Thirty years ago this week, the Red Army began its invasion of Afghanistan, a move that sank the Soviet Union in a decade of guerrilla war and hastened the collapse of...

he policy by Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo III was instituted on Nov. 4, but it has triggered outrage among women’s groups since it became publicly known in recent...

Rudy Giuliani is out. Out of the New York Senate race, and for all practical purposes out of politics. He has been with us for more than a quarter century. * Our...

Amongst other issues facing Pakistan today is the aftermath of the December 16th decision given by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The decision given by the 17-member...

Two sheriff’s officers responding to a domestic dispute were wounded and a 35-year-old man was killed Monday after he opened fire on the officers at a home in...

Simon Monjack said that his wife of two years had been suffering from laryngitis and was “tired” after working on two films, but there was nothing to...

The world’s biggest face transplant programme is being set up in Boston for veterans left severely deformed after surviving horrific war injuries in Iraq and...

A court in the US has for the first time charged suspected members of al-Qaeda with plotting to traffic cocaine in order to fund terrorism. The three suspects, who are...

Pakistan will not go as far as Washington wants, and there’s nothing the U.S. can do about it: That’s the sobering reality as the U.S. tries to persuade a...

California’s death row has swollen to 697 inmates, with 29 new death sentences in the state this year, despite a nationwide trend that in 2009 saw the fewest...

The Democratic Party’s decades-long push to remake the U.S. health care system cleared a major hurdle early Monday morning, with the Senate voting to advance a...

The Army general commanding U.S. forces in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of prohibitions for personnel under his command. The policy, which went into...

At first, Luis F. Alarid seemed well on his way to becoming a customs agency success story. He had risen from a childhood of poverty and foster homes, some of them...

The anxiety and anger have been building all year. In March, a national coalition of Islamic organizations warned that it would cease cooperating with the F.B.I. unless...

his son and grandson were shot to death in a Manhattan apartment by a man who wounded the youngest victim’s mother before falling to his death from a fire escape,...

If President Obama’s health-care initiative fails, there is no longer a rationale for being a liberal in the United States. Everything else on liberalism’s...

I wonder should I laugh or cry at the news that the visa of Headley & Rana have been canceled. As if they will be ever permitted to visit India officially. By the...

More specifically, how we define privacy in our texting, tweeting, Facebooking, YouTubing, Googling era. Earlier this month, after Sprint, Verizon and Yahoo were...

These days, it seems like everyone is talking in earnest about marijuana legalization, once dismissed as little more than a Cheech and Chong pipe dream. Indeed, a new...

Even near military bases, female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t often offered a drink on the house as a welcome home. More than 230,000...