Patrick J. McDonnell

Iraqi insurgents pressed their assault on U.S. forces and their allies Thursday as two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their Baghdad house and three Marines were slain, bringing...

His Charlie Battery was dug in against about 50 insurgents, Capt. Matt Davenport remembers, and the volleys of rocket-propelled grenades and bursts of machine-gun fire were non-stop. At one point...

Senior Pakistani and American intelligence officials say the operational commander of Al Qaeda, the man who planned the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, narrowly avoided capture in a...