The Obama administration may have announced its $700 million plan to help the Mexican government fight the powerful drug cartels, but the cartels have already geared up for a battle undergoing a "transition from the gansterism of traditional narco hit ...Read More
Today’s leaked documents shed no new light on the most oft-rehearsed of those charges – that he lied about, or exaggerated, the threat from Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. But they will make uncomfortable reading for the former prime minister ...Read More
This is a RUSH transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," November 20, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Watch "The O'Reilly Factor" weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! BILL O'REILLY, HOST: President Obama, ...Read More
KABUL—Khalid Khan stares through the dusty window pane, down across the rooftops of the capital, and wonders if they really know where he lives.
Once on the front lines of the international effort to rebuild Afghanistan, the black-bearded contractor now sits ...Read More
Richmond, Texas -- Michelle Wie is gone, putting all the attention on Lorena Ochoa's player of the year fight with Jiyai Shin at the LPGA Tour Championship.
Wie withdrew from the season-ending event Thursday because of a sprained left ankle, hours ...Read More
On the road they call the Highway of Heroes, this was a milestone nobody wanted to pass.
They had been here so many times before. Seen so many tears, witnessed so much public grief.
But when the Wiltshire market town of Wootton ...Read More
ZURICH - FIFA suspended Iraq from soccer because of political interference in the national federation. Soccer's world governing body says it is "unacceptable" for Iraq's Olympic committee to disband the federation this week for alleged financial and administrative irregularities. FIFA's emergency committee, ...Read More
It started as an impromptu mark of respect by one man and his wife, standing alone at the town's Cenotaph in tribute to the fallen soldier being driven through their town. That simple, poignant act sowed the seeds of what has ...Read More
SEOUL | President Obama's visit to South Korea on Thursday was unusual for an American president in that there were no major anti-American protests. A few dozen antiwar activists gathered in bustling downtown Seoul to pose for news photographers while protesting ...Read More
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a political survivor who has repeatedly reinvented herself, used her visit to Kabul to appeal to Hamid Karzai - a leader whose image lies in tatters - to seize a window of opportunity and ...Read More
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- At least 15 people were killed and31 were injured in a suicide bomb attack at a crowded bazaar inAfghanistan’s western Farah province. The bomber, who was on a motorcycle, blew himself up at 9a.m. when police tried ...Read More
Michelle Wie is gone, putting all the attention on Lorena Ochoa's player of the year fight with Jiyai Shin at the LPGA Tour Championship in Richmond, Texas. Wie withdrew from the season-ending event Thursday because of a sprained left ankle, hours ...Read More
(For more stories on the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan click [ID:nAFPAK] ISLAMABAD, Nov 20 (Reuters) - As the United States ponders its Afghan strategy, Pakistan is waiting nervously, worried that a U.S. troops surge would widen the war but also ...Read More
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip. On Saturday, two days after his return to Washington, the Senate plans a make-or-break vote on his hard-fought plan to overhaul the nation's ...Read More
The high court today flatly rejected claims by David Miliband, the foreign secretary, that releasing evidence of the CIA's inhuman and unlawful treatment of UK resident Binyam Mohamed would harm Britain's relations with the US by giving away intelligence secrets.
Evidence ...Read More
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Faced with an escalating insurgency, Pakistan increasingly views U.S. efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan as critical to its own security _ but is worried enough about the chances of American failure that it continues to hedge its ...Read More
Hamid Karzai has been sworn in as Afghan president for a second elected term. In his inauguration speech, he announced a conference to tackle corruption and a national gathering to help bring peace to Afghanistan.
Here, ordinary Afghans discuss the challenges ...Read More
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- In contrast to the tough summits he faced in China and Japan, U.S. President Barack Obama perhaps felt more at ease during his meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Thursday, reflecting bilateral relations ...Read More
KABUL (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is encouraged by Afghan President Hamid Karzai's pledge to battle corruption and get his security forces sufficiently trained to take the lead within five years. Clinton is in Kabul, ...Read More
KABUL -U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is encouraged by Afghan President Hamid Karzai's pledge to battle corruption and get his security forces sufficiently trained to take the lead within five years. Clinton is in Kabul, where she ...Read More
Iraq's parliament is to meet at the weekend to decide whether to amend a crucial election law vetoed by the vice-president.
Ayad al-Samarie, the parliamentary speaker, said MPs would meet on Saturday to discuss Tariq al-Hashemi's veto and could send it ...Read More
