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The attacks on civilian and military targets in central and eastern Afghanistan Tuesday left 10 people dead and dozens wounded.

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Top congressional leaders on Friday vented their frustrations over Iraq's refusal to hand over a senior leader of the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah to the United States for trial. 

President Obama has authorized the CIA and other government agencies to provide support for anti-government rebels looking to overthrow Syrian president Bashar Assad. 

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A recent deal to allow U.S. and coalition forces to keep moving weapons and supplies out of Afghanistan through Pakistan is a solid first step toward repairing the frayed relations between Washington and Islamabad.

In a deal struck Tuesday between Islamabad, Washington and Brussels, coalition forces will retain access to Pakistani supply routes until 2015.

All American forces are scheduled to leave Afghanistan by 2014. The first 23,000 U.S. Marines are set to come home this summer.

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A DOD progress report says delays to long-term reconstruction work could weaken the Afghan-led mission after U.S. forces depart.

A U.S-led drone strike killed seven suspected militants in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, days before top intelligence officials from Washington and Islamabad are set to resume negotiations over the airstrikes inside the country.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is laying the groundwork for closer military ties to Tunisia's newly democratic government, focusing on the growing al Qaeda threat in Africa. 

While the United States' counterterror campaign against al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate has dominated the headlines in recent months, the group's Africa cell has quietly emerged as the groups strongest and best funded faction, according to a top U.S. general. 

The top U.S. commander in Kabul said the drawdown of forces would accelerate before September.

The Pentagon could not confirm or deny whether the suicide bomber who attacked a busload of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria on Wednesday was a former terror detainee at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.