Afghanistan

Polaroid chairman under fire after hacking collective reveals fawning comments to Syrian dictator and promises support.

Anonymous: Full Text of Assad's adviser Sheherazad Jaafari to to former Al Jazeera journalist Luna Chebel

Convicted terrorist due for release from prison just hours before the Olympic Games begin.

Jewish communities remain targets as recession and conflicts in Middle East stoke fires of aggression.

Argentinian media surprised by Prince William's arrival in Falklands as 30th anniversary of conflict approaches.

US soldier in Afghanistan jailed for 30 days after assault over sleeping on sentry duty ended in tragedy.

Obama was on an hour-long video chat on Google’s social networking site Google+ “hangout”.

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Husband and mother-in-law choke mum-of-three for failing to produce a son.

Peace talks will take place before Taliban sets up office in Qatar but critics say it is a stalling tactic to refresh rebel troops.

American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, were working for the Danish Deming Group when they were taken hostage by Somali pirates.

Afghan soldier who killed French soldiers was protesting about video of US Marines urinating on Taliban corpses.

Master Arghan calligrapher Mohammad Sabir Khedri takes five years to complete world's largest Koran.

The Taliban said the soldiers were killed to avenge the killings of their comrades.

Afghan soldier opens fire on unarmed French troops during training session

Radio 1 DJ joins Caroline Flack, Miquita Oliver and Jane Sheperdson at Oxfam’s Get Together fundraiser launch.

Two UK servicemen were arrested by military police after claims they filmed themselves abusing two Afghan children.

Ex-Marine and Iraq war veteran arrested Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, after he killed a 64-year-old man outside a fast-food restaurant in Yorba Linda.

Police evict anti-war protesters to end 10-year encampment outside Houses of Parliament

Afghanistan National Institute of Music is believed to be the only music academy in the country.

Scotland Yard will investigate allegations over rendition in Libya which will put paid to foreign secretary William Hague'splan to "draw a line under the issue."

Adel al-Gazzar languishes in Egyptian jail despite release without conviction from Guantanamo.

YouTube video of alleged marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters sparks diplomatic fears and social media fury.

Well-known and award-winning French journalist Gilles Jacquier has been killed in Homs, Syria, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the International Business Times UK.

A French journalist has been killed in Homs, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the International Business Times UK.

Amnesty International says Guantanamo a symbol of torture and hits out at Barack Obama for breaking promise to close it.

Security breach after police move freely around 2012 Olympic park with a 'bomb'.

The 34-mile wide (at its narrowest point) oil transit route holds the key to deciding a new geopolitical equation as major world powers are already taking sides in case of a war.

Global companies urged to emphasise human rights in face of growing child exploitation figures.

White House agrees in principle to release Taliban leaders as part of peace negotiations.