In a further step toward reconciling with insurgents, President Hamid Karzai said Saturday he will soon name the members of a council tasked with pursuing peace talks with rebels willing to break with al-Qaida and recognize the government in Kabul.

Richard Etchberger died in Laos in 1968, saving fellow Americans at a top-secret radar station overrun by North Vietnamese commandos. He was nominated that year for the Medal of Honor. But there was a problem: The U.S. was not supposed to have troops ...

Against a predictably polarized backdrop President Barack Obama spoke to the nation from the Oval Office tonight, only his second such address since he took office. The address capped off several days of events commemorating the end of "combat operat ...