Following a faint trail through a dense patch of woods in Florida's Palm Beach County, Roy Foster is a man on a mission. Foster, 53, is searching for homeless veterans -- and he knows where to look. Whether in a vacant lot behind a supermarket or a small clearing off the highway, homeless vets aren't that hard to find: One in three homeless adults has served in the military, and more than 150,000 veterans nationwide are homeless on ...

Kyrgyzstan's president has signed a bill to close an air base that the U.S. military uses as a route for troops and supplies heading into Afghanistan, the president announced on his Web site Friday. President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed the bill into law on Friday. Once the Kyrgyz government officially hands the bill over to U.S. representatives, the U.S. military will have 180 days in which to withdraw from the base, a government spokesman said this week. The U.S. Embassy ...

There is an old Chinese proverb that says to attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend. On Friday, an old friend is due to come calling in China. Pakistan's President Asif Zardari will make his second visit to China in four months for meetings with senior political and business leaders. A key ally in the U.S.-led "War on Terror," Pakistan — desperate for money and in need of a good friend — has recently found ...

President Obama takes his first foreign trip as head of state Thursday when he travels to Canada. And though he enjoys an 81 percent approval rating north of the border, Obama is expected to tackle several explosive issues with America's largest trading partner. • The war in Afghanistan: Canada has about 2,800 troops in Afghanistan, but Parliament has voted to pull them out by 2011. At the same time, Obama has approved a significant increase in U.S. ...

At this year's U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, speaker after Muslim speaker had nothing particularly awful to say about the United States. The Muslims were, in fact, hopeful about, and slightly amazed by, the new American President. Some even wondered aloud what they could do to help him succeed. Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian opposition leader, listed the significant gestures that Obama had made toward the Islamic world, from the President's interview with al-Arabiya television network to the appointment of ...

Kyrgyzstan parliament has voted to close a base the U.S. military uses as a route for troops and supplies heading into Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Thursday. "I think the likelihood of getting the allies to commit significant numbers of additional troops is not very great,' U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on his way to Krakow, Poland. "To give credit where credit is due, the allies have increased the number of non-U.S. troops by about 15,000 over the last ...

Having just upped the ante in Afghanistan by 17,000 troops, the United States will look for greater commitments from its NATO partners this week, but isn't expecting much of a response. "I think the likelihood of getting the allies to commit significant numbers of additional troops is not very great,' U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on his way to Krakow, Poland. "To give credit where credit is due, the allies have increased the number of non-U.S. troops by about ...

As the debate plays out about whether President Obama's decision to send an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan will help ease the increase in Taliban insurgency, the president is reaching out to allies for help. Obama said in an interview on Canadian television Tuesday that diplomacy will play a bigger role in U.S. efforts in Afghanistan. "I am absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region solely through military ...

A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that 17 native Chinese Muslims in military custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cannot be released into the United States. The three-judge panel concluded by a 2-1 vote there is no legal or constitutional authority for the detainees to be immediately freed, even though they are unlawfully detained and no country is willing to accept them. The 17 men are Uighurs, an ethnic group from western China. They are accused of receiving weapons and ...

Attackers in a Taliban-controlled area of Pakistan shot and tried to behead a Pakistani journalist on Wednesday, according to his employer GEO TV. The slain correspondent, Mosa Khankhel, had been covering the recent peace deal between the Pakistani government and Taliban militants in Swat Valley when he was killed, GEO TV managing director Azhar Abbas said. "He is the first martyr of this peace deal," Abbas said, adding that he believes it is unlikely the deal will end the campaign ...