Claire Truscott

General David Petraeus stepped down as United States commander in Afghanistan on Monday after a year at the helm of what is America’s longest war.

The FBI is conducting its own probe into the deaths of eight foreign workers gunned down in Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Taliban.

Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India on Thursday opened their first key talks since the 2008 Mumbai attacks derailed a peace process.

A few aid shipments had arrived in Burma’s main city by Thursday, but the planeloads of supplies and heavy equipment needed to help millions of cyclone victims remain largely…