Jailed Afghan drug lord was CIA informant: report

A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed nine people outside the defence ministry in central Kabul on Saturday during a visit to the Afghan capital by new US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan teenager killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck while he played with a group of local children, officials said Monday.

CHICAGO (AP) — Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs say the federal government needs to act now or it might lose the chance to nullify Colorado and Washington's laws legalizing recreational marijuana use. The onetime DEA heads plan to issue joint statements Tuesday saying the Obama administration has reacted too slowly and should immediately sue to force the states to rescind the legislation.

ByJoseph Dedvukaj:Retail investors were right and Wall Street was wrong about the approval of Arena Pharmaceuticals' (ARNA) lead drug candidate Belviq (Lorcaserin).

US President Barack Obama paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan, his first since taking office, vowing to reverse the Taliban's momentum and pressing President Hamid Karzai to end corruption.Obama secretly flew through the night on Air Force One to Kabul Sunday, and his visit took place entirely under the cover of darkness amid deep security concerns as a potentially crucial phase nears in the eight-year war.

I think it’s good that Barack Obama didn’t pull the cynical stunt of trying to pretend that US military engagement in Afghanistan is primarily about helping Afghan women. That said, I think Dylan Matthews goes too far in suggesting that US military engagement in Afghanistan is actually irrelevant for Afghan women: