The Taliban's shadowy leader told Afghans on Wednesday that the insurgents are winning the war and warned Americans that they are wasting lives and billions in tax dollars by continuing in the conflict.

Seldom visible in the Yemeni mountains, the elite U.S. commandos training the Yemen's military represent the Obama administration's quest to fight terrorism without inflaming anti-American sentiment.

A servant of the politically powerful clan accused in last year's massacre of 57 people told a Philippine court Wednesday that the family members plotted the killings of rivals and journalists over dinner six days before the ambush.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan tells NBC News that a Florida churchs plan to burn the Quran would fuel anti-U.S. hatred rivaling the backlash against the U.S. abuses at Iraqs Abu Ghraib prison.

Iranian authorities have suspended the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world.

Seven women in Mexico serving prison terms of up to 29 years for the death of their newborns are freed after a legal reform enacted in the state of Guanajuato lowered their sentences.

At least 22 Mexican journalists have been killed over the past four years, according to a U.S.-based media watchdog group that is calling on the government to respond forcefully to the dangers facing reporters who cover the country's drug war.

Iraqi police and health officials say at least six people have been killed and 35 wounded in two separate attacks in Baghdad.

Heavily armed gunmen attacked a prison in the central Nigerian city of Bauchi late on Tuesday, freeing as many as 800 inmates including suspected members of a militant Islamic sect, police said Wednesday.

Russian aviation investigators have launched a probe into the emergency landing of a passenger jet that rolled into a forest without hurting anyone.

The Dalai Lama has given $50,000 from his personal trust to support research into the science behind kindness and compassion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Pakistan will soon charge three men alleged to have helped failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad meet up with militant leaders and send him money to carry out the attack.

Nine years after 9/11, Osama bin Ladens network remains a shadowy, little-understood enemy. The truth, as revealed by one of its fighters, is both more and less troubling than we think.

Australia and New Zealand shared first place, and the United States tied for fifth, in a first-of-its kind survey ranking 153 nations on the willingness of their citizens to donate time and money to charity.

Bin Laden remains important as the guiding icon that is drawing people to jihad. Yet U.S. intelligence agencies have not had any actionable intelligence about his location since he disappeared in mid-December 2001 after the battle of Tora Bora. Informed hypotheses put him in or around Pakistans tribal regions, but these are only educated guesses.

Syrian drama aired on state TV has sparked intense debate between critics who say it distorts Islam's image and supporters who say it's a realistic portrayal.

Men armed with assault rifles burst into a shoe factory and opened fire Tuesday, killing at least 15 workers and wounding eight, Honduran authorities said.