A Moroccan prisoner released from Guantanamo in 2004 was Osama bin Laden’s top bodyguard, according to testimony Thursday in the war crimes trial of another...

A Swiss-led, five-nation panel proposed Thursday that the United Nations assert itself as leader of a global fight against terrorism and establish a new agency or...

A man who served 32 years in a U.S. prison for hijacking a plane and planting a bomb that killed a policeman returned home to Croatia on Thursday after being paroled.

A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks...

Police say a boy stabbed and killed a 9-year-old girl in front of her classmates and teacher at an elementary school in Suriname.

A court sentenced one of Argentina’s most feared former military leaders to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four...

In a July 23 story about Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s trip to Darfur, The Associated Press erroneously reported that it was his first visit to the western...

France’s military will slash its ranks by 54,000 personnel and close dozens of air, army and other bases in an overhaul meant to slim forces at home while making...

Just two weeks before the start of the Olympics, Iraq was told Thursday it’s not welcome in Beijing because of a political feud in Baghdad that angered the...

An Argentine court has sentenced a former army chief to life in prison for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four activists.

A female suicide bomber blew herself up near U.S.-allied Sunni Arab fighters walking in a crowded area of Baqouba, killing at least eight of the guards and wounding 24...

The publisher of a book critical of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s regime says the book has been banned in Egypt.

A Peruvian model and showgirl is facing a criminal investigation for posing naked sitting atop the country’s red-and-white flag.

A captured driver for Osama bin Laden did not fully cooperate with efforts to find the terrorist leader, FBI agents said Thursday, countering defense claims that he...

A Dutch woman watched her husband and three children fall to their deaths Thursday while climbing near Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak, Italian rescuers said.

Business travel appears to be the latest victim of China’s ever-tightening security crackdown before the Beijing Olympics.

Iraqi police say at least eight people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a checkpoint manned by U.S.-allied Sunni guards northeast of Baghdad.

NATO’s secretary general said Thursday that Pakistan must be involved in international attempts to end cross-border attacks into Afghanistan, calling for a...

A Dutch man, his son and two daughters fell to their deaths Thursday while climbing near Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak, Italian rescuers said.

Insurgents attacked an Afghan military convoy Thursday in southern Afghanistan and dozens of militants were killed after the army called for assistance from the...