A suspected U.S. missile killed seven people in a Taliban stronghold in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said, while a hard-line cleric rattled peace efforts elsewhere by demanding the government launch Islamic courts within two weeks. ...more

March 1, 2009

Suspected U.S. missiles slammed into a compound near the Afghan border Saturday, killing about 30 people, local officials said. Most of the dead were thought to be militants linked to the Taliban or al-Qaida. ...more

February 15, 2009

Two missile attacks launched from remotely piloted U.S. aircraft killed at least 15 people in western Pakistan on Friday. The strikes suggested that the strategy of using drones to kill militants inside Pakistan's own borders would continue under President Barack Obama. ...more

January 24, 2009

The war in Iraq has given the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice plenty to protest in the last five years. ...more

January 6, 2009

Frustrated by repeated dead ends in the search for Osama bin Laden, U.S. and Pakistani officials said they are questioning long-held assumptions about their strategy and are shifting tactics to intensify the use of the lethal Predator drone spy plane in the mountains of western Pakistan. ...more

September 10, 2008

TAMPA - On Christmas Eve, the network of radar stations established to detect bomber or missile attacks on the U.S. and Canada turns its technology to tracking the global progress of Santa. The military predecessor of the North American Air Defense Command started tracking Santa in 1955. ...more

December 24, 2007