BAGHDAD, Iraq - Fearing an uprising in support of embattled insurgents in Fallujah, the Iraqi government rushed reinforcements to the key city of Mosul after police fled...
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands - At least 5,500 residents of St. Croix, the largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, have signed a petition asking Congress to make the...
Crowd carried coffin to grave
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Yasser Arafat was laid to rest in a marble-and-stone grave today after his flag-draped coffin was borne through a sea ...
FALLUJAH, Iraq - American forces pushed deeper into the southern reaches of Fallujah, cornering militants backed into smaller pockets of the city. Hundreds of men trying...
Abbas elected PLO chairman
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Mahmoud Abbas, a former prime minister and a veteran peace negotiator, was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation O...
FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. warplanes and artillery bombarded southern parts of Fallujah where troops were trying to squeeze Sunni fighters in a smaller and smaller cordon tod...
Leader dies in hospital after long struggle
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Yasser Arafat, revered as the beacon of Palestinian statehood but reviled as a sponsor of terrorism, die...
People, jobs leave for west
GOERLITZ, Germany - Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the lovingly restored houses, squares and churches in this medieval town ...
10 American troops killed
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - American forces bottled up guerrillas in a narrow strip of Fallujah's alleys and streets today after a stunningly swift ad...
Rebels threaten to behead them
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two members of the Iraqi prime minister's family were abducted from their Baghdad home, his spokesman said today, and milit...
