U.S. commander expected to ask for more troops
WASHINGTON — More troops and a new strategy for using them are emerging as critical components to the eight-year-old effort...
Opposition party likely to take reins
TOKYO — Japan's likely next prime minister rushed to select Cabinet ministers today after his party trounced the ruling conservative...
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi journalist jailed after hurling his shoes at former President George W. Bush will be released next month after his sentence was reduced for good behav...
BAGHDAD — Major Shiite groups have formed a new alliance that will exclude the Iraqi prime minister, lawmakers said today, a move likely to stoke fears of increasing Ira...
U.S. soldier killed in attack
KABUL — Three NATO troops — two from Estonia and one from the United States — were killed in attacks in southern Afghanistan as fraud charge...
Move could hurt relations with U.S.
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Scottish legislators gathered today for an emergency meeting on the government's decision to release the Lockerb...
He was wanted in ex-wife's death
HOPE, British Columbia — For Ryan Jenkins, life ended in a suicide in a remote Canadian motel room, and police who had sought the reality...
TRIPOLI, Libya — The only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing returned home Thursday to a cheering crowd after his release from a Scottish prison — an outrage to many...
Initial results expected Sat
KABUL — Taliban threats appeared to dampen voter turnout in the militant south today when Afghans chose the next president for their deeply t...
A voter casts her ballot today at a polling center in Herat, Afghanistan. Afghans headed to the polls to elect a new president for just the second time in the country's ...
