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The Obama administration is engaged in an extensive review of its war strategy in Afghanistan, and the top U.S. and NATO commander there, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has called stability in neighboring Pakistan "essential" to progress there. Pakistan's foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, talks with Renee Montagne.

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is scheduled to arrive in Pakistan Monday after years in exile. But he will receive less than a warm welcome from the country's current military ruler, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who has ordered the arrest of hundreds of his supporters.

Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged Tuesday that the violence in Iraq is not yet abating, and that the process of handing over security to Iraqi forces has "a long way to go." In mid-2005, he had declared that the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes."

The Supreme Court rules against President Bush on his administration's handling of war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees. The ruling says the proposed trials for Guantanomo detainees were illegal under U.S. law and international Geneva conventions.

Contradicting the Bush administration's main case for the war in Iraq, the Defense Department for the first time says that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had no direct ties to al-Qaida.

In a series of essays, commentator Steve Coll reflects on how terrorism binds voters in America, Afghanistan and Pakistan. His new book Ghost Wars chronicles the CIA's covert history in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden's rise.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. colleges have assumed new responsibilities for reporting information about foreign students. Some school officials feel a tension between a university's mission of openness and Homeland Security's mission of keeping out problematic people.

A few years ago, urban cows in Lucknow, India, began starving to death. They had plenty of garbage to graze on, but were getting skinnier. An inspection of sick cows revealed the problem, and a solution soon followed. So why are the cows still dying?

The city of San Diego will look at a new rules today to force more construction and demolition waste to be recycled. But to offset lost tipping fees at the dump, residents will likely see their costs

Poverty forces millions of Pakistani children along the Grand Trunk Road to work rather than go to school; they grow up fast. Others, such as Shazia Bibi, don't get that chance. The 12-year-old girl died under murky circumstances; her wealthy employer is being investigated in connection with her death.