Major businesses are gunning for first dibs on Libya's natural resources as a new race to turn a profit out of the war-torn nation begins. Many business leaders, most with close connections to their respective governments, are planning to send representatives to...
Compared with a decade ago, the military is bigger, more closely connected to the CIA, more practiced at taking on terrorists and more respected by the American public. But its members also are growing weary from war, committing suicide at an alarming rate and...
International oil companies are preparing to resume exploration, drilling, and production in Libya after Monday's near collapse of the Gadhafi regime. Most of them withdrew their expatriate staffs when fighting began in February, but now note that most of Libya's oil...
Five Afghan civilians were killed Monday in an explosion that went off in a vegetable market in the southern province of Helmand, according to the provincial governor's office. This continues what has been a sharp spike in casualties in the first half of 2011. On...
President Barack Obama said Monday as Libyan rebels celebrated in Tripoli that Muammar Gadhafi's "rule is over" and that the rebels must build a democratic government through "peaceful, inclusive and just" measures. But Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, head of the rebel council...
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could represent juicy targets for budget cutters in Washington. But how much do the wars actually cost U.S. taxpayers? Nobody really knows. The war budgets are huge and complex. But Nancy Youssef at McClatchy Newspapers explains how...
Here in the sixth month of what was supposed to be a few days of NATO’s war in Libya, it seems Muammar Gadhafi may be on the verge of being ousted from power. The rebels have expanded their control of a number of cities and towns outside of the de facto rebel capital...
Gaza militants agreed to a ceasefire with Israel, a Hamas official said Sunday, three days of violence from all sides. The Hamas official said militants in Gaza have agreed the truce would go into effect Sunday evening, in accordance with the deal brokered by Egypt....
Crowds of Egyptians protested at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo after Israel expressed regret over the killing of five Egyptian security personnel. Egypt condemned Israel in a statement after a second cabinet crisis meeting Saturday. "Egyptian blood is not cheap and the...
Israel apologized to Egypt Saturday for killing three Egyptian soldiers during a cross-border clash with Palestinian militants, hours after Cairo threatened to withdraw its ambassador to protest the killings. Israel, Gaza, and Egypt were embroiled in a series of...
