GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Defiant Palestinian militants pounded Jewish settlements in the southern Gaza Strip with mortar fire today after the killing of a top Hamas milit...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Preparations for the crucial January election are "on track" and the absence of international observers due to the country's tenuous security should not ...
LONDON - Britain agreed today to meet a U.S. request for British troops to be moved into volatile central Iraq, a proposal that has met strong opposition within the gove...
TOKYO - Japan's deadliest storm in more than a decade unleashed flash floods that washed away entire hillsides, killing up to 54 people before it veered east into the Pa...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The highest ranking officer implicated in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal was sentenced to 8 years in prison for abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib during a cou...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The highest-ranking soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib scandal pleaded guilty today to five charges of abusing Iraqi detainees at the prison as a two-day ...
Family says no demands made
BAGHDAD, Iraq - CARE International suspended operations in Iraq today after gunmen seized the woman who ran the humanitarian organization's wo...
Blast injures 80 at Iraqi station
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad today killed four guardsmen and wounded 80 othe...
Americans buy meds over Net
TORONTO - Canadians must stop Americans from using Internet pharmacies to raid its medicine chest or face a drug shortage, a coalition of Cana...
Millions rely on food relief
MEKELE, Ethiopia — She was famine’s poster child — a 3-year-old Ethiopian girl snatched from death and gazing at the world through exhausted ...
