The American troop surge in Iraq was effectively declared over on Saturday, when officials announced that 5 000 soldiers will this week begin pulling out in response to declining…

Former Chadian rebels waiting to join the national army have left their eastern bases to make for the Sudanese border, their former chief told international French radio station…

A suicide bomber killed 28 Afghan troops and two civilians on Saturday in an attack on an army bus in Kabul, the Afghan president said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the…