KABUL, Afghanistan — A top Taliban military commander described as a close associate of Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar was killed in an airstrike this we...
Defense chief gleans input during visit
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today that he hopes to give a report to President Bush this weekend on what he...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the rest of the Bush administration may be undecided on whether to send more troops to Iraq, but several soldiers he m...
BAGHDAD — New Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Baghdad today, armed with a mandate from President Bush to help forge a new Iraq war strategy. He made the unanno...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's army has "opened its doors," the prime minister said Saturday, appealing to troops who served under Saddam Hussein for help in curbing the rampant...
UNITED NATIONS — South Korea's Ban Ki-moon was sworn in Thursday as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations, promising to make his top priority the restoratio...
British police release report
LONDON — A British police inquiry released today concluded that the deaths of Princess Diana and her boyfriend in a 1997 Paris car crash wer...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Two car bombs targeting day laborers looking for work exploded within seconds of each other today on a main square in central Baghdad, killing at least 5...
SANTIAGO, Chile — Some in Chile celebrated with champagne but for others, there was no joy in the death of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, only the sense of a final injustice com...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Islamic militants may be in charge, but that doesn't mean there won't be Christmas this year.
The cash-strapped Hamas government is promising $50,...
