It seems as though each day brings new horrors and heartbreaks in the Holy Land. More than 1,000 dead. Gazan children blown up on the beach. A U.N. shelter hit. Two-thirds of Israelis living in fear from indiscriminate rocket fire launched by Hamas. But as ...

July 26, 2014 5:53 AM EDT — A 12-hour humanitarian truce began on Saturday after Israel and Palestinian militant groups agreed to appeals by the U.N. The number of Palestinian casualties has risen to 881, most of them civilians, since the start of the ...

July 26, 2014 5:53 AM EDT — A 12-hour humanitarian truce began on Saturday after Israel and Palestinian militant groups agreed to appeals by the U.N. The number of Palestinian casualties has risen to 881, most of them civilians, since the start of the ...

My first book was about economic sanctions. Back when I wrote it, sanctions were seen as kind of a backwater in international relations scholarship. Now, with Ukraine and Iran and the South China Sea and East China Sea and such, things have clearly ...

KABUL — A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle packed with explosives detonated inside a security compound in the Afghan capital Tuesday, killing four foreigners and injuring dozens more, police said. The attack, in the Qassaba district near Kabul ...

When Jyllene Edwards Wilson had a problem –a cold, an ache or odd pains –she called her ob/gyn of 20 years. When he changed offices, she followed him.When she and her husband's hopes of conceiving a child ended in an ectopic pregnancy, the doctor ...

GAZA CITY — Israeli forces backed by artillery barrages and airstrikes launched a major ground offensive into Gaza late Thursday, marking a dramatic escalation of the 10-day-old conflict with the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Spokesmen for the Israel ...

The Obama administration on Thursday voiced its strongest caution yet to Israel not to take the bombardment of Gaza too far. “We are increasingly concerned about the safety and security of civilians on both sides. We continue to urge all parties to do all they ...

___. Microsoft cutting 18,000 jobs, signals new path. LOS ANGELES — Microsoft announced the biggest layoffs in its 39-year history Thursday, outlining plans to cut 18,000 jobs in a move that marked the CEO's sharpest pivot yet away from his predecessor's ...

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin: Ukraine bears responsibility for crash of Malaysian airliner. Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Share on Facebook ...

HOYLAKE, England — When he stepped off the second green Thursday morning — a poor fairway shot at the first and a three-putt on No. 2 just behind him — Tiger Woods's return to major championship play looked every bit to be a struggle. Royal Liverpool ...

HOYLAKE, England — Police say a man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after allegedly taking a golf cart from the course staging the British Open and driving it into a security guard. The incident occurred at about 7.30 p.m. local time (1830 GMT) on ...

JOHANNESBURG — Severe turbulence struck a South African Airways plane that was heading to Hong Kong, injuring 20 people before the aircraft landed safely on Wednesday, the airline said. Medics were waiting at the Hong Kong airport to assist ...

VIENNA — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up two days of intense talks with his Iranian counterpart Tuesday about the country's nuclear program, speaking of “tangible progress,” but also of significant gaps separating the two sides. The parties are ...

BAGHDAD — Government forces and allied Sunni tribal fighters battled to dislodge militants from a small town along the Tigris River on Monday, while authorities discovered 12 bloated bodies with gunshots to the head near a village north of the capital, ...

MOSCOW — Russia's political establishment intensified calls to answer a weekend cross-border shelling incident with targeted strikes on Ukraine, as investigators said Monday that they could prove Ukrainian forces had deliberately attacked Russian territory.

BAGHDAD — Iraq's deadlocked parliament ended its second session after just 30 minutes Sunday without making any progress toward forming a new government that can unite the country and confront the Sunni militant blitz that has seized control of a huge ...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden has offered condolences to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko over killings in eastern Ukraine. At last four people were killed by artillery fire in an overnight attack Saturday in Maryinka, a suburb of Donetsk ...

BAGHDAD — The Sunni worshippers who visit the main mosque in this relatively affluent neighborhood of west Baghdad are a far cry from Islamist extremists. “We are intellectuals,” the mosque's imam, Aday Moussa, said of a group that includes doctors, ...

BERLIN — Germany has asked the CIA station chief in the country to leave the country, an unusual action among allies that is a very public expression of anger over reported cases of U.S. spying in the country. “The representative of the U.S. intelligence ...