Pakistan, militants close to accord
The Pakistani government is close to an agreement with the most militant tribes in its turbulent border area, whose main leader is accused of orchestrating the majority of the suicide...
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Pakistani justice: I was pressed to resign
Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, the suspended chief justice of Pakistan, said Tuesday in a signed affidavit to the Supreme Court that on March 9 he was detained and pressed to resign...
Bodies of 2 Navy SEALs found
U.S. forces have recovered the bodies of two members of a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance team that was reported missing last week after coming under hostile fire in a mountainous...
17 GIs feared killed in Afghanistan
The apparent downing of a military helicopter with 17 Americans aboard in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday comes at a time of growing insecurity here. For the first time since the...
U.S. attack on Afghan caves exposed Taliban base
A day after U.S. forces killed at least 18 Taliban fighters in clashes near here, more than 300 American soldiers scoured a sprawling complex of 160 caves and hide-outs Wednesday...
Prison conditions raise eyebrows
In the month since the collapse of the Taliban government, nearly 3,500 of its former fighters have been held at a local prison built for 800, under conditions that are...
Fortress awash with bodies of Taliban
With the mud walls of this 19th Century fort shell-pocked and still smoldering from three days of battle, Northern Alliance soldiers Wednesday picked over the bodies of more than 150...
Croatia roiled by extradition furor
Croatia's Western-leaning government found itself confronting collapse and potential civil unrest Sunday after it decided to send two of its citizens to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague....
YUGOSLAV RIVALS STUMP WITH SLURS, PROMISES
With the presidential election only days away, the two main rivals held competing rallies Wednesday night, speaking as if to two separate nations, with President Slobodan Milosevic taking up the...
KOSOVO THUGGERY WIDENS, OFFICIALS SAY
Kosovar Albanians have become increasingly aggressive in their attacks not only against Serbs in this battered province but also against Gypsies and members of other ethnic minorities, according to foreign...