The head of the U.S. Central Command and former U.S. commander in Iraq, Army General David Petraeus, says progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan under President Barack Obama's new strategy will not be easy. General Petraeus, other military and Pentago...
For the past 2.5 years, two agriculture experts from the U.S. state of Texas have been working in remote areas of Afghanistan to help nomadic herders better manage their sheep, goats and cattle, and to better deal with ever-changing environmental co...
President Barack Obama met Wednesday with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and his special envoy for the Middle East, George Mitchell, who has just returned from his first official visit to the region, to discuss ways to bring stability to the Mid...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 16 February 2006 U.N. human rights investigators are calling for the immediate closure of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Sign at entrance of Camp Del...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 15 February 2006 Experts meeting in Brussels Wednesday and Thursday are promoting a series of measure to fight the spread of bird flu in the European Union. The meeting comes as n...
By Jim Malone 11 January 2006 Opposition Democrats expect to make gains in congressional elections later this year in part because of a corruption scandal involving once-powerful Republican lobbyist J...
Steve Baragona Experts have told the U.S. Senate that AIDS and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa are making each other worse. The testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee comes as the World Health...
UN Experts in Iraq to Study Early Elections Kirk Troy A United Nations fact-finding team arrived in Iraq Saturday to decide if the country would be ready for general elections this summer. As the U.N....
Experts Study Possible Human-to-Human Bird Flu Case in Vietnam Katherine Maria The World Health Organization says experts looking at human cases of bird flu cannot rule out the possibility that it spr...
Officials, Experts Wind Up Bird Flu Conference in Thailand Scott Bobb Asian ministers and international health experts are ending a meeting in Thailand aimed at halting the spread of the bird flu viru...