BAGHDAD, Iraq — A mortar barrage followed minutes later by a car bomb blasted Baghdad's upscale Karradah district today, killing at least 31 people and wounding 153, pol...
Allies disagree, call for cease-fire
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — With more than a dozen Asian nations expressing concern for escalating violence along the Lebanon-Israel bor...
TOKYO — Japan's health minister today announced the resumption of U.S. beef imports, ending a ban imposed in January due to concerns about mad cow disease.
Health Minist...
Offensive won't be expanded, they say
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israel pounded suspected Hezbollah positions across Lebanon today, extending its air campaign a day after sufferin...
No man's land would keep Hezbollah at bay
JERUSALEM — Israel wants to establish a strip a little more than a mile wide in south Lebanon that will be free of Hezbollah gue...
Hezbollah puts up fierce fight
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah inflicted heavy casualties on Israeli troops as they battled for a key hilltop town in southern Lebanon for a f...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A thinner but combative Saddam Hussein returned to court Wednesday for the first time since his hunger strike and hospitalization, complaining he had bee...
Sunni, Shiite groups terrorizing Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq — American troops are stepping up operations in the Baghdad area to combat death squads and dampen down the violenc...
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today the United States wants an "urgent and enduring" peace in the Middle East, where people can solve pr...
Village site of fierce fighting
NABATIYEH, Lebanon — Israeli troops sealed off a Hezbollah stronghold in fierce fighting in south Lebanon and warplanes struck this market...
