Helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans on Monday in the deadliest day for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in more than four years. The deaths came as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national security team for a sixth full-scale conference on the future of the troubled war. ...more

October 26, 2009

Salah al Jbory is in no mood to celebrate. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called on his countrymen to revel today to mark the ostensible departure of U.S. troops from Iraqi cities by the end of the month. ...more

June 29, 2009

Hernando County residents should wake up today to temperatures near 81. It might be a bit cloudy, but maybe the sun will peek out at intervals. ...more

December 25, 2008

Israel announced that it will cut off funding for illegal settlement outposts and crack down on extremist squatters, but settler leaders vowed Monday to resist the order and accused the government of fanning hatred toward them. ...more

November 4, 2008

The Food and Drug Administration will establish its first office in China before the end of the year as part of a broader plan to assure the safety of imports from the developing world. ...more

October 17, 2008

Insurgents armed with machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades mounted a fierce assault on a remote, relatively lightly manned U.S. outpost in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing nine American soldiers. ...more

July 14, 2008

Violence in Iraq is at its lowest level in four years, but ask Capt. Mike Forbes, and he will tell you his job as a troop commander in Baghdad has gotten harder, not easier. ...more

July 13, 2008

U.S. forces may be close to unlocking the mystery of who is behind a deadly innovation in Iraqi insurgents' weapons, a "lob bomb" now being used in Baghdad to target U.S. and Iraqi combat outposts, a senior American general said Friday. ...more

July 12, 2008

Bo Webster has spent virtually his entire life in sports, searching for different ways to challenge the ends of his endurance, often in a competitive environment. ...more

June 9, 2008

Rockets or mortars hit the U.S.-protected Green Zone early Saturday, just a day after powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army militia to extend its cease-fire by another six months. ...more

February 24, 2008