especially someone like Kantar, who killed a little child and two other people, is a target," an official said. "If there is a chance for Israel to close the file on

It said that Saudis rank 26th among the happiest people in the world. The study's criteria of happiness was the contentment of a people with their living standard. The Arabic daily Asharq Al Awsat reported early this month that participants