Six months after the Obama administration announced its plan for Afghanistan, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff suggested in his reconfirmation hearing that more U.S. troops will likely be necessary.
Osama bin Laden said in a new audiotape that President Barak Obama's strategy in Afghanistan is ``hopeless'' and called on Americans to resolve the conflict with al Qaeda by ending the war there and breaking the U.S. alliance with Israel.
Iran sounded a tough note, but said it is `open to discussion' on its nuclear program in a general context.
Three British Muslims convicted of planning to blow up trans-Atlantic flights were given prison terms of at least 30 years. A fourth will get at least 22 years.
The runner-up in the Aug. 20 presidential election warns that Western publics are unlikely to tolerate a political outcome based on a fraudulent vote.
(AP) -- France Telecom SA was mobilizing all 20,000 of its managers Monday in an effort to respond to a string of 23 employee suicides that unions blame partly on layoffs and restructuring at the telecommunications giant.
Ilan Ramon's son died when his F-16 crashed. Ramon was killed in the space shuttle Columbia tragedy in 2003.
Pakistan has allowed a terrorist group to construct a compound that one security officer called a `center of terrorism.'
(AP) -- A civilian contractor was shot and killed Sunday on an American military base in the Iraqi city of Tikrit and a U.S. soldier has been detained in connection with the incident, the military said.
Iraqi journalist will be given a hero's welcome today after serving time for throwing his shoe at former President George W. Bush.
At least 50 Taliban fighters were reportedly killed during NATO air strikes following an insurgent ambush Saturday that killed three U.S. troops.
Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and American envoy George Mitchell will talk about Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The European Union has refused to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe until power-sharing and human rights concerns are addressed.
A U.N. report says human trafficking is thriving because its root causes are not addressed enough.
The father of South African running star Caster Semenya is outraged by published reports that she has hidden male sex organs.
An operation by U.S. Marines and Afghan troops goes horribly wrong -- and a reporter is caught inthe crossfire.
Some troops in Afghanistan say they aren't sure what their objectives are because the White House and Pentagon still haven't spelled them out.
The mother of a 13-year-old who hopes to become the youngest sailor to circle the globe solo broke her silence Saturday, saying the voyage was too dangerous and her daughter was ``not yet grown up'' enough.
The alleged rape of a girl at the hands of a U.S. officer on a Colombian military base has rekindled the anger and frustration of her mother, who also was raped 12 years ago and faces major hurdles in her quest for justice.
The Belgian government said Friday it would resettle a detainee now at the U.S. military prison camps at Guantánamo Bay who has already been cleared by a U.S. court.
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