Militias seize cities; foreign hostages taken
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shiite Muslim militias held partial control Thursday over three southern Iraqi cities, while Sunni insurgent...
Pope has busy schedule for Holy Week
VATICAN CITY - Security has been heightened in the last few months at the Vatican over concerns that the heart of Roman Catholicism c...
Burials part of ceremonies
KIGALI, Rwanda - Survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda buried today the remains of hundreds of victims recovered from pit-latrines and mass...
At least 30 GIs, 150 Iraqis killed
FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. Marines in a fierce battle for this Sunni Muslim stronghold fired rockets that hit a mosque filled with people to...
FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. troops battled guerrillas today on the edges of Fallujah, where hundreds of Marines and Iraqi troops have surrounded one of Iraq's most violent cit...
Dozens killed in fighting
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The top U.S. administrator in Iraq declared a radical Shiite cleric an "outlaw" today after his supporters rioted in Baghdad and...
It says country will turn into 'inferno'
MADRID, Spain - An Islamic group that claims responsibility for the Madrid bombings says it will turn Spain "into an inferno" unl...
Anti-Semitism voiced openly
CAIRO, Egypt - Hanan Nsour, a veiled, 21-year-old Muslim in Jordan, came out of "The Passion of the Christ" in tears and pronounced her verdic...
Blast damages U.S. Humvee
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two attacks on Iraqi police south of Baghdad on Saturday left four people dead, officers said, in the latest of a string of atta...
ROME - Italian publishing giant Mondadori announced Wednesday it is negotiating worldwide rights for Pope John Paul II's new book, a recollection of his years as bishop ...
