Howard Witt

After nearly two months of closed-door negotiations, the United States formally proposed Wednesday that the UN Security Council pass a tough new resolution compelling Iraq to allow stringent weapons inspections...

Congress is expected to hand President Bush a substantial, bipartisan victory Thursday, authorizing him to use military force against Iraq to rid it of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons materials....

With President Bush already dismissing the likelihood that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will comply with a new demand to allow weapons inspections inside Iraq, the administration will move aggressively in...

With the first U.S. agricultural and food trade fair opening here next month, the Americans are looking to make a big impression on Cubans at a time when the Bush...

Secretary of State Colin Powell met briefly with the North Korean foreign minister Wednesday morning at the Southeast Asian summit. The meeting was the first high-level contact between the Bush...

Declaring Israel a nation at war, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the army to widen its West Bank offensive Sunday after a Palestinian bomber killed 15, including himself, at a...

Expanding its cooperation with Iraqi dissident groups that it has sometimes held at arm's length, the Bush administration announced Thursday that it would support a broad-based conference of Iraqi exiles...

Pakistan and India were poised for military confrontation this weekend, with hundreds of thousands of troops facing off along their border before a crucial speech by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf....

India and Pakistan put missiles on alert and dispatched more troops to their 1,800-mile border Wednesday, but U.S. officials said they did not believe the two nuclear-armed antagonists were on...