While foreign diplomats hope upcoming elections willchangethingsin Afghanistan, many Afghans are voting with their feet. ...more

July 6, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI, welcomed to the sweltering Angolan capital of Luanda on Friday by the biggest crowds of his African pilgrimage, condemned sexual violence against women in Africa and chided those countries on the continent that have approved abortion. ...more

March 21, 2009

The 387th Transportation Detachment, an Army Reserve unit stationed in Tampa, have returned from their yearlong deployment supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. ...more

March 14, 2009

Sudan's president threatened to kick out more aid groups and expel diplomats and peacekeepers Sunday during his first trip to Darfur after an international court issued an arrest warrant against him for war crimes there. ...more

March 9, 2009

As I got ready for an overseas trip this month, I did the things diplomats normally do: I made last-minute calls, prepared notes from meetings, packed briefing materials and travel documents. Then I did something that reflects how the world of public diplomacy is changing to adapt to the digital age: I sent a tweet. ...more

December 27, 2008

In a methodical execution-style attack, gunmen with automatic weapons cornered and killed an American aid worker and his Pakistani driver Wednesday in the capital of Pakistan's volatile northwest region. ...more

November 13, 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 Bush administration is nearing a decision to remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist and may do so as early as Friday in a bid to salvage faltering nuclear disarmament talks, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

October 9, 2008

North Korea escalated its renewed confrontation with the United States on Friday, saying it is moving to restore a nuclear reactor and warning it "will go its own way" because Washington refuses to remove it from the U.S. terror blacklist. ...more

September 20, 2008

If you had a high opinion of Sarah Palin before Thursday's interview with ABC News, you probably still do. If you had thought she is not qualified to be president, the sit-down probably confirmed that judgment. ...more

September 17, 2008