LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan's neighbours must support such an agreement.
MANSEHRA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants attacked the office of a U.S.-based Christian aid agency in Pakistan on Wednesday with a bomb and gunfire, killing five members of staff, police and the agency said.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's prime minister has extended the term of the head of the country's main intelligence agency by a year in a move expected to reinforce efforts to fight Islamic militancy.
BISHKEK (Reuters) - The United States will help Kyrgyzstan build an anti-terrorism training centre in the Central Asian state where Washington operates a key military air base, the U.S. embassy said on Tuesday.
KABUL (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived on Wednesday for a visit to Afghanistan, after U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he was wary of Tehran's influence in the country.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - China has agreed to lend $290 million to Sri Lanka to build a new airport and revive its railway network, the island nation's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
NOW ZAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - To hear the U.S. military describe it, this dusty city in Helmand is one of the great success stories of the Afghan war -- a former ghost town, secured by Marines and now drawing residents back home.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to travel to Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, a day after the United States accused the Islamic state of a "double game" in its neighbour.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A weekend tiff involving lawmakers from Pakistan's tribal areas and airport security personnel in the United States underscores how tough it is to reverse years of U.S.-Pakistani mistrust.
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Two NATO soldiers were killed on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military base in Afghanistan, the alliance and local government sources said.
