Al-Sistani issues 1st statement in months
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's top Shiite cleric called Saturday for Muslim unity and an end to sectarian conflict, his first public sta...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The military said it was investigating reports that a U.S. helicopter went down today, north of Baghdad.
Witnesses and police claimed that a helicopter h...
CANCUN, Mexico — He is called "Super Tonio," and at a whopping birth weight of 14.5 pounds, the little fellow is causing a sensation in this Mexican resort city.
Cancun ...
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez was granted free rein Wednesday to accelerate changes in broad areas of society by presidential decree — a move critics said p...
Violence mars holiest of days
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Assailants struck Shiite worshippers in three Iraqi cities today, killing at least 36 people in bombings and ambushes during...
300 militants are killed
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi officials said today that 300 militants were killed in a fierce battle between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and insurgents alle...
Attackers wore U.S. uniforms
BAGHDAD, Iraq — In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years of warfare, gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military...
A man brings a child wounded in a twin car bomb attack to al-Kindi hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday. Two car bombs in quick succession struck a market in a mainly Shi...
$10.6B sought from Congress
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The Bush administration plans to ask Congress for $10.6 billion for Afghanistan, a major increase aimed at rebuilding the ...
Al-Maliki says more planned
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's prime minister told parliament today Iraqi security sweep in the capital would not be the last battle against militants...
