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...
Ex-enemies bond to live
EASTERN SAHARA DESERT, Egypt — Ex-Israeli fighter pilot Gil Fogiel rarely talked about being a prisoner of war in Syria until he sat across a camp...
JERUSALEM — Israel today confirmed its first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
In a statement on its Web site, the Agriculture Ministry said the flu had be...
7 police die, 10 bodies are found
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Suspected insurgents marked the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq today with roadside bombings that kil...
Series of speeches tout progress
WASHINGTON — After three years of war in Iraq, President Bush is trying to get Americans to look beyond the unrelenting violence that dom...
Campaigners call for pullout
SYDNEY, Australia — Anti-war demonstrators held rallies across the globe Saturday to protest the war in Iraq as campaigners marked the third ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — New fighting flared north of Baghdad on Saturday, as a joint U.S.-Iraqi force scoured the countryside elsewhere in the Sunni Muslim heartland in the thir...
