Man calls captivity in Iraq 'black hole'
TORONTO — A Canadian held hostage in Iraq for four months before being rescued by U.S. and British forces reunited with his famil...
But future marred by more killings
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's president issued a highly optimistic report Friday on progress among politicians trying to hammer out the shape ...
Trial stirs up Western outrage
KABUL, Afghanistan — Senior Muslim clerics demanded Thursday that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be execu...
2 Americans are in group
VATICAN CITY — In an elaborate ceremony filled with symbolism, Pope Benedict XVI installed his first group of cardinals today, promoting 15 prela...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — American and Iraqi troops swept the oil-rich region of Kirkuk for suspected insurgents and captured dozens, while drive-by shootings, roadside bombings a...
TOKYO — A U.S. military civilian employee was sentenced to nine years in prison for two rapes on Okinawa, court officials and media reports said today.
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An Iraqi man throws water to douse a fire in his shop following a car bomb explosion today outside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Baghdad, Iraq. Two separate car bomb explosi...
Men were held for 4 months
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. and British troops today freed three Christian peace activists in rural Iraq without firing a shot, ending a four-month ho...
GENEVA — The human death toll from the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu reached 103 after five people died from the disease in Azerbaijan, the World Health Organization sa...
Some say U.S. forces in Iraq long term
BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq — The concrete goes on forever, vanishing into the noonday glare, 2 million cubic feet of it, a mile-long slab...
