KABUL (AFP) - Mullah Mohammad Omar, leader of Afghanistan's Taliban militia, on Wednesday rejected a call from President Hamid Karzai for peace talks, in a statement issued ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

Gaza City/Jerusalem/Damascus - A delegation of top Hamas leaders from the Gaza Strip was in Syria Wednesday to consult with the Palestinian Islamist movement's exiled leadership over whether to accept Israel's latest offer for a prisoners swap. The d...

MARQUETTE - The past year has been a long one for many in the U.S. because of tough economic times. But for Sgt. Dan DeRoche, it was really long. DeRoche, 26, a 2001 graduate of Gwinn High School, returned to the Upper Peninsula on Tuesday morning from a nearly year-long deployment with the Calumet- and Baraga-based 1431st Sapper Company.

Baerbel Hacke has spent her life looking forward, but with Monday marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she’s going to spend some time looking back.

This time next week Americans will have a clearer picture of the nation's future in Afghanistan.

Silverton Standard editor Mark Esper is one of ten contestants for a column in the Washington Post as part of a contest that newspaper is holding to find America’s next great pundit.

Three weeks after 13 people were shot and killed at Fort Hood, Texas, new details are emerging about an Army Reserve captain who died trying to fight off the gunman before police arrived.Investigators are still sorting out the actions of Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, a psychiatric nurse. But according to varying eyewitness accounts, Gaffaney either picked up a chair and threw it at Army psychiatrist ...

Children from all over Iowa are affected by the Department of Defense’s announced deployment of 3,500 Iowa National Guard Soldiers for duty in Afghanistan, scheduled for fall 2010. And, this is not the first time many of these children will experience the deployment of their parent, sibling or other family member, says Chris Gleason, project director for Iowa State University Extension 4-H’s ...

An interview with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Mullah Omar, leader of the Afghan Taliban, has rejected peace overtures from Hamid Karzai, the country's president, and again demanded that foreign troops leave the country.