NEW DELHI, Dec. 2, 2008 (Reuters) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was flying to New Delhi on Tuesday to try to ease tension between India and Pakistan that has surged over the Mumbai attacks and put at risk U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the region. ... > full story
LANDI KOTAL, Pakistan, Dec. 2, 2008 (Reuters) Militants set off a roadside bomb in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday as trucks supplying Western forces in Afghanistan were passing by, wounding three people, a government official and witnesses said. ... > full story
MINGORA, Pakistan, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) A suicide car-bomber killed eight people on Monday in an attack aimed at a military checkpost in northwest Pakistan's Swat Valley, military officials said. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) Blasts at Baghdad's police academy and in the northern city of Mosul killed 30 people and wounded dozens more on Monday, hours after a roadside bomb wounded a senior Iraqi official, police said. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) Blasts at Baghdad's police academy and in the northern city of Mosul killed 29 people and wounded dozens more Monday, hours after a roadside bomb wounded a senior Iraqi official, police said. ... > full story
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) A suicide bomber killed eight civilians and two policemen in an attack on a police convoy in a crowded bazaar in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Monday, the local police chief said. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) The U.N. envoy to Iraq said on Sunday that militants will try but will fail to disrupt the country's provincial elections on January 31. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) The Iraqi army unearthed 30 decomposed bodies in a series of shallow graves in northern Iraq's volatile Diyala province, the army said on Saturday. ... > full story
DUBAI, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) Al Qaeda's second-in-command said in an Internet video the U.S. financial crisis was caused by Washington's military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan and taxpayers were paying the price. ... > full story
ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) Ethiopia said on Friday it would withdraw its troops from Somalia by the end of this year, piling pressure on Somalia's feuding government and African nations that had promised to send peacekeepers. ... > full story
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NATO assures Pakistan no violation of its territorial border Dec. 2, 2008 (Pak Tribune, Pakistan) NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has assured Pakistan that NATO forces would not violate Pakistan's territorial border. In a special ...
NPR journalist, Iraqis escape car bomb Dec. 1, 2008 (ABC 26 New Orleans (WGNO)) Iraq is still a dangerous place, something we tend to forget because of the marked decline in violence there relative to two and three years ago. ...
Iraqi parliament approves US security... Nov. 27, 2008 (ABC 6 Philly (WPVI)) Iraq's parliament has approved a security pact with the United States that lets American troops stay in the country for three more years. . . The ...