Explosives found in Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants attacked security forces on two sides of Kabul, killing seven people in some of the deadliest attacks ne...
LISSA, Nigeria — Nigeria said Monday it had requested help from the United States to determine what caused an airliner to slam into the ground, killing all 117 people ab...
Sunnis fail to block passage
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's landmark constitution was adopted fairly by a majority of voters during the country's Oct. 15 referendum, as Sunni Ara...
U.S. death toll reaches 1,999
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — A suicide car bomb exploded near a regional government ministry in a predominantly Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah on ...
LISSA, Nigeria — Investigators searched the still-smoldering wreckage of a jetliner that slammed into the Nigerian bush, seeking flight-data recorders and other clues Mo...
Deadly virus has spread to Europe
LONDON — Britain confirmed its first case of bird flu since 1992, saying the virus that killed a parrot in quarantine is the same deadly...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Stepped-up attacks by insurgents over the last two days have killed at least 44 Iraqis, including 12 laborers — five of them brothers — who were gunned d...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's interim government said Saturday it will step up security for defense lawyers in Saddam Hussein's trial, after one was abducted and killed by gunm...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's supreme leader, long a critic of the United States, praised the U.S.-backed constitutional referendum in Iraq as "blessed" Friday and urged Iraqis ...
2 weeks pass without relief
GHANOOL, Pakistan — About 200 desperate people pushed and fought each other for milk, bread and biscuits brought in by mule train today — the ...
