BAGHDAD, Iraq — British and Australian forces handed over security duties for a relatively peaceful southern province to Iraqis on Thursday in the first such transfer of...
Beirut airport hit by planes
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israel intensified its attacks against Lebanon today, blasting Beirut's international airport and the southern part of the ...
Says they have right to defense
STRALSUND, Germany — President Bush said today that Israel has the right to defend itself, as it launched fresh attacks on Lebanon after t...
Blasts kill 183, hurt hundreds
BOMBAY, India — Indian investigators today combed through the twisted and torn wreckage of train cars for clues as to who set off well-coor...
BAGHAD, Iraq — Gunmen stormed a bus station northeast of Baghdad today, seizing 24 people and killing all but four of them, authorities said. An Iraqi general said the v...
ROME — The Italian government and its intelligence services were not aware of and did not participate in the alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan, a Def...
2 soldiers killed for rape, slayings
BAGHDAD, Iraq — An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video today purporting to show the mutilated bodies of two U.S. soldiers, claim...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The defense began closing arguments in the trial of Saddam Hussein today, but most of the lawyers boycotted the court because of the slaying last month o...
Terror arrests show change
NEW YORK — No one can know for sure whether an al-Qaida loyalist had what it took to follow through on a suspected plot to bomb Hudson River tr...
Runners are chased by a pack of fighting bulls during a bull run through the streets of Pamplona, northern Spain, on Saturday. Spain's most famous fiesta, the San Fermin...
