KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban vowed revenge today after at least one American soldier shot to death 16 civilians in southern Afghanistan and burned their bodies, an attack that has fueled anger still simmering after U. S. troops burned Qurans last month. U. S.- led forces in Afghanistan have stepped up security following the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The decade- long war in Afghanistan has spiraled into a series of U.S. missteps and violent outbreaks that have left few ardent political supporters. After NATO detained a U.S. soldier Sunday for allegedly killing sleeping Afghan villagers, Republicans and Democrats alike pointed to the stress on troops after years of fighting and […]

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip ( AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed two Palestinian militants and a schoolboy in the Gaza Strip today as Palestinian rocket squads barraged southern Israel in escalating fighting that has defied international truce efforts. The cross-border violence, touched off by Israel’s killing of a top militant leader on Friday, has been the […]

NEW ORLEANS ( AP) — One is a low-lying river city built on a swamp basin, a multicultural melting pot known the world over for legendary excesses, from lungsearing food to French Quarter flashers. The other lies square in the buckle of the Bible Belt, an old Tornado Alley railroad hub best known as a […]

MEXICO CITY ( AP) — Much like the late Osama bin Laden, the man the U.S. calls the world’s most powerful drug lord apparently has been hiding in plain sight. Mexican federal police nearly nabbed Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in a coastal mansion in Los Cabos three weeks ago, barely a day after U. S. […]