GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli warplanes pounded the homes of Hamas leaders, and ground troops edged closer to the Gaza Strip's densely populated urban center today, as...
Gaza offensive set to intensify
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli forces pounded dozens of targets and edged closer to Gaza City on Saturday while southern Israel came unde...
Talks set with Karzai, NATO
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday for talks with the country's leaders, as surging T...
Tanker freed after cash paid
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3...
WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney, warning against impulsive U.S. action in Iraq, said whether the struggling nation backslides into a cycle of violence partly dep...
UNITED NATIONS — Palestinian children are dying at a heavy rate in the Israeli-Hamas fighting — about one of every three persons killed, according to Gaza statistics.
As...
Airstrikes, rockets continue barrage
JERUSALEM — Israeli jets and helicopters bombarded Gaza today and Hamas responded with a barrage of rockets on two cities as both sid...
PARIS — Pirates freed 20 hostages aboard a Turkish freighter commandeered off the Somali coast, as nine captives on a French boat were released off southern Nigeria, the...
NEW DELHI — "We have three foreigners, including women," the gunman said into the phone.
The response was brutally simple: "Kill them." Gunshots then rang out inside the...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lights a candle today while attending the Orthodox Christmas service at a church in Petrozavodsk, northwestern Russia. Christmas fa...
