GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel consolidated its hold on parts of the Gaza Strip today, seizing high-rise buildings on the outskirts of the territory's biggest city as a ...
WASHINGTON — Washington bureaucrats have a reputation for being able to spend taxpayer money real fast. But, believe it or not, spending it fast enough is one of the big...
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban has long exaggerated its military successes, but its figures for 2008 may be the militia's most startling claims yet. The Taliban claims...
LISBON, Portugal — A Portuguese woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born and was believed to have been the world's oldest person died on Friday ...
Woman failed to heed warnings
BAGHDAD — American soldiers shot and wounded a woman — identified by an Iraqi television station as one of its producers — after she failed ...
But cease-fire now possible
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli warplanes and gunboats blasted more than two dozen Hamas targets Saturday, including weapons storage facilitie...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel demanded international monitors as a key term of any truce with Gaza militants, as its warplanes bombed the parliament building in Gaza Ci...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian militants, armed with deadlier missiles than ever before, kept up rocket assaults on Israeli border communities today, despite relent...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's army chief stressed Monday the need to "avoid conflict" with India, days after he began moving troops toward the rivals' shared border a...
Death toll rises to 315
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel's air force obliterated symbols of Hamas power on the third day of its Gaza assault today, striking next to the Ham...
