MOSCOW--Russian officials responded coolly Wednesday to President Barack Obama's call for further reductions to the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.
"We cannot allow the balance of the strategic deterrence system to be broken, or the ...
LOS ANGELES -- Slim Whitman, a country pop singer whose forlorn wail influenced a generation of vocalists in the early 1950s, has died at age 90.
Whitman, born in Tampa, Fla., was a regular on the influential country radio program "The Louisiana ...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Less than a day after the Taliban opened a new political office in Qatar, the prospects for peace talks that it represented for war-weary Afghanistan faltered.
The Afghan government said Wednesday that it wouldn't send ...
KABUL--Underscoring Afghan President Hamid Karzai's reputation in Washington as a mercurial U.S. ally, the Karzai administration suspended security talks with the United States on Wednesday, apparently without warning, a day before U.S. officials ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- At least 15 people died when an al-Qaida-linked militia attacked a U.N. compound here Wednesday, government officials said.
The dead included the attackers and four foreigners, including two South African deminers who worked...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Vince Flynn, the New York Times best-selling author of 14 thrillers and mysteries, has died of prostate cancer. He was 47.
Flynn was born in St. Paul, Minn., and graduated from St. Thomas Military Academy High School and the ...