A United Nations human rights envoy entered Myanmar for the first time in four years Sunday on a mission to uncover how many people were killed and detained since September's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. ...more

November 12, 2007

The United Nations envoy to Myanmar opened his second visit in recent weeks by meeting Saturday with the top U.N. diplomat in the country, whom the regime just said it wanted to expel. ...more

November 4, 2007

Myanmar's military government ordered the expulsion of the top U.N. diplomat in the country Friday in response to the envoy's criticism of the regime. ...more

November 3, 2007

Many former militia commanders and residents in northern Afghanistan have been hoarding illegal weapons in violation of the country's disarmament laws, giving the excuse that they face a spreading Taliban insurgency from the south that government forces alone are too frail to stop, Afghan and Western officials say. ...more

October 28, 2007

The State Department said Friday it will require some diplomats to serve in Iraq because of a lack of volunteers willing to work at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. ...more

October 27, 2007

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday ordered new measures to improve oversight of private guards who protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq, including tighter rules of engagement and a board to investigate any killings. ...more

October 24, 2007

Members of Congress need to guard against political grandstanding, but they are right to investigate a private security firm accused of opening fire on innocent Iraqis last month and committing other misdeeds. ...more

October 5, 2007

The chairman of the Blackwater private security firm said Tuesday that guards working for his company have 'acted appropriately at all times' while protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq and he accused critics of making 'baseless allegations of wrongdoing' against them. ...more

October 3, 2007