Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned a contempt hearing for Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani in a case that could push him from office and is adding to growing pressure on the unpopular civilian government.
A prime suspect in the Christmas Day bombings that killed more than 40 Nigerians in attacks aimed at Christian churches has escaped from police custody, officials said.
Pakistan has rejected U.S. special envoy Marc Grossman's request to visit the country, a senior official said on Wednesday, highlighting the increased tensions between the uneasy allies.
Rick Perry took a big bite out of Bret Baier's bait during Monday's South Carolina debate when he claimed that Turkey was run by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists.
All told, 600 people are believed to have been executed in Iran last year.
In a spirited debate last night in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Republican candidates went after both President Barack Obama and their GOP rivals on issues ranging from U.S. trade relations and the federal income tax to misleading attack ads and America's relationship with Turkey. But what statements were true, and what were false?
Republican presidential hopefuls attacked Mitt Romney's record in business and government on Monday and challenged him to release his tax returns, but the front-runner emerged largely unscathed from a South Carolina debate.
A soldier faced charges on Sunday at a hearing in Afghanistan for the death of Chinatown native Pvt. Danny Chen, who committed suicide allegedly due to bullying.
Child suicide bombers from Afghanistan say they were led to believe their bombs would obliterate only the infidel Americans and spare those executing the mission.
The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, the militant movement that poses the gravest security threat to the country, was believed killed by a U.S. drone strike, four Pakistan intelligence officials told Reuters Sunday.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, scrambling to keep his U.S. presidential bid alive, accused the Obama administration Sunday of overreacting to a videotape that shows four Marines appearing to urinate on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
The ancient enmity between Shia and Sunni Muslims exploded in violence again on Saturday in Iraq when a suicide bomb killed at least 50 Shia pilgrims and wounded almost 100 in the southeastern city of Basra, according to Iraqi police and security officials.
The U.S. Marine Corps took a first, formal step on Friday toward possible charges against four service members who, in a video widely circulated on television and the Internet, appear to be urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters.
Dana LoEsch, a CNN contributor and conservative radio host, said on her show that I'd drop trou and do it too. That's me, though. I want a million cool points for these guys.
A video appearing to show U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters promises to become an enduring memory of the Afghan war and is already drawing sharp reaction from across the world as it goes viral on the Internet.
Afghan farmers produced 6,400 tons of opium last year, versus 4,000 tons in 2010.
All four United States Marines caught on video urinating on the corpses of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have been identified.
A shocking video footage, first appeared online on Tuesday, showing four U.S. Marines urinating on three Taliban corpses, has created much controversy, forcing the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), the law enforcement arm of the Navy, to launch a probe on the matter.
India is about to hit a milestone in its battle to eradicate the polio virus with no new cases reported in the past year.
The U.S. government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars housing suspected terrorists in the military prison since 2002. So far, only six people have been convicted by a military commission.
At least two of the four Marines captured on an Internet video that appears to show them urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan have been identified, an official said Thursday.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt scored a pow-wow with President Obama and White House officials on Wednesday, bringing together three very famous Americans in the same room.
