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British Royal Marines have completed a two-week hunt for Islamic rebels in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

British Marines have been involved in a firefight in eastern Afghanistan in their first direct conflict with enemy fighters.

A U.N. expert strongly recommended Wednesday that the 1,700-year-old statues of Buddha in Afghanistan destroyed by the Taliban not be rebuilt.

A unmanned U.S. Air Force spy plane crashed in Pakistan early Saturday during its return from a routine mission, according to the U.S. Central Command.

Hundreds of U.S. and coalition troops are spreading out along the northern Afghan-Pakistan border in an effort to stop al Qaeda and Taliban forces who may be regrouping in the area.

Senior U.S. military officials continued Monday to adamantly deny that U.S. troops have crossed from Afghanistan into Pakistan to look for al Qaeda or Taliban fighters.

U.S. Special Forces killed five suspected Taliban fighters and captured 32 others after an exchange of gunfire in western Afghanistan Sunday, a senior Pentagon official said Monday.

U.S. Special Forces raided a compound in eastern Afghanistan near where a fellow soldier was killed in a weekend attack by suspected Taliban or al Qaeda fighters, a U.S. Army spokesman said Tuesday.

A U.S. Special Forces soldier was killed Sunday during a firefight in eastern Afghanistan, an Army spokesman said.

A U.S. Special Forces soldier killed Sunday in Afghanistan was ambushed while taking part in Operation Mountain Lion, designed to locate, isolate and destroy al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Monday.

U.S. State Department sources said Friday that remains recovered by police in Karachi, Pakistan, appear to be the body of slain journalist Daniel Pearl.

The United States is setting up a joint task force headquarters in Afghanistan, a move that signifies a long-term U.S. commitment to the region, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

The Pentagon estimates 17 million nuclear casualties in South Asia should India and Pakistan embark on a nuclear strike against one another.

The White House has echoed Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's call for a new dawn in the country following her release Monday from 19 months of confinement.

Vietnam's government says nearly all the country's eligible voters have cast ballots in the latest elections.

For the first time, an all-female U.S. climbing team is about to scale the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.

The European Union's head of external affairs, Chris Patten, has extended a tour of the region to visit officials in New Delhi, after meeting with Pakistani leaders in Islamabad.