SEATTLE -- The two had known each other less than three weeks when they found themselves inside helicopters about to land off a Cambodian island, and were easy targets for a firestorm of Khmer Rouge bullets and rocket-propelled grenades.
One ...
WASHINGTON -- Early this year, Leticia Perez and her husband flew here for a whirlwind 48 hours. The couple dined at the Italian Embassy, visited the Lincoln Memorial and joined the crowd on the National Mall watching as President Barack Obama was...
WASHINGTON -- With its neat rows of carpeted cabins, security monitors and on-site hospital and school, the Mrigb al-Fuhud camp in Jordan is opulent compared with the squalid tent cities that house other Syrian refugees.
Humanitarian workers, ...
WASHINGTON -- A funny thing happened on the way to a predicted disaster: The Pentagon is learning to live with the automatic budget cuts its leaders had warned would threaten national security if they took effect.
The change from near-hysteria to...
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Leftist rebel Reinel Usuga surrendered this month because he was afraid of dying in battle and being buried in an unmarked grave even as rebel leaders negotiate a possible peace agreement that would make such a death pointless ...
BALTIMORE--Some of springtime's more notable heralds appear to be fading away, as a new study finds frogs, toads and salamanders disappearing at an alarming rate across the United States.
In what they say is the first analysis of its kind, ...