CHAKLALA AIR BASE, Pakistan — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he doubts that Osama bin Laden is in position to assert full command over the al-Qaida terror networ...
Saddam much calmer today
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A noticeably calmer Saddam Hussein sat quietly in his defendant's chair at the resumption of his trial today, two weeks after he ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Sunni Arabs today challenged partial returns from Iraq's parliamentary elections, calling them a "falsification of the will of the people" and saying evi...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan inaugurated its first popularly elected parliament in more than three decades today, a major step toward democracy following the ouster ...
CAIRO, Egypt — An extremist group posted a video on a Web site today showing a man being shot in the back of the head, and the group claimed the victim was American advi...
Iraqi election shows need for coalition
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A leading Sunni politician said Friday his party would be open to an alliance with secular Shiites and Kurds to fo...
Iraqis didn't ID al-Qaida leader
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi security forces caught terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Fallujah area last year but released him because t...
Sunnis show up, cast votes
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Final results in Iraq's parliamentary election may not be known for two weeks, but early indications show the Shiite tickets do...
ATHENS, Greece — The Iranian president's widely condemned remarks about Israel and the Holocaust were "misunderstood" by Western governments, Iran's interior minister sa...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqis voted in a historic parliamentary election today, with strong turnout reported in Sunni Arab areas that had shunned balloting last January, bolste...
