At least 842 US military deaths in Afghanistan region since 2001, Defense Department says. As of Friday, Nov. 18, 2009, at least 842 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EST.

Today in History - Nov. 21. Today is Saturday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2009. There are 40 days left in the year.

Blast near aid office wounds 1 security guard in northwest Pakistan town near border. An explosion struck the office of an aid organization in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, wounding a security guard, police said.

A bomb exploded near the building of a non-government organisation offering treatment to the blind in northwest Peshawar city on Saturday, injuring one person, police said.

Obama says terrorist networks such as al-Qaeda greatest threat facing US, must be snuffed out. President Barack Obama is telling Chinese students that the greatest threat to the United States' security is terrorist networks such as al-Qaeda.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday the greatest threats to the United States continued to be terrorist networks like al Qaeda.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in New Delhi Monday for talks on a stalled trans-national gas pipeline and a possible Indian prime ministerial visit to Iran, officials said.

Hailed as a hero for ending decades of civil war, Sri Lanka's most decorated general now looks set to challenge for the presidency -- a move that some analysts view with deep foreboding.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide car-bomber killed four people on Monday near a Pakistan air force base close to the northwestern city of Peshawar and the Afghan border, a government official said.

New Zealand's hopes for the three-Test series against Pakistan have been boosted by news Monday that captain Daniel Vettori has been cleared of injury fears.

Dozens of Guantanamo detainees are getting their day in court after years of waiting. In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

A senior security officer was killed by a landmine and two soldiers died in a gunbattle in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday in a spike in violence ahead of the winter, officials said.

Bangladeshi authorities have stepped up security in the capital ahead of a court verdict expected this week over the murder of the country's founding president more than three decades ago.

French forces say rockets hit Afghan market, apparently targeting French general. Insurgents fired two rockets Monday into a crowded market northeast of Kabul where the head of French forces in Afghanistan held a meeting with tribal elders. The attack killed three children and wounded 20 other people, the French military said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in New Delhi Monday for talks on a stalled trans-national gas pipeline and a possible Indian prime ministerial visit to Iran, officials said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in New Delhi Monday for talks on a stalled trans-national gas pipeline and a possible Indian prime ministerial visit to Iran, officials said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in New Delhi Monday for talks on a stalled trans-national gas pipeline and a possible Indian prime ministerial visit to Iran, officials said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States has stepped up pressure on Pakistan to expand its fight against Taliban and al Qaeda militants, the New York Times reported on Monday, as a suicide bomber killed four people in the latest militant attack.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States has stepped up pressure on Pakistan to expand its fight against Taliban and al Qaeda militants, the New York Times reported on Monday, as a suicide bomber killed four people in the latest militant attack.

Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar on Monday found himself at the centre of a political storm after comments he made about his identity upset a hardline regional Hindu party.