A month after an Afghan reporter for the BBC was killed during a Taliban attack, reports from local media that it was actually US forces who killed Omed Khpulwak gained a bit more credence. A locally based research group released a report last week that points to the...
Gunmen burst into a casino in Monterrey, Mexico, Thursday night, spraying the carpets with gasoline and setting it on fire. 53 were killed and the death toll is expect to rise. Drug cartels in Mexico's violence-plagued north often threaten business owners for...
As rebels rush into Tripoli and the imminent collapse of the 42-year Gadhafi regime approaches, much about Libya's future remains up in the air. Though it's been insisted for months that there would never be US "boots on the ground" in Libya, an administration known...
A suicide blast in the war-torn Khyber region of Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt killed 50 and wounded over 100 at a mosque during Friday prayers. No group has taken responsibility for the attack, but the government blames Pakistani Taliban. Most of the dead were...
President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton today called for Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to step down after months of bloody crackdowns on peaceful protesters that have killed as many as 2,000 people. Clinton also announced even harsher sanctions on Syria....
A minibus filled with Afghan civilians on their way to shop at a local market in western Herat province ran over a roadside bomb Thursday morning, killing 22 and wounding many. About half the victims were children under five years old. The incident underscores the...
Seven are dead and dozens wounded in a seemingly coordinated series of attacks on soft military targets in southern Israel, a normally quiet area of the country. Israeli politicians were quick to blame Egypt's lax authority. They also pinned the attacks on militants...
American officials don't often reference the CIA's pilotless bombing program in Afghanistan and Pakistan, save for the occasional joke. It took "salty" new Pentagon chief Leon Panetta to bring it up in defense of the strategy of tossing bombs at suspected enemies,...
A bloody Afghanistan August continued Tuesday as three attacks killed 10 across the country. A motorcycle bomb killed eight at a vegetable market in Uruzgan province at iftar time, when Muslims break their daily Ramandan fasts. An official also said dozens were...
In a month that's seen the largest single death toll in an attack on occupying troops, today was just another day in violence-wracked Afghanistan. Four guards were killed at NATO's Kandahar Air Field when militants blew up a minivan packed with explosives. The base...
