Politics

WASHINGTON — The White House sought to reassert control over the public debate on the Afghanistan war Monday as political reaction to the disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased pressure on […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan officials said Monday that 52 people were killed in southern Afghanistan on Friday when a rocket fired by coalition forces slammed into a house where women and children had taken shelter […] […]

LONDON—It has no headquarters and its public face—a wiry, silver-haired Australian with a physics Ph.D.—carries his desktop computer in a backpack as he moves from place to place. WikiLeaks is a bare-bones organization on a […] […]

WASHINGTON—Fresh diplomatic fury over alleged Pakistani ties to the Taliban flared anew as the White House scrambled to downplay a trove of leaked U.S. military documents that show the blow-by-blow of six dismal years of […] […]

Defence Minister Wayne Mapp yesterday confirmed he was on the flight deck of an RNZAF Hercules forced to take defensive action against a missile threat in Afghanistan last year in one of thousands of incidents […] […]

WASHINGTON – The massive release of secret Pentagon documents by Wikileaks highlights the security challenges of the digital age, when gigabytes of stolen data can be shared in one click, say analysts. “I think about […] […]

THE US Defence Department said today it was trying to assess the damage caused by the leak of some 91,000 classified documents on the Afghanistan war. The documents are described as battlefield reports compiled by […] […]

People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man. Now they say they see in him something equally rare – an honest politician. Sagbo […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan—Two ex-soldiers and two Afghan companies schemed to steal $1.6 million of fuel from a military base, the U.S. military disclosed Monday as an example of its efforts to root out shady dealings in […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—The head of Iran’s opposition warned the country’s hard-line political leaders Monday that they could suffer the same fate as the deposed Shah if they continue to consolidate their grip on power. The powerful […] […]