KABUL, Afghanistan - Three Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail during a freelance counterterror mission went on trial today, with their ringleader d...
U.S. death toll reaches 900
BAGHDAD, Iraq - New online statements by purported militants threatened attacks against three U.S. allies - Poland, Japan and Bulgaria - if th...
Lawmaker shot in West Bank
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today ordered an investigation into the shooting of a key critic of his unrelenting grip...
Israeli says Jews unsafe in France
PARIS - President Jacques Chirac called on the Israeli prime minister to explain his remarks urging French Jews to leave their country,...
Philippines pulls troops out early
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Filipino truck driver held hostage in Iraq for nearly two weeks was freed today, a day after his nation withdrew its ...
NARITA, Japan - The Japanese government is preparing to deport American chess legend Bobby Fischer for staying in this country on an invalid passport, immigration offici...
But he's angry over his lack of authority
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia withdrew his resignation at Yasser Arafat's insistence today, a Cabinet minist...
Ex-soldier seeks care in hospital
TOKYO - A former U.S. soldier accused of defecting to North Korea nearly 40 years ago rested in a Tokyo hospital today, while many Japan...
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Backing down in the face of widespread protests, Yasser Arafat replaced his cousin as Palestinian security chief Monday and asked the former chief ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, center, escorted by two members of the Bedouin honor guard, arrives today at the Marka military base in Amman, Jordan. Alliwi began his...
