ROME - Under heightened security that included airport-style metal detectors at the gates of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II used his Easter message on Sunday to plead fo...
KABUL, Afghanistan - Hundreds of Afghan and American soldiers are engaged in a new hunt for Osama bin Laden and other terror suspects in a mountainous region bordering P...
U.S. forces resume Fallujah offensive
FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. forces today regained control of a southern city seized this week by a rebellious Shiite militia, the military...
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...
