By Dion Nissenbaum -
Tuesday, January 6 2009 - 12:00 am
JERUSALEM French President Nicolas Sarkozy and a European delegation Monday pleaded for Israel to call a temporary halt to its 10-day-old offensive in Gaza, but top Israeli leaders, with the explicit backing of President George W. Bush, made it clear that they aren't ready to end the fighting.
By Dion Nissenbaum and Ahmed Abu Hamda -
Tuesday, December 30 2008 - 12:00 am
JERUSALEM The Israeli military extended its air campaign in the Gaza Strip on Monday, and the nation's defense minister warned that the country is in "war to the bitter end against Hamas" and allied militants, who control the Palestinian territory.
By Dion Nissenbaum -
Monday, December 29 2008 - 3:14 am
JERUSALEM Israel on Sunday began preparing for a possible ground offensive into the Gaza Strip as its air force continued to pummel the Hamas-controlled region with dozens of new missile strikes in an operation that has killed nearly 300 Palestinians in two days.
By David Goldstein -
Tuesday, November 18 2008 - 12:00 am
WASHINGTON Gulf War illness is a real medical condition that has affected at least 175,000 combat veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf war, according to a report released Monday.
By Warren P. Strobel -
Tuesday, November 18 2008 - 12:00 am
WASHINGTON A year after problems emerged in the construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, another State Department post being built largely by the same Kuwaiti-based company is engulfed by delays, recriminations and an inspector general's probe, according to U.S. officials.
By Jonathan S. Landay -
Tuesday, November 18 2008 - 12:00 am
WASHINGTON An American Muslim subjected to several years of intense FBI scrutiny and questioning about links to terrorism has been held without charges, access to a lawyer or contact with his family for nearly three months by the security services of the United Arab Emirates.
By Leila Fadel -
Tuesday, November 4 2008 - 12:00 am
BAGHDAD The Iraqi parliament approved legislation Monday that allocates six seats in provinces to small ethnic and religious communities in the upcoming provincial elections, but Christians, Yazidis and Shabaks asked for the law to be overturned on the grounds that they remained underrepresented.
By Jonathan S. Landay and Nancy A. Youssef -
Tuesday, October 28 2008 - 12:00 am
WASHINGTON A CIA-led raid on a compound in eastern Syria killed an al-Qaida in Iraq commander who oversaw the smuggling into Iraq of foreign fighters whose attacks claimed thousands of Iraqi and American lives, three U.S. officials said Monday.
By Saeed Shah -
Tuesday, September 16 2008 - 12:00 am
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistani troops opened fire Monday on U.S. forces who were trying to enter the country's lawless tribal area, local officials said. The report, if accurate, would mark a dangerous further deterioration in relations between the allies in the war on terrorism.
By Jonathan S. Landay -
Tuesday, September 16 2008 - 12:00 am
WASHINGTON Iranian stonewalling has stalled a U.N. investigation into whether Iran conducted nuclear weapons research, according to a new U.N. nuclear watchdog report that for the first time raised the possibility that foreign experts may have assisted in Iranian nuclear experiments.
By John Ellis -
Monday, September 1 2008 - 12:00 am
FRESNO Central Valley gang enforcers are using a new weapon: deportation orders.
By Leila Fadel -
Tuesday, August 26 2008 - 12:00 am
BAGHDAD Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday there would be no security agreement between the United States and Iraq without an unconditional timetable for withdrawal a direct challenge to the Bush administration, which insists the timing for troop departure would be based on conditions on the ground.
By Jonathan S. Landay -
Tuesday, August 5 2008 - 12:00 am
WASHINGTON World powers agreed Monday to toughen U.N. sanctions against Iran after Tehran failed to accept by the weekend deadline a proposal aimed at resolving the crisis over its nuclear program, the State Department said Monday.
By Leila Fadel -
Monday, July 28 2008 - 12:00 am
BAGHDAD The U.S. military said Sunday that the three people killed last month after U.S. soldiers shot at their car in one of the most tightly secured areas of Iraq were civilians, not criminals as the military initially reported.
By Saeed Shah -
Monday, July 7 2008 - 12:00 am
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan A suicide bomber marked the first anniversary of the military operation against Islamabad's radical Red Mosque by targeting police guarding the site, killing at least 15 people.
By Mohammed al Dulaimy -
Tuesday, June 24 2008 - 12:00 am
MADAIN, Iraq A U.S.-allied Iraqi city council member sprayed American troops with gunfire Monday, killing two soldiers and wounding three and an interpreter, Iraqi authorities and witnesses said. The attack occurred minutes after they emerged from a weekly joint meeting on reconstruction in this volatile town southeast of Baghdad.
By Tom Lasseter -
Monday, June 16 2008 - 12:00 am
WASHINGTON Although Defense Department officials deny that detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or in other American camps were routinely mistreated, official statements and court testimony undercut the claim:
By Shashank Bengali -
Tuesday, May 6 2008 - 12:00 am
BAGHDAD There's a place in this city, amid the snarled checkpoints and mazes of blast walls, where families still gather for picnics, teenage boys kick soccer balls, young couples canoodle furtively under trees and children bury their faces in cotton candy.
By Dorsey Griffith -
Tuesday, April 15 2008 - 12:00 am
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants Americans traveling to Israel to make sure they are immunized against measles.
Tuesday, April 15 2008 - 12:00 am
Chinese President Hu Jintao will get hundreds – or perhaps thousands – of postcards from Sacramento-area Buddhists and friends who are planning a peace rally Wednesday in the Rose Garden in Capitol Park.