Cleric compares fight to Vietnam
KARBALA, Iraq - U.S. soldiers backed by tanks and helicopters battled fighters loyal to a radical cleric near a mosque in this holy city ...
KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military has opened an investigation into allegations that an Afghan police officer was stripped naked, beaten and photographed at a U.S. b...
U.S. officials advised him to leave Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An American civilian who was beheaded in a grisly video posted on an al-Qaida-linked Web site had been warned to ...
Athens troubles bring speculation about U.S.
plans
The question hasn't come up since President Carter angered the world and his nation's athletes by keeping the U.S. Oly...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian militants blew up an Israeli armored personnel carrier today, killing six Israeli soldiers in one of the fiercest battles in Gaza Cit...
Some personnel missing
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen attacked a U.S.-run civilian convoy in Iraq's western desert and some personnel were unaccounted for, U.S. officials said to...
VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia - Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov was buried today in his home village, a day after the Moscow-backed leader was killed by a bomb blast that cast Ru...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops demolished 13 Palestinian homes along a Gaza road today, after Palestinian gunmen ambushed Jewish settlers there during an outdoor...
President to visit besieged Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON - President Bush is standing by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as both men brace for the anticipated release of more pi...
10 die in Karachi during prayers
KARACHI, Pakistan - A powerful bomb exploded at a Shiite Muslim mosque packed with worshippers in this southern port city today, killing ...