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President Obama accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday and replaced him with Gen. David Petraeus (above right), head of U.S. Central Command. McChrystal was pushed out over his blistering remarks about administration officials quoted in a magazine interview.

President Obama has accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and is replacing him with Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, the president announced Wednesday.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington to explain derogatory comments about President Obama and his colleagues, administration officials said Tuesday.

White House officials say Gen. Stanley McChrystal has been summoned to Washington to explain his controversial comments in a Rolling Stone profile that casts him as a lone wolf on the outs with key figures in the Obama administration.

As the U.S. and European Union move to tighten sanctions against Iran to pressure it to curb its nuclear ambitions, Turkey is emerging as a middleman in the dispute. On Friday, Iran called the U.N. sanctions approved earlier this month "illegal."

For the first time in history, the U.S. government has authorized the killing of one of its own citizens. We speak to Amita Sharma about terror suspect Anwar al Awlaki's ties to San Diego.

Yemeni cleric Anwar al Awlaki is suspected of inspiring some Americans to commit terrorist acts, including two New Jersey men recently arrested and the shooter in the Fort Hood massacre. Investigative reporter Amita Sharma looks at the five years he spent in San Diego as a imam in a La Mesa mosque.

Steve Inskeep talks with reporter Kevin Poulsen of Wired.com about his article on the arrest of an American soldier who is suspected of leaking classified U.S. combat video and other documents to WikiLeaks, a whistle-blower website.

Turkey's ambassador to the U.S. warned Friday that his country could sever diplomatic relations with Israel over the deadly raid last week on a Turkish vessel carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Rocky Israeli-Turkish relations could affect U.S. policy in the region.

The Turkish-registered ship Marmara was the target of the Israeli commando raid that left nine people dead and dozens more wounded on a Gaza-bound flotilla of aid ships. Fury over their deaths has led to the biggest crisis in Israeli-Turkey relations in years.