Michael Kitchen

Al Qaida leader, world's most wanted terrorist, was killed by US forces in Pakistan May 1 at age 54

In one of the deadliest attacks in months in Afghanistan, a bombing in the southeastern city of Kandahar has killed at least five people and injured

Pakistan's Islamic parties are dismissing government demands for further reform of religious schools, which are suspected to be hotbeds of radicalism

The Central Asian state of Uzbekistan is trumpeting its parliamentary elections as another successful democratic exercise.

Pakistan continues to hand suspected terrorists from al-Qaida and other groups to the United States.

The beginning of 2004 saw revelations of a Pakistan-based black market, selling nuclear-weapons technology to foreign governments during the 1990s

One week after the abduction of three foreign election workers in Afghanistan, Afghan and United Nations officials are hoping for a breakthrough in

Afghanistan has appointed its first female provincial governor in keeping with the new government's policy of promoting women to positions of power

More troops will be sent to strengthen the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan ahead of parliamentary elections later this year.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Washington will not abandon Afghanistan as it did in the 1990s. Ms.