EL FASHER, Sudan — African peacekeepers were searching for more than 20 members of their force still missing and feared wandering the wilderness of Darfur today after re...
MOSCOW — The former world chess champion Garry Kasparov entered Russia's presidential race on Sunday, elected overwhelmingly as the candidate for the country's beleaguer...
MOSCOW — When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort...
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan — While the U.S. has been tied up in Iraq, China is modernizing its military and its air defenses are now nearly impenetrable to all but the newes...
YANGON, Myanmar — Soldiers fired automatic weapons into a crowd of anti-government protesters today as tens of thousands defied the ruling military junta's crackdown wit...
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Vilified by world leaders wary of his nuclear ambitions, Iran's president is turning to South American leftists who are embracing him as an energy and ...
Civilians hired for many different jobs
It's the other army. The private one, perhaps 160,000 strong in Iraq alone, armed, sometimes dangerous, often sloppy with tax doll...
BAGHDAD — A U.S. soldier pleaded not guilty today to charges of killing Iraqis and trying to cover it up by planting weapons on their bodies.
Spc. Jorge G. Sandoval, of ...
He says sanctions by U.N. are illegal
UNITED NATIONS — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told world leaders his country will defy any further U.N. Security Council re...
GENEVA — Eight more cases of Ebola have been identified in Congo, raising to 17 the number of people confirmed to have contracted the deadly illness, the World Health Or...
