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The images of desperate parents cradling exhausted children, despairing elderly slumped in wheelchairs, and irate youths spitting their invectives at an unblinking camera were too much to witness, and I turned ...

In the Garden of Armageddon They were Iraq's only real WMDs. The U.S. refused to secure them.

A California Army National Guard sergeant has been discharged and sentenced to a year in military ... Fimon, of San Diego County's Poway area, will lose a year's salary and be demoted to private.

The Marine Corps on Thursday unveiled new Humvee-mounted technology to allow troops in the field to communicate with each other, their commanders, and even headquarters hundreds of miles away - all while ...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Friday that if Iraqis can control the country's main cities and roads, there would be no need for American forces to remain for more than two more years.

The marriage proposal styles are changing in Saudi Arabia. No longer are spouse seekers restricted to traditional ways; they are making use - of matchmakers.2.7

Passengers of the Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight SV 781, on which a bomb hoax sparked a stampede at the Colombo International Airport on Thursday, arrived here in a special Saudia aircraft yesterday morning at ...2.7

Seldom has an image so clearly marked the turning of the world. One of man's mightiest structures collapses into an immense white blossom of churning, roiling dust, metamorphosing in 14 seconds from ...2.7

Estimates of the death toll from Hurricane Katrina have run as high as 10,000 but the actual body count so far is much lower and officials who feared the worst now hope the dire predictions were wrong.2.9

US and Iraqi forces have stepped up their offensive against rebels in the northern town of Tal Afar, while tightening security on the nearby Syrian border.2.7

Stephen Mumford has been showing in New York since the mid 1990s. Until recently he specialized in highly colored, semi-sensationalist, quasi-apocalyptic depictions of underwater nudes, submerged cars, and the ...1.3

Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state who told the United Nations that Saddam Hussein was concealing weapons of mass destruction, said yesterday that the assertion will always be a "painfulblot" on his ...2.7

The Israeli army has completed its evacuation of all its bases inside the Gaza Strip.2

The United Nations has called for urgent action to save the lives of asylum-seekers and migrants trying to flee Somalia on unsafe boats to Yemen.2.9

Shaba Street in the Baghdad suburb of Dora looked like any other residential road six months ago.2.7

Gen. Pervez Musharraf has won praise for tackling taboo issues in his Islamic nation.1.3

A California Army National Guard sergeant has been sentenced to a year in military prison for ... Fimon, of San Diego County's Poway area, will also lose a year's salary, be demoted to private and was given a bad-conduct discharge, meaning he will not be entitled to many veteran's benefits.

Former Defense Secretary and Sen. William Cohen is credited with the quip, "Government is the enemy until you need a friend." In the wake of Katrina, that may have to be amended, "and then your friend may turn ...

Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran became a surprise hit in 2003, and the paperback edition has spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list.1.3

BEIRUT: A recent study of the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp has identified a climbing ... Under the patronage of Social Affairs Minister Nayla Mouawad, a European Union-funded project has been completed encompassing social, educational and health care surveys regarding the status of Lebanon's 12 refugee camps.2.7

Bil'in is a small village. It has only 250 families and a population of 1,696. Located about five kilometers from the pre-1967 Green Line border, it is less that a kilometer from the settlement of Upper ...2.7

Associated Press Sept. 9, 2005 12:22 PM Eighty-four members of Phoenix' Urban Search and Rescue Team are back home from New Orleans.1.3

Audio for this story will be available at approx. 7:30 p.m. ET All Things Considered , September 9, 2005 In Baghdad, life behind razor wire and concrete barricades, guarded by watchtowers, often becomes ...

BEIRUT: Creativity and persuasion are very important in the advertising business.2.7

Doktas A.S Turkey's largest iron-casting operation will install Sintercast's System 2000 process control system for series production of compacted graphite iron.

The State of Qatar will proudly host this year's World Tourism Day on the 27th of September.

Recovery of the bodies of those killed in Hurricane Katrina began in earnest amid hopes that the final death toll may be far lower than initially feared.2.7

Surgical and infirmary equipment has arrived at the port of Aden from Saudi Arabia.2.7

WASHINGTON - September 9 - Senator Russ Feingold has called on the President to issue a flexible timeframe for the completion of the military mission in Iraq and has suggested December 31, 2006 as a target date ...

CAPTION: Principal Linda Schaffzin poses with art students and the chairs they've painted to beautify the Schechter school in Northbrook.1.3

Yemen is a country struggling with water shortage as it is situated in an arid region with no inland lakes or rivers.2.7

A U.S. Navy sailor from Mississippi stationed in the Persian Gulf learned his niece and mother had survived Katrina when he saw them pictured in this Red Cross advertisement on MSN.com. Thousands of miles from ...1.3

A 20-year-old Navy hospitalman from Arizona who was serving with the 2nd Marine Division near Baghdad has been killed in Iraq, authorities said.

By AARON B. COHEN Executive Editor Talk about elevating love of Israel to an art form, and you're talking about Skokie resident Jerry Mann.

"The NATO alliance is ready to do its part in the diminishing of the human suffering," NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said.1.3