A highly-classified U.S. report that said the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, is ready to take control in Afghanistan was not an analysis of the military campaign’s progress, a NATO spokesman said Wednesday.

Syrian troops battled army defectors in a string of towns in the mountains overlooking Damascus on Wednesday in a new assault to crush rebellious areas around the capital, activists said.

European Union nations must increasingly pool their military resources, especially as individual members keep trimming their budgets and the U.S reshapes its military strategy to focus on regions beyond Europe, the bloc’s top defense officials …

Less than 25 percent of Afghans say the national police are now strong enough to handle security without international forces’ help, but three-quarters believe they will be ready by the 2014 NATO handover, according to …

Democrats investigating the failed gun-running probe known as “Operation Fast and Furious” are laying the blame at the feet of officials in Arizona, saying in a new report that lawmakers from both sides of the …

Oman’s ruler, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, a longtime, discreet intermediary with Iran, says that Iran is seriously seeking a way out of American-led sanctions over its nuclear program and urges the United States to re-engage …

Most evangelical Republicans in Florida believe that Mormons are not Christian, but they also find Mitt Romney an acceptable nominee for the Republican Party.

Men are the head of their wives despite what some in the church and those outside of it argue, Mark Driscoll recently affirmed during his latest “Real Marriage” sermon series based on his controversial book.

A same-sex “marriage” bill that would force church-run facilities to open their doors to homosexual couples seeking marriage has passed a key committee in the Washington state Senate. The full Senate is expected also to …

The president of the Global Council of Indian Christians is trying to raise international awareness of the case of an Indian pastor arrested on charges ‘disturbing communal peace,’ reports Michael Ireland, Senior International Correspondent, ASSIST …