Alex Rodriguez

In the first targeting of Iraq's tiny Christian community by the insurgency, 11 people died Sunday when five car bombs exploded outside churches filled with worshipers. In what appeared to...

An Iraqi militant group claimed on a Web site Saturday that it beheaded a U.S. Marine whom it had been holding hostage, which if confirmed would be the third decapitation...

The Iraq that the United States discovered when it invaded last year was more lawless, dilapidated and hostile than war planners predicted. So is the nation that the U.S. is...

Rebels intensified their assault on Iraq's economic lifeblood Wednesday, blasting a major pipeline severely enough to halt all oil exports for at least five days and killing the security chief...

At the time, the offer seemed reasonable. The Kremlin had arranged a trip to Siberia, ostensibly to give Western correspondents a window on Russian President Vladimir Putin at work, on...

A band of heavily armed Chechen guerrillas reportedly stormed a village in the neighboring Russian province of Dagestan on Monday, killing nine Russian border guards and taking four hostages. Though...

Under a searing midday sun, the track begins to stir with the flourish of a bugle on a recording that sounds as if it had been rubbed in sand before...

A world of New Years Turkey with the Turks--and other seasonal excuses for making the best of bad weather In almost every culture on the globe--and at various junctures, since...

Men dressed in black rhythmically beat themselves with chains to symbolize their grief and sorrow as Koran passages blared from loudspeakers. Women in full-length robes screamed in grief, while groups...

The bombing of the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad on Thursday confronts the 145,000 U.S. troops inside Iraq and their military leaders in Washington with a new, unwelcome security concern, suggesting...