The Bush administration on Saturday blamed the more than week-old onslaught in the Gaza Strip squarely on Hamas militants, but did not mention the invasion of Israeli ground troops into Gaza and avoided any criticism of Israel despite mounting world outrage over the growing death toll. ...more

January 4, 2009

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli tanks and infantry pushed into Gaza after nightfall Saturday, launching a much anticipated ground offensive in a widening war on Gaza's Hamas rulers. ...more

January 3, 2009

On the eighth day of Israel's air assault on Hamas, Israeli ground troops – as many as 10,000 – began moving into in Gaza. Meanwhile closer to home, protesters took to the streets Saturday night in front of BayWalk denouncing the attacks. ...more

January 3, 2009

Israel allowed several hundred Palestinians with foreign passports to flee Gaza on Friday, even as its warplanes bombed a mosque it said was used to store weapons and destroyed homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives. ...more

January 3, 2009

Israeli warplanes pressing one of Israel's deadliest assaults ever on Palestinian militants dropped bombs and missiles on a top security installation, a mosque, a TV station and dozens of other targets across the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday. ...more

December 28, 2008

The United Nations' special envoy to Congo chided Congo's main rebel leader during a second round of peace talks Saturday for breaking a cease-fire, according to video footage taken inside the closed-door meeting. ...more

November 30, 2008

Rebels and pro-government militia troops executed civilians this week in two waves of terror that the top U.N envoy to Congo said Saturday amount to war crimes - ones that highlight the inability of undermanned U.N. peacekeepers to protect civilians. ...more

November 9, 2008

Villagers who fled fighting in this rebel-held town trickled home Thursday to find bodies of more than a dozen men in civilian clothes. They accused rebel leader Laurent Nkunda's forces of the slayings. ...more

November 7, 2008

When Congo shakes, Africa trembles. This vast linchpin of a country at the green heart of the continent, covering 905,000 square miles and bordering nine nations, never goes down alone. ...more

November 3, 2008

The conflict in eastern Congo is being fueled and funded by a tussle for control of minerals that end up in cell phones, laptops and other electronics - deepening the stakes in a war that sprung out of festering hatreds from the Rwandan genocide. ...more

November 3, 2008