ON THE ISRAELI-GAZA BORDER - Israeli troops and tanks, protected by heavy air, sea and artillery fire, sliced through the center of Gaza on Sunday, taking control of rocket-launching areas and surrounding the main city, as their government rebuffed diplomatic efforts to end the nine-day assault. ...more

January 5, 2009

Getting that house, home addition, commercial building, pool or even a shed constructed in a manner that's code compliant and safe for the consumer is the number-one concern for long-time Sebring resident Charles "Ed" White. ...more

November 10, 2008

The Taliban beheaded their relatives and terrorized their villages. Now army airstrikes are killing the innocent, say refugees who fled fighting set off by a Pakistani military offensive against the Islamic extremists. ...more

October 24, 2008

A decade ago, Kosovo rumbled with artillery fire as ethnic Albanian separatists battled Serbian forces. On Sunday, the booms came from celebratory fireworks after parliament declared independence - a final act of defiance that dismantled the last remnant of the former Yugoslavia. ...more

February 18, 2008

Two Turkish airstrikes this month destroyed more than 200 Kurdish rebel targets in the mountains of northern Iraq, killing hundreds of insurgents, the military said Tuesday. ...more

December 26, 2007