Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted its trucks immediately after a deadly September shooting in Baghdad, making it difficult to determine whether enemy gunfire provoked the attack, said people familiar with the government investigation of the incident. ...more

January 13, 2008

Six French charity workers sentenced to eight years' forced labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children were transferred to France on Friday, judicial officials said. ...more

December 29, 2007

N'DJAMENA, Chad - A Chadian court convicted six French aid workers of trying to kidnap 103 African children and sentenced them Wednesday to eight years of forced labor. ...more

December 27, 2007

As an Army surgeon in the Middle East, Keith Rose watched a colleague bleed to death when a truck in his convoy was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade. ...more

December 26, 2007

Under extraordinarily tight security, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to her ancestral homeland Saturday in her first major move since a recent assassination attempt against her claimed 140 lives. ...more

October 28, 2007

Authorities sifting through clues in the devastating bombing of Benazir Bhutto's homecoming procession here questioned three men Saturday, a source close to the investigation said. ...more

October 21, 2007

Two powerful bombs detonated next to a truck carrying former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto late Thursday, just hours after she returned from exile to a triumphal homecoming. More than 120 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in one of Pakistan's worst episodes of political violence. ...more

October 19, 2007

Guards working for an Australian-owned security company fired on a car as it approached their convoy Tuesday, killing two female civilians before speeding away from the latest bloodshed blamed on the deadly mix of heavily armed protection details on Baghdad's crowded streets. ...more

October 10, 2007

A daring ambush of bombs and gunfire left Poland's ambassador burned and pinned down in a flaming vehicle Wednesday before he was pulled to safety and airlifted in a rescue mission by the embattled security company Blackwater USA. ...more

October 4, 2007

In early 1942, the United States had just entered World War II, and I was in the Canadian Navy, serving on the HMCS Fennel, a patrol and escort vessel known as a corvette. ...more

September 11, 2007