military and defense

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The scene had echoes of the Paris attacks: A bustling shopping area shaken by the blasts of suicide bombers and gunfire as o...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — All 10 U.S. Navy sailors detained by Iran after their two small boats allegedly drifted into Iranian territorial waters around one...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Four countries __ Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States __ were cloistered away late into the night Monday trying to lay...

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A massive truck bomb exploded near a police base in the western Libyan town of Zliten on Thursday, killing at least 60 policemen...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union on Thursday complained that Turkey wasn't doing enough to significantly decrease the number of people making the d...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea plans to retaliate for North Korea's nuclear test by starting broadcasts of anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — With extremists finding fertile ground for recruitment online, the White House is dispatching top national security officials...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The latest on North Korea's announcement that it conducted a hydrogen bomb test Wednesday (all times Seoul): 5:31 a.m. Thurs...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Soon after the ground shook around its nuclear testing facility, North Korea trumpeted its first hydrogen bomb test — a self...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch foreign minister has called an international conference next week to discuss the global "fight against terror....

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — When the U.S. wanted to show the world it didn't recognize what it called China's "excessive" territorial claims in disput...

PATHANKOT, India (AP) — Indian troops were still battling at least two gunmen Sunday night at an air force base near the border with Pakistan, more th...

PARIS (AP) — A man rammed his car into four soldiers guarding a mosque on Friday in the southeast French city of Valence, but was stopped when a soldi...

PARIS (AP) — In Bangkok, police-flanked partygoers rang in the new year at the site of a deadly bombing that took place just months ago. In Paris, res...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday his committee will look into a report the U.S. spied on the Israeli ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Uniformed police and U.S. military service officers lined the streets of Manhattan on Wednesday for the funeral for a U.S. soldier and...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Late in a life lived unnervingly near the nuclear abyss, William J. Perry is on a mission to warn of a "real and growing danger" of ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A leading figure of the North African affiliate of al-Qaida has been killed in an ambush by Algerian soldiers, one of 109 terr...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed on Sunday to meet with U.S. and Chinese officials in the first weeks of the new year to disc...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces booby trapped a cluster of farm buildings in the southern Daraa province and detonated the explosives as severa...