GAZA CITY, Gaza — Israel ordered a pause in its Gaza offensive for three hours today to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and a government spokesman sa...
GAZA CITY, Gaza — Israeli forces edged closer to Gaza's major population centers today and attacked new sites, including a U.N. school, claiming more civilian lives afte...
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...
