WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. Bush administration assessment of Afghanistan to be given to the next president tacitly acknowledges its Pakistan strategy has failed, sources say.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- President George Bush revealed his inner football player Saturday, taking a kick at a football prior to the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Mullah Omar, the Taliban head in Afghanistan, will likely not renounce his group's violent ways under a new proposed deal, a White House official said Monday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. drone aircraft attack killed seven people Sunday night at a compound along Pakistan's northern tribal border region, a Pakistani military official said.

BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A draft Iraqi security agreement calls for U.S. combat troops to leave the country in 2011, an Iraqi government spokesman said.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Government corruption and increased militant violence are leading Afghanistan in a downward spiral, a classified U.S. intelligence report says.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The United States indicated Wednesday it wasn't changing its stance on North Korea despite reports that Pyongyang had resumed construction of a nuclear plant.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- The White House said Thursday there will be "further consequences" if Russia fails to withdraw from Georgia beyond the end of U.S.-Russian military cooperation.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- The White House said Thursday the United States and Iraq have made "some progress" on a new security agreement but nothing is final.