RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Israel and the Palestinian Authority today said they fear al-Qaida terrorists will infiltrate into Gaza through the open Gaza-Egypt border, where Pal...
An Iraqi soldier secures the scene following an explosion in Baghdad today. At least 88 people were killed and 227 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle ne...
BERLIN - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pledged today that U.S. military forces "will continue to play a strong role" in Afghanistan even after NATO allies expand the...
Capital erupts in violence
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber struck as day laborers gathered to find work in a Shiite neighborhood in north Baghdad, killing at least 8...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland - A major outlawed Protestant group in Northern Ireland has abandoned its 11-year-old truce and is an enemy of the peace once again, Britain de...
Insurgents shelling area with mortars
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents shelled the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad early today, and U.S. and Iraqi commanders sa...
Gaza police lose control
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip - Palestinian police today blocked off abandoned Jewish settlements and chased after scavengers in a first attempt to im...
Crowds torch synagogues
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip - Ecstatic crowds of Palestinians flooded into empty Jewish settlements early today, setting abandoned synagogues on fire...
Militants flee through tunnels
TAL AFAR, Iraq - Insurgents melted into the countryside through a network of tunnels to escape an Iraqi-U.S. force that reported killing ab...
FRANKFURT, Germany - The United States turned Thursday to its allies in NATO, which sent AWACS planes to patrol U.S. skies after the Sept. 11 attacks, to help bring in f...
