After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States claimed a series of successes in battling Al-Qaeda: toppling the Taliban in Afghanistan; destroying training bases the Islamic regime had allowed Al-Qaeda to operate there; and arresting key aides to Osama bin Laden, including Khalid Sheik Muhammad, the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attacks.

President Bush says Afghanistan and Iraq are making progress in the war on terrorism. In his weekly radio address Saturday, Mr. Bush talked about his meeting with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai at Camp David earlier this week.

U.S. President George Bush says he is confident that Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf has both the desire and the ability to hunt down al-Qaida terrorists along the border with Afghanistan.

Hundreds of Pakistani and Afghan delegates are holding a landmark peace conference, or jirga, in the Afghan capital, Kabul. The four-day talks are focused on curbing pro-Taleban violence and improving ties between the two countries.

Pakistan on Friday criticized U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama for saying that, if elected, he might order unilateral military strikes inside this Islamic nation to root out terrorists.

U.S. President George W. Bush today reiterated his view that Iraq is central to the U.S.-led war on terror. Speaking to an audience of U.S. servicemen, Bush said "there will be a big defeat in Iraq and it will be the defeat of Al-Qaida."

US President George W Bush has signed an executive order banning "creul, inhuman or degrading treatment" of terror suspects.

A Pakistani official has told a visiting U.S. diplomat that al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and Taleban leader Mullah Omar are not hiding in southwestern Pakistan. Jam Mohammed Yousaf, the top elected official in southwestern Baluchistan province, also told Richard Boucher that Pakistan is doing all it can to secure the border with Afghanistan.

Amnesty International's recent 2007 human rights report harshly criticized the United States for what it called Washington's "breathtakingly shameless" doublespeak on human rights. It accused the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush of overlooking and even encouraging rights abuses around the world while pursuing the war on terror.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has praised Australia for helping the United States in the Middle East. Mike O'Sulivan reports, Rice and Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer spoke at the Reagan Library during a visit to California.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice claimed "considerable progress" in the global fight against terrorism as she prepared to ask skeptical Arab governments to do more and to underwrite democracy in Iraq.

President Bush called Afghan President Hamid Karzai from the White House earlier Thursday to reaffirm the strong relationship shared between the two countries.