Pakistani officials have quietly begun consulting with other nations about the conduct of their investigation into opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's killing, despite a public insistence that they need no foreign help, U.S. officials say. ...more

December 30, 2007

Belgian authorities detained 14 people Friday whom they described as Islamic extremists planning to use explosives to free a supporter of al-Qaida who is imprisoned for plotting an attack on a Belgian air base. The authorities said raids in 15 locations, mostly in Brussels, had turned up explosives and arms. ...more

December 23, 2007

Iraq's Shiite-led government declared Saturday that after restive areas are calmed it will disband Sunni groups battling Islamic extremists because it does not want them to become a separate military force. ...more

December 23, 2007

Police arrested a group of men planning to attack holy sites around Mecca during the just-completed annual Muslim pilgrimage, the Saudi Interior Ministry said Friday. ...more

December 22, 2007

More than 3,000 people jailed under emergency rule have been released, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday, the latest sign that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was rolling back some of the harsher measures taken against his opponents. ...more

November 21, 2007

A least 30 bodies were discovered in an unfinished west Baghdad house Saturday as police and local citizens groups probed neighborhoods that they said until recently were under the control of militants from al-Qaida in Iraq. ...more

November 18, 2007

BAGHLANI-JADID, Afghanistan - Up to two-thirds of the 77 people killed and 100 wounded in a suicide bombing Nov. 6 were hit by bullets from visiting lawmakers' panicked bodyguards, who fired on a crowd of mostly schoolchildren for up to five minutes, a preliminary U.N. report says. ...more

November 18, 2007

Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in a shooting last week that left 11 people dead, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday. ...more

September 23, 2007

For the mother of Scott Helvenston, the Iraqi government's decision Monday to banish security firm Blackwater USA came nearly four years too late. ...more

September 18, 2007