MOSCOW: Russian rescuers retrieved 12 bodies while three remained missing on Monday after a helicopter carrying senior regional officials crashed into a remote northern lake. The Mi-8 helicopter carrying 17 passengers and crew including top regional officials and businessmen, crashed … read more
Bowe Bergdahl could be reunited with his family as soon as Wednesday, part of a carefully managed reintegration program the military uses for freed captives. Bergdahl is being debriefed at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany after a harrowing five-year … read more
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will press European leaders this week to keep up pressure on Russia over its threatening moves in Ukraine, while seeking to assuage fears from Poland and other NATO allies that the West could slip back into … read more
GHAZNI: Twelve persons were killed and two others wounded following roadside bomb explosions in the Giro district of southern Ghazni province on Saturday, an official said. The blasts took place at around 9:30am in Mazar village as two vehicles carrying … read more
WASHINGTON: The CIA’s targeted killing program in Pakistan, once the mainstay of President Barack Obama’s counter-terrorism effort, is winding down. Because of stricter rules, diplomatic sensitivities and the changing nature of the al-Qaida threat, there hasn’t been a U.S. drone … read more