As fighting rages, Powell makes unannounced visit to Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Marines backed by fighter jets fought a fierce battle with insurgents in Fallujah today, kill...
CAIRO, Egypt - A little-known militant group threatened to attack any Arab country that sends troops to help stabilize Iraq, hours after the leaders of several nations i...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - On a Sunday afternoon, attendance at mass at St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral in Baghdad was decidedly thin.
A handful of Syrian Orthodox loitered on the s...
But officials say attacks possible
WASHINGTON - The United States so far has escaped the kinds of suicide bombings that have plagued countries across the Middle East, lea...
OSLO, Norway - A 4-year-old boy caused chaos at a Norwegian airport when he crawled on a luggage conveyor belt and rode it like a merry-go-round.
Ingvild Aakervik was ch...
Iraq bombing toll rises to 70
BAQOUBA, Iraq - The insurgent group of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi kidnapped a Somali truck driver in Iraq and threatened to beh...
KABUL, Afghanistan - The relief agency Medecins Sans Frontieres said today it is pulling out of Afghanistan, discouraged about a fruitless investigation into the slaying...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomb exploded outside a police recruiting center in central Baqouba today, killing 68 Iraqis and turning the city's busy streets into a blo...
Freed diplomat returns to work
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A senior Egyptian diplomat returned to work today, a day after being released by militants, while a Baghdad mortar barrage ...
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia retracted his resignation today, ending a two-week standoff with Yasser Arafat that raised profound questio...
