WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld denied on Tuesday that the United States is negotiating an end to war with Iraq.
KEY WEST, Fla. -- A Cuban Airlines plane hijacked by a man claiming to have two grenades landed safely at Key West International Airport on Tuesday and the man then surrendered, officials said.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Allied warplanes and missiles blasted targets in Baghdad overnight, including Iraq's Olympic headquarters, one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, and what was believed to be an Air Force officers club.
DOHA, Qatar -- U.S. troops shot and killed at least seven Iraqi civilians -- some of them children -- in a van at a checkpoint Monday in southern Iraq when the driver did not stop as ordered, U.S. Central Command said. The soldiers were from the 3rd Infantry Division, which lost four soldiers Saturday at another checkpoint when an Iraqi soldier dressed as a civilian detonated a car bomb in a suicide attack.
WASHINGTON -- What the Supreme Court says this year in its most significant ruling about race in a generation probably depends on just one or two of the court's nine members.
U.S.-led troops fought pitched battles with Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard within 50 miles of the capital Monday as coalition warplanes pounded the city and dozens of other Iraqi positions in advance of the battle for Baghdad. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in fierce fighting for control of the south-central city of Najaf.
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea has asked Japan to help bring North Korea to multilateral talks to defuse tension over the communist country's suspected nuclear weapons programs, the presidential office said Monday.
WASHINGTON -- President Bush highlights his request for more money for wartime domestic security by focusing on the accomplishments of the U.S. Coast Guard, now on its highest alert since World War II.
Allied soldiers inched toward Baghdad on Sunday and pressed their campaign on a southern redoubt of Saddam Hussein loyalists, trying at every turn to gain trust from Iraqi citizens and stay safe from those who may be combatants in disguise. The military campaign has increasingly become a confidence-building one, too, and not only in Iraq. U.S. war leaders, deployed on the Sunday airwaves, defended their strategy as a sound one and cast the painstaking pace of recent days as a virtue.
BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- An ambush that killed two American servicemen is a sign rebel activity is increasing in Afghanistan following the start of the war in Iraq, an Army spokesman said Sunday.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein set up a system giving his most trusted lieutenants and local tribal leaders the power to mount a guerrilla campaign or other military measures without waiting for his orders.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. troops are ready to launch a major assault against Iraqi Republican Guard forces protecting Baghdad, but the commanding general may wait for pressure to build on Saddam Hussein before striking, war planners said Sunday.
THURMONT, Md. -- President Bush and top war ally British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged Thursday to keep their forces in Iraq however long it takes to overthrow Saddam Hussein. They also agreed on a role for the United Nations in a postwar Iraq. "We have one objective in mind -- victory," Bush said.
American-led forces bombed Iraqi targets and battled troops across Saddam Hussein's slowly shrinking domain Thursday, battering the regime's communications and command facilities in Baghdad. U.S. officials began sending reinforcements to the region and reported 25 Marines wounded after a friendly fire incident around An Nasiriyah.
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld held out hope Thursday that the Shiite population in Baghdad opposed to President Saddam Hussein would stage an uprising against the regime, without the need for U.S.
TANEGASHIMA, Japan -- Japan rocketed two spy satellites into space from this remote island Friday, giving it orbiting eyes to monitor North Korea's missile and suspected nuclear weapons programs.
Army airborne forces parachuted into northern Iraq on Wednesday, seizing an airfield for a new front against Saddam Hussein. U.S. and British warplanes bombed an enemy convoy fleeing the besieged city of Basra in the south.
WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York City shoeshine boy who became an iconoclastic scholar-politician and served four terms in the Senate, died Wednesday. He was 76.
BEIJING -- The World Health Organization for the first time has linked a pneumonia outbreak in China to a mystery flu-like illness that has hit other countries on three continents.
MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- President Bush said Wednesday the war in Iraq is far from over and warned that coalition forces will face "the most desperate elements of a doomed regime" as they close in on Baghdad.
